270 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
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Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethical, cultural and political individualism. In this title, first published in 1986, Thomas Docherty challenges this with a more rigorously theoretical reading of Donne, particularly in relation to the... Read more
A Note on the Text; Introduction: Undoing Donne; Section I: Problems and Paradoxes 1. Displacement and Eccentricity: The Struggle with History 2. The Problem of Women: Authority, Power, Communication 3. Crisis and Hypocrisis: The Failure of Representation 4. Identity and Difference: Individuality Betrayed; Section II: Therapies and (ir)resolutions 5. Play, Poetry, Prayer: The ‘Vocation’ of ‘Donne’ 6. Donne’s Praise of Folly 7. Writing as Therapy: A fishy Tale and a Diet of Worms; Index
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Thomas Docherty
