Theologies of language in English renaissance literature : reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / James S. Baumlin.
Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of.
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- ISBN: 0739169602
- ISBN: 0739169610
- ISBN: 1282134000
- ISBN: 9780739169605
- ISBN: 9780739169612
- ISBN: 9781282134003
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, �2012.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:july.20 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
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