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John Donne

edited by Andrew Mousley

(New casebooks)

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1999

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  • uk : pbk
  • : us

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Contemporary critical essays

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Bibliography: p. 217-223

Description and Table of Contents

Description

John Donne's poetry is provocatively illuminated in this new collection of essays. The recently influential critical methods of historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction are variously employed to explore Donne's ambivalent relationship to language, women, love, self, God and society. New critical approaches do not dominate the volume, however. Older forms of criticism are also represented, so that the old and the new may illuminate and interrogate each other. The introduction explicitly foregrounds some of the key differences and continuities between old and new versions of literary criticism, exploring the ideas and assumptions underlying each and offering insights into Donne in relation to them.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction
  • A.Mousley.- 'Oh, Let Mee Not Serve So': The Politics of Love in Donne's Elegies
  • A.Guibbory.- 'Nothing Sooner Broke': Donne's Songs and Sonnets as Self-Consuming Artifact
  • T.Rajan.- John Donne's World of Desire
  • C.Belsey.- Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics
  • B.Estrin.- The Lyric in the Field of Information: Autopoiesis and History in Donne's Songs and Sonnets
  • R.Halpern.- 'Darke Texts Needs Notes': Versions of Self in Donne's Verse Epistles
  • D.Aers and G.Kress.- Matrix as Metaphor: Midwifery and the Conception of Voice
  • E.Harvey.- Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power
  • S.Fish.- The 'Figura' of the Martyr in John Donne's Sermons
  • N.Wright.- The Fearful Accommodations of John Donne
  • W.Kerrigan.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

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