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Holy ambition : rhetoric, courtship, and devotion in the sermons of John Donne / Brent Nelson.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Brent, 1966-
- Series:
- Medieval Rennaissance texts and studies ; v. 284.
- Medieval Rennaissance texts and studies ; v. 284
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sermons, English--17th century.
- Sermons, English.
- Donne, John, 1572-1631.
- Donne, John.
- Courtship--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Courtship.
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
- Contents:
- The courtship topos
- "Like an angel from a cloud": Donne and courtship as a topic of Inventio
- Courtship and the Dispositio of form
- Courtship and the discourse of prodigality in Donne's Sermon on Isaiah 52:3
- Courting death: symbolic purification in Donne's sermon "preached to the Lords upon Easter-day," 1619
- Form as proof in Deaths duell (Psalm 68:20).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0866983279
- OCLC:
- 58054855
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