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Death be not proud : the art of holy attention / David Marno.
LIBRA PR2247.H663 M37 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marno, David, author.
- Series:
- Class 200, new studies in religion
- Class 200 new studies in religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Donne, John, 1572-1631. Holy sonnets.
- Donne, John.
- Donne, John, 1572-1631. Holy sonnets. Death be not proud.
- Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Christian poetry, English.
- Death in literature.
- Prayer.
- Attention--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Attention.
- Christian poetry, English--Early modern.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 315 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud explores the precedents of Malebranche's advice by reading John Donne's poetic prayers in the context of what David Marno calls the "art of holy attention." If, in Malebranche's view, attention is a hidden bond between religion and philosophy, devotional poetry is the area where this bond becomes visible. Marno shows that in works like "Death, be not proud," Donne's most triumphant poem about the resurrection, the goal is to allow the poem's speaker to experience a given doctrine as his own thought, as an idea occurring to him. But while the thought must feel like an unexpected event for the speaker, the poem itself is a careful preparation for it. And the key to this preparation is attention, the only state in which the speaker can perceive the doctrine as a cognitive gift."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The pistis of the poem
- The thanksgiving machine
- Distracted prayers
- Attention exercises
- Extentus
- Sarcasmos
- The spiritual body
- Coda : the extent of attention.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-302) and index.
- Conference on Christianity & Literature Book of the Year Award, Winner, 2017
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780226415970
- 022641597X
- OCLC:
- 944087635
- Publisher Number:
- 40026692386
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