Poetic Relations : Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation / Constance M. Furey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furey, Constance M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Protestant poetry, English.

Christian poetry, English--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English.

Devotional poetry--History and criticism.

Devotional poetry.

Interpersonal relations in literature.

Authorship in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Love in literature.

Self in literature.

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert, Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues, the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships. By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas, social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new ways of thinking about selfhood today-and a resource for reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

On Poetry

Introduction

1. Authorship

2. Friendship

3. Love

4. Marriage

Coda

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

Other Format:

Print version :

OCLC:

988326297