Costly Monuments : Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry / Barbara Leah Harman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harman, Barbara Leah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herbert, George, 1593-1633--Criticism and interpretation.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

Self in literature.

Local Subjects:

Herbert, George, 1593-1633--Criticism and interpretation.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years George Herbert's poetry has been analyzed by some of our most distinguished literary critics. Offering close readings of central poems, and insights derived from contemporary literary theory, Barbara Harman takes her place in their company. She begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between critical practice and belief. The impulse toward self-representation is, she argues, a powerful one in Herbert's work, and it is also an impulse thwarted and redesigned in extraordinary ways. In poems Harman calls fictions of coherence and "chronicles of dissolution," speakers both protect and dismantle their own narratives, and because they do they raise questions about the values we attach to stories and about the difficulties we undergo when stories fail to represent us in traditional ways.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE CRITICAL CONTROVERSY

part one. FICTIONS OF COHERENCE

chapter 1. "SO DID I WEAVE MY SELF INTO THE SENSE"

chapter 2. COLLAPSING PERSONAL STORIES

chapter 3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BEYOND

part two. CHRONICLES OF DISSOLUTION

chapter 4. "NO CONTINUING CITTY"

chapter 5. THE DISSOLUTION OF BODIES AND STORIES

CONCLUSION: THE BIBLE AS COUNTERTEXT

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-49733-3

OCLC:

1013960805