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Dancing before the Lord: Renaissance...

Wright, Jarrell D.

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Dancing before the Lord: Renaissance ludics and incarnational discourse.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Dancing before the Lord: Renaissance ludics and incarnational discourse./
作者:	Wright, Jarrell D.
面頁冊數:	390 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
標題:	English literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3725605
ISBN:	9781339099613

Dancing before the Lord: Renaissance ludics and incarnational discourse.
Wright, Jarrell D.

Dancing before the Lord: Renaissance ludics and incarnational discourse. - 390 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2015.

Play is a manifestation of overflowing excess. When applied to the study of discourse, this bounty can be understood in terms of figurativeness and depth. If "degree-zero" discourse is the almost entirely unfigured language of an instruction manual, then verse lies near the other extreme: highly figured and elaborate language open to rich interpretive possibilities. I posit a further pole yet on this continuum: the hyperabundant texts of the Renaissance, when ludics were at a height partially quashed by the Enlightenment preference for the plain style. These ludic texts are not merely decorative but rather reflect the incarnational impulse of Renaissance Christian thought; they attempt to praise and to imitate the power of Divine language, in which Word is made Flesh in the West's master model of superabundance, grace through Christ's Incarnation and Sacrifice.

ISBN: 9781339099613Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

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520 $a This project conducts three case studies of playfully incarnational discourses during the Renaissance: in speech, in imagery, and in verse. First, it analyzes sermons by John Donne that reflect candidly on the power of Donne's own ludic speech, concluding that his transgressive, gamelike rhetoric was oriented toward stimulating responsive action. Next, it examines period images through the lens of contemporary popular works that conceive of images as puzzles to be decoded, solved, and read, concluding that period anamorphoses and similar works were efforts to infuse images with lively presence in a way that helps to account for iconophobic and iconophilic strains in English Reformation thought. Finally, it reads George Herbert's deceptively simple poem, "The Altar," examining how the piece may be understood as an intervention into the shaped-verse tradition and how it reflects on period debates about Church fabric, concluding that the toylike or tricklike construction evokes the Eucharistic presence of the Divine in Herbert's worshipful meditation.
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