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Hasselbach, Sara Elizabeth.

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The Passion of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry: Crashaw, Donne, Herbert, Lanyer.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Passion of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry: Crashaw, Donne, Herbert, Lanyer./
Author:	Hasselbach, Sara Elizabeth.
Description:	264 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3728536
ISBN:	9781339140384

The Passion of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry: Crashaw, Donne, Herbert, Lanyer.
Hasselbach, Sara Elizabeth.

The Passion of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry: Crashaw, Donne, Herbert, Lanyer. - 264 p.

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

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2015.

The Passion of Christ explores how early modern poetry engages with the challenges of representing Christ's sacrifice. As Debora Shuger observes in The Renaissance Bible, Passion narratives "seemed to draw into themselves a wildly problematic and complex range of cultural issues. They are haunted by questions of selfhood, violence, gender, and history and provide the symbolic forms for such speculations" (8). As much as the works "draw" the issues "into themselves," however, they also reflect and respond to them. Post-Reformation English poets write within a religious climate of disruption, since the foundational tenets of the Protestant Reformation---the authority of written vernacular Scripture and the trust in faith and grace in effecting salvation---conflict with the Catholic belief in works and ritual practices. Through rhetorical readings of works by representative poets, I analyze how Passion poetry serves as a site of expressive negotiation for poets who seek to establish their complicated religious identities. Not surprisingly, representations of the Passion generate meanings as contradictory as the event itself: failure implies success, interpretation replaces Word, and imitation becomes creation.

ISBN: 9781339140384Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

The Passion of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry: Crashaw, Donne, Herbert, Lanyer.
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520 $a In my first chapter, I argue for a reevaluation of Richard Crashaw's Passion poems as exercises in didacticism: as deliberate, self-conscious, instructive expressions of Christ's narrative, rather than as effusive, uncontained outpourings of Catholic extravagance. Responding to recent critical efforts to situate Crashaw's works within a masculine mode, I see his affective engagement as drawing instead from female medieval mystical devotion. My second chapter on John Donne (a convert in the opposite direction) considers the project of poetic self-fashioning in the context of changing speakers and a shifting self. Holding steady the event of the Passion underscores the uneasy, uneven relationship of Donne's speakers to this scene and highlights their dramatizations of identity formation. The third chapter on George Herbert more closely probes the practical and psychological problems of imitative expression: as language necessarily fails to articulate this inexpressible sacrifice, and as he struggles to reconcile language and art with purity of expression. I propose that Herbert develops an interactive version of imitatio Christi to expand the Reformed value of inwardness. Although critics focus on the social implications of Aemilia Lanyer's text, in the final chapter, I consider her work to be fundamentally religious. By reimagining the Passion narrative as a site of exclusively female compassion and strength, Lanyer insists upon women's obligation to interpret their religious history, validate their present, and shape their future.
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