"In forgetting thou rememb'rest right": Metaphor and Mis-devotion in John Donne's Songs and Sonnets
This article revisits the preoccupation with impermanence central to John Donne's Songs and Sonnets by considering how Donne's speakers describe themselves as embedded in unstable metaphors of their own making. The speakers in "The Relic" and "A Valediction of my Name in the...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Φόρτωση...
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| Στο/Στη: |
Christianity & literature
Έτος: 2019, Τόμος: 68, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 435-453 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CD Χριστιανισμός και Πολιτισμός KAH Εκκλησιαστική Ιστορία 1648-1913, Νεότερη Εποχή |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Songs and Sonnets
B Interaction B figuration B Endurance B mis-devotion B Metaphor B John Donne |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Σύνοψη: | This article revisits the preoccupation with impermanence central to John Donne's Songs and Sonnets by considering how Donne's speakers describe themselves as embedded in unstable metaphors of their own making. The speakers in "The Relic" and "A Valediction of my Name in the Window" use metaphor to navigate questions of romantic and erotic agency, deliberately metaphorizing themselves as a strategy for self-preservation that nonetheless renders them profoundly vulnerable. Their fears that their readers may misapprehend their metaphors - whether by accident or by design - are also legible, I argue, as concerns about the power that comes with understanding them correctly as metaphors. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333119827991 |
