Guillaume Grumsel and the Poetics of Eucharistic Desire: $hAdam Glover
In this article, I examine a collection of eucharistic elegies entitled Iucundi sacrae synaxeos amores (The Delightful Loves of the Sacred Synaxis, 1659) by the seventeenth-century Neo-Latin poet and Jesuit theologian Guillaume Grumsel (1607-1680). Taking my lead from a series of revealing allusions...
| Pubblicato in: | Christianity & literature |
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2019]
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Christianity & literature
Anno: 2019, Volume: 68, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 650-680 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | CD Cristianesimo; cultura KAH Età moderna NBP Sacramento |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Jesuit
B erotic elegy B neo-Latin poetry B Eucharistic Theology B Guillaume Grumsel |
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| Riepilogo: | In this article, I examine a collection of eucharistic elegies entitled Iucundi sacrae synaxeos amores (The Delightful Loves of the Sacred Synaxis, 1659) by the seventeenth-century Neo-Latin poet and Jesuit theologian Guillaume Grumsel (1607-1680). Taking my lead from a series of revealing allusions to Ovid's Amores, I argue that Grumsel articulates a "poetics of eucharistic desire" according to which the process of poetic meaning-making is itself deeply implicated in the eroticism that characterizes the sacrament of the Eucharist. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333119852187 |