Transubstantiating Bottom: Eucharistic Weavings in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This article offers Nick Bottom, the donkey-headed weaver of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a textual and performative site that echoes and amplifies Eucharistic theologies. It interprets him, and Shakespeare’s comedy, alongside Reformation theology and current phenomenology, especially Jean-Luc Mari...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Christianity & literature
Ano: 2020, Volume: 69, Número: 3, Páginas: 358-377 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | CD Cristianismo ; Cultura KAG Reforma KBF Ilhas Britânicas NBP Sacramento |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Phenomenology
B Shakespeare B English Reformation B Eucharist B Sacramental Theology |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Resumo: | This article offers Nick Bottom, the donkey-headed weaver of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a textual and performative site that echoes and amplifies Eucharistic theologies. It interprets him, and Shakespeare’s comedy, alongside Reformation theology and current phenomenology, especially Jean-Luc Marion’s concept of saturated phenomena. Bottom and the Eucharist are signs, but they frustrate interpretive methods grounded in sense perception. Instead, they inaugurate unreasonable and transformative encounters of love. While this article contributes to the study of England’s religious and cultural history, more crucially, it offers a contemporary spiritual hermeneutic for interpreting the sacramental poetics of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2020.0038 |
