Christina Rossetti’s ‘Wounded Speech’

Christina Rossetti’s religious poems have received much recent critical attention as aesthetic objects, historical documents and even as theological statements. I argue that those poems that are prayers should be read as ‘wounded speech’ as Jean-Louis Chrétien described, prayers that recognised the...

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Main Author: Westerholm, Joel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2010
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 345-359
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