Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of Sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England. By Gary Kuchar. (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies.) Pp. xii + 297. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2005. isbn 0 8207 0370 2. 58
In this dense but clearly written study Gary Kuchar offers a series of readings of seventeenth-century English devotional writing, in particular the poetry of Robert Southwell, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and Thomas Traherne. His concern is with the ways in which their work traces and responds to c...
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2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 376-378 |
| Review of: | Divine subjection (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, 2005) (Newey, Edmund)
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| Summary: | In this dense but clearly written study Gary Kuchar offers a series of readings of seventeenth-century English devotional writing, in particular the poetry of Robert Southwell, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and Thomas Traherne. His concern is with the ways in which their work traces and responds to currents of ‘desacralization’ in the early modern period. Seeking to move away from earlier scholarship's enquiry into the influences on the poetics of this period, Kuchar looks instead at the rhetorical ends these works have in sight, the ways in which they construct an ideal devotional subject. The theoretical framework he employs here is largely psychoanalytical, guided especially by Althusser and Lacan, but also by contemporary figures such as Kristeva and Žižek. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj044 |