Lyric Autobiography: John Donne's Holy Sonnets
In her admirable study of autobiography, Janet Varner Gunn argued that the religious significance of the form “lies not in its literary function but in its anthropology,” that is, in its role in articulating and creating human experience. She also stated that much literary discussion of autobiograph...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1993
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1993, Volume: 86, Issue: 3, Pages: 293-307 |
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| Summary: | In her admirable study of autobiography, Janet Varner Gunn argued that the religious significance of the form “lies not in its literary function but in its anthropology,” that is, in its role in articulating and creating human experience. She also stated that much literary discussion of autobiography serves to conceal its “strangeness” and “unruly behavior.” |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000031242 |