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John Donne was indisputably the foremost English preacher of his day. Many studies have focussed on his instructional methods; fewer have concentrated on how he tries to move his hearers. Donne especially liked preaching on the psalms. Since Christian antiquity, the seven psalms known as the penitential psalms have enjoyed a privileged place in church worship. They are central to the sacrament of penance. By Donne's time, changes in the Church of England's sacramental theology had all but eliminated the practice of penance. Nevertheless, Donne considers penance or, as it had become known, repentance, to be a crucial part of believers' lives. With his sermons on the penitential psalms Donne contributes to the vast body of literature surrounding the sacrament of penance, but his contribution is unique. He thinks that since the second person of the Trinity is identified with the Word of God, the institution of preaching God's Word is incarnational. In the sacraments, the priest ushers in the Body of Christ; in the sermon, Donne believes, the preacher's role is similar. For Donne, sermonizing is sacramental in effect. In his sermons he attempts to bring the real presence of God to his listeners. Moreover, his sermons display a "sacramental mimesis": they enact their subject matter by their very words and try to effect change in the listeners as the words are uttered. Further, Donne thinks that since God established all the ordinances of the church, none of them should be ignored. Therefore, Donne's twenty-one sermons on the penitential psalms reveal a preacher who is on the one hand a conservative churchman and on the other a startlingly innovative preacher.

This dissertation explores the influence of Reformation representational anxiety on early seventeenth-century poetic depictions of Christ. I study the poetic shift from physical to metaphorical portrayals of Christ that occurred after the English Reformation infused religious symbols and visual images with transgressive power. Contextualizing the juncture between visual and verbal representation, I examine the poetry alongside historical artifacts including paternosters, a painted glass window, an emblem, sermons, and the account of a state trial in order to trace signs of sensory “loss” in the verse of John Donne, George Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton. The introduction provides a historical and poetic overview of sixteenth-century influences on religious verse. The first chapter contrasts Donne’s sermons—which vividly describe Christ—with his poems, in which Christ’s face is often obscured or avoided. In the chapter on George Herbert’s The Temple, I show how Herbert’s initial, physical portraits of Christ increasingly give way to metaphorical images as the book progresses, paralleling the Reformation’s internalization of images. The third chapter shows that Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum makes use of pastoral conventions to fashion Christ as a shepherd-spouse, the divine object of desire. In the final chapter I argue that three poems from John Milton’s 1645 volume can be read as containing signs of Milton’s emerging Arianism. Depictions of Christ in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Lanyer, and Milton reveal the period’s contestation over images; the sensory strain of these metaphorical representations results in memorable, vivid verse.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1957. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-355).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on August 10, 2009). A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Comparative Literature. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2010. / Title from OhioLINK ETD abstract webpage (viewed May 17, 2010). Advisor: Susanna Fein. Keywords: Book of the Duchess; Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation; Pericles; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions; Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Thomas More; Donne; Bunyan; defenses against mortality.

Zugl.: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2009

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Christopher Hodgkins; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-33, p. 66-70).

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-06-02T19:08:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FrancisliCostaGaldino_DISSERT.pdf: 2173203 bytes, checksum: 4174d964da89b665dc24976efd66f741 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-06-05T19:09:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FrancisliCostaGaldino_DISSERT.pdf: 2173203 bytes, checksum: 4174d964da89b665dc24976efd66f741 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-05T19:09:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FrancisliCostaGaldino_DISSERT.pdf: 2173203 bytes, checksum: 4174d964da89b665dc24976efd66f741 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-25 / O objetivo desta pesquisa ? apresentar um estudo cr?tico sobre como se d?o as representa??es do feminino nos poemas er?ticos de John Donne (15721631), acreditando assim possibilitar uma melhor vis?o de como o feminino era visto pela sociedade Inglesa dos s?culos XV e XVI por meio das an?lises dos poemas e de suas representa??es. Neste sentido, essa pesquisa, de car?ter bibliogr?fico, anal?tico e interpretativo, se encontra justificada na relev?ncia que se d? a contextualiza??o do lugar e do espa?o do feminino em uma sociedade de uma ?poca de transforma??es e turbul?ncias sociais (fim do Renascimento, da Idade M?dia e contra-reforma religiosa). Tendo como cerne os estudos sobre no lugar do feminino na sociedade ocidental al?m de direcionar suas an?lises ao estudo dos poemas er?ticos, uma vez que as representa??es do feminino possuem tra?os mais marcantes nesse espa?o, tendo em vista toda a obra po?tica de Donne. Para isso, a pesquisa teve como orienta??o te?rica, prioritariamente, os estudos cr?ticos de Campus (1988), Eliot (1941), Erickson (2010), sobre quest?es que envolvem a po?tica Donniana; Bataille (1988) e Beauvoir (1980), nos questionamentos a respeito do erotismo e sexualidade; Grolli (2004) e Macedo (2002), quanto ao feminino e seu lugar no espa?o. / The objective of this research is to present a critical study on how the feminine representations happens in the erotic poems of John Donne (15721631), believing thus allow a better view of how the female was seen by English society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the analysis of the poems and their representations. The objectives are directed from the critical reading and interpretative analysis of the poems, both concerning understanding of social historical aspects as the identification of feminine places with regard its manifestations in Donneana poetry. In this sense, this research, bibliographic, analytical and interpretative character, is justified in the importance that is given to contextualization of the place and the feminine space in a society of a time of changes and social upheavals (end of the Renaissance, Middle Ages and religious reformulation). With the core studies on the place of women in Western society as well as direct their analysis to the study of erotic poems, since the feminine representations have most striking features in this space, considering all the work poetry of Donne. For this, the research was theoretical guidance, primarily, critical studies of Campus (1988), Eliot (1941), Erickson (2010), on issues surrounding the poetic Donneana; Bataille (1988) and Beauvoir (1980), the questions about the eroticism and sexuality; Grolli (2004) and Macedo (2002), about the women and their place in space.

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Literatura / Autor no autoriza el acceso a texto completo de su documento. / En este trabajo se estudiarán los procedimientos de representación de personas con enargeia en las elegías eróticas de John Donne, en el marco de la doctrina retórica del ingenio (“wit”). Dichos procedimientos de “caracterización” serán examinados atendiendo a sus modalidades de monólogo, diálogo y descripción, subyacentes a la aplicación de dos figuras: la écfrasis o prosopografía y la etopeya o prosopopeya. A partir del análisis, se pretende demostrar que la categoría de enargeia, y su examen en el marco de la doctrina del ingenio (“wit”), es enormemente productiva para explicar el efecto de la poesía amorosa de Donne y los procedimientos que lo provocan, en desmedro de otras nociones frecuentemente utilizadas por la crítica del siglo XX como “realismo” o “dramaticidad”. Para ello analizaré los poemas haciendo un rastreo de su primera legibilidad normativa, que consiste en aquellas normas lingüísticas que prescriben la escritura de textos en el momento de su producción, y que se vierten, para el caso de las elegías, en la tratadística retóricopoética que circulaba en Inglaterra isabelina y en las fuentes poéticas de emulación.