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The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.
Donne, John --- Donne, John, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- 820 "16" --- 820 "16" Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Donne, John (1572-1631) --- Critique et interprétation
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Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the consequences of desire. He wanted a courtly career badly enough to renounce the Catholicism of his childhood. Later, he wanted a woman badly enough to gamble that career for her sake; he lost, but found a new calling in the Anglican Church. There, he pursued philosophical and theological questions with an intensity to match his former social ambitions, and was not above addressing God Himself in tones of "immoderate desire." Death became his ultimate object of passionate attention; and ever since that final consummation, critics have argued over the nature and import of Donne's desires, while simultaneously (if not always self-consciously) revealing a great deal about their own. Saunders explores this dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, from his earliest readers to his recent professional critics. In the process, Saunders considers an extraordinary range of topics, including the technology of the book, prosodic theory, the problem of misogyny, the history of sexuality, and even the purpose of criticism itself; remarkably, he does so, while keeping Donne's poetry in focus at all times. Witty, erudite, theoretically engaged, but intensely readable, this study takes into account recent developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and post-modern psychoanalysis, while offering dazzling close readings of many of Donne's most famous poems.
820 "16" DONNE, JOHN --- Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--DONNE, JOHN --- 820 "16" DONNE, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--DONNE, JOHN --- Desire in literature --- Love poetry, English --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Donne, John (1572-1631) --- Poésie d'amour anglaise --- Désir --- Critique et interprétation --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature
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