dc.contributor.author | Merrimen, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-31T17:21:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-31T17:21:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-08-31T17:21:33Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/74196 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the spiritual arc of John Donne’s early lyric poetry through the lens of the Protestant Reformation. Drawing on the work of Max Weber, I situate Donne in a post-Reformed cultural environment with which his strenuous Catholic upbringing clashes, creating a rupture in consciousness from which a distinctive, though often paradoxical religious persona emerges. The decline of a particularly tactile sense of Catholic sacramentalism and the rise of a more transcendental Protestant mode of scriptural intercourse causes Donne to attempt a poetic synthesis of body and soul in order to reconcile the extremes of his own divided religious loyalties. Following a developmental trajectory from Donne’s earliest Elegies and Satires through the Songs and Sonnets and ending with a treatment of the Holy Sonnets, it will be shown that Donne forged a poetic via media between his own Catholic past and the growing Anglican consensus in early modern England. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Donne, John, 1572-1631 | en_US |
dc.subject | Reformation | en_US |
dc.title | The Body is His Book: John Donne’s Sacramental Poetics | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2018-08-31 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of English | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Dr. Leonard Diepeveen | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Ronald Huebert | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Marjorie Stone | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Christina Luckyj | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |