John Donne and Baroque Allegory : The Aesthetics of Fragmentation
by
Hugh Grady
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107195802
ISBN-13
9781107195806
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 10th, 2017
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
235 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: poetry & poets
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This book provides a new appreciation of the writing of John Donne by studying it through Walter Benjamin's concept of baroque allegory. Close readings of works including The Songs and Sonnets and The Anniversaries through this lens illuminate John Donne's poetry and develop new directions in Donne studies.
John Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censure. In this major re-assessment of Donne''s poetry, Hugh Grady argues that his work can be newly appreciated in our own era through Walter Benjamin''s theory of baroque allegory. Providing close readings of The Anniversaries, The Songs and Sonnets, and selected other lyrics, this study reveals Donne as being immersed in the aesthetic of fragmentation that define both the baroque and the postmodernist aesthetics of today. Synthesizing cultural criticism and formalist analysis, Grady illuminates Donne afresh as a great poet for our own historical moment.
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