The House of Death: Messages from the English RenaissanceJHU Press, 24 de març 2020 - 320 pàgines Originally published in 1986. In The House of Death, Arnold Stein studies the ways in which English poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries imagined their own ends and wrote of the deaths of those they loved or wished to honor. Drawing on a wide range of texts in both poetry and prose, Stein examines the representations, images, and figurative meanings of death from antiquity to the Renaissance. A major premise of the book is that commonplaces, conventions, and the established rules for thinking about death did not prevent writers from discovering the distinctive in it. Eloquent readings of Raleigh, Donne, Herbert, and others capture the poets approaching their own death or confronting the death of others. Marvell's lines on the execution of Charles are paired with his treatment of the dead body of Cromwell; Henry King and John Donne both write of their late wives; Ben Jonson mourns the death of a first son and a first daughter. For purposes of comparison, the governing perspective of the final chapter is modern. |
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... Spirit (as in Scripture); according to Donne, that language works directly upon the human soul and conscience but indirectly and figuratively upon the reason and understanding. My study takes me through some different kinds of images ...
... in their own deaths. Only the last words, as reported by Luke 24:46 (“Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit”), expressed the unquestionable assurance of faith, and these entered the prescribed ritual of Christian dying.
... spirit of Christian triumph over death, a triumph resembling something of the spirit of those ancient eccentrics who mourned birth and celebrated death. But the ars moriendi was a literary form that moved with varied rhythms through ...
... spirit of an age long departed.10 Or, to cite a modern instance that may speak more directly to a modern reader's recognition, in some recent candid words about the fear of death, Irving Howe darts across the intervening centuries to ...
... spirit of legend, failed to respond to Raleigh's signal and had to be spoken to directly: “What dost thou fear? Strike, man!”13 The audience was public and not a judicial body of scholarly theologians; nevertheless, even the critical ...
Continguts
Donnes Pictures of the Good Death | |
PART TWO Writing about Ones Own Death | |
Respice Finem | |
PART THREE On the Death of Someone Else | |
Introduction | |
PainDifficulty Ease | |
Personal and Public Expressions | |
Episodes in the Progress of Death | |
PART FOUR Expression | |
Preliminary Views | |
Thought and Images | |
Tichbornes Elegy 6 Dying in Jest and Earnest Raleigh | |
John Donne | |
George Herbert | |
The Plaudite or end of life | |
Images of Reflection | |
Reasoning by Resemblances | |
Intricacies | |
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The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance Arnold Stein Visualització de fragments - 1986 |
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