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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... stages of an action. The difference is terrible, and the power of the tragic statement continues unabated, though subsequent audiences will have lost touch with some of its tortured but customary usage. Our understanding will be ...
... stage reveals the inept actors, one of whom has also been an uncritical spectator. The example is a convenient if unusual example of how traditional attitudes can be reworked into the individual expression of a person and a time. Even ...
... stage that existed for the purposes of transition and change, it also provided an opposing element for dialectical conversion. If death was a punishment and not a law of nature, it was nevertheless a punishment for breaking divine law ...
... stage of prevention. The maxim worked best as a training device that sharpened one edge of thought while blunting another. For example, all minute consideration of death and of the sins to be prevented or repented served to intensify ...
... stage of which could be interpreted as beginning with the agony in the garden, where he prayed, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me! nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matt. 26:39). This could be ...
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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