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Refiguring the sacred feminine : the poems of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton /

"A study of the sacred feminine as it is understood in the works of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton, each of whom reformed and envisioned several important Christian archetypes: Ecclesia, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Divine Wisdom, and the soul as bride of Christ"--Provided by publ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DiPasquale, Theresa M., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, ©2008.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Donne in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean milieux
  • The feminine trinity in "The Annuntiation and Passion"
  • Donne's ambivalent mourning: Woman as mortal sacrament
  • Donne's "Show me deare Christ" and Augustine's exposition of Psalm 33
  • Scaramental poetics and right reading in the Anniversaries
  • The final cause of sacramental womanhood in The First Anniversarie
  • Moving beyond earthly womanhood in "A Funerall Elegie" and The Second Anniversarie
  • Lanyer as anti-Jacobean and neo-Elizabethan translator of scripture
  • Lanyer's incarnational poetics
  • The womanhood of the church and the priesthood of woman
  • Lanyer's critique of apostolic priesthood
  • Sacred Eros in Salve Deus
  • Envisioning heterosexual alternatives to Pauline Marriage
  • Lanyer's artful and natural homoerotics
  • Maternal wisdom and pastoral ministry in Arcades
  • Ecclesiastical discipline and virginal wisdom in A Mask
  • Eve and wisdom in Paradise Lost
  • Jesus as son and student of Mary in Paradise Regained.