Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586–95Manchester University Press, 2013 M07 19 - 328 páginas It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell’s poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering layers of new meanings, hidden emblems, and sharp critiques of Elizabeth’s courtiers, and even of the ageing queen herself. |
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... suggest, of his Continental seminary education, in which he was unused to any English but the most restrained and focused, and very used to seeing a message condensed into emblem and imagery on the walls of his colleges (often with ...
... suggesting a partnership in Southwell's mind between image and understanding that seems to exist in part outside language. That dizzying trompe l'oeil manipulation of the imaginary space between God's heaven and viewer's earth seen in ...
... suggesting that Southwell's layers of meaning were so complex in their various implications and stratifications, amongst (or in spite of) all the various companies that he kept, that they almost override the idea of meaning at all ...
... suggest. That project was centred upon the idea of authority, expressed through authorship, upon the very Jesuit understanding of writing as ministry, of reader as soul, as the death of the author as a way of understanding the text most ...
... suggest that it was Southwell's clear, Christian Englishness and its appeal to popular feeling that made him a threat to a State project that sought to alter and own that very tradition. GRACE. AND. THE. INDIVIDUAL. TALENT. A god might ...
Contenido
the inward eie | |
into England | |
Englands altered confidence | |
rewriting the English lyric landscape | |
Southwells war of words | |
Southwells sacralised poetic | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |