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Poetic Relations - Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation (Hardcover)
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Poetic Relations - Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation (Hardcover)
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What is the relationship between our isolated and our social
selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey
probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early
Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary
search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert,
Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are
surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine
companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the
modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different
way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues,
the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever
interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships.
By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas,
social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who
understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as
a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new
ways of thinking about selfhood today and a resource for
reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world.
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