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Poetic Relations: Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation

By (author) Constance M. Furey

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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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Publisher | The University of Chicago Press
Published date | 5 Jun 2017
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 224
Dimensions | 22 x 15 x 2mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 454g
ISBN | 978-0-2264-3415-5
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BISAC | religion / christianity / general


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