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Liturgical Liasons: The Textual Body, Irony, and Betrayal in John Donne and Emily Dickinson

Liturgical Liasons: The Textual Body, Irony, and Betrayal in John Donne and Emily Dickinson

Heit, Jamey

Paperback

Literary CriticismReligion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 071889507X
ISBN13: 9780718895075
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Aug 31 2017
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An imaginative and enriching analysis of the poetry of John Donne and Emily Dickinson from a liturgical and theological perspective.

When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these deconstructive elements, however, the promise invites the disciples into an intimate space where they anticipate the fulfilment of what is to come. The Last Supper, symbol of unfinished life and sacrifice, becomes the common thread between John Donne and Emily Dickinson, whose poetics acquire liturgical - and therefore eschatological - features, and body and text become the same.

By tracing the displacing and yet co-ordinating theme of the body as a textual presence, Liturgical Liaisons opens into new readings of Donne and Dickinson in a way that enriches how these figures are understood as poets. The result is a risky and rewarding understanding of how these two gurus challenged accepted theological norms of their day.

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