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Theologies of language in English renaissance literature : reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / James S. Baumlin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0739169602
  • 9780739169605
  • 9781282134003
  • 1282134000
  • 9780739169612
  • 0739169610
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 820.9/003 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3072.B28 T44 2012eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment.
Summary: Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)470694

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment.

Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of.

Print version record.