Costly Monuments : Representations of the Self in George Herbert’s Poetry /
Harman, Barbara Leah
Costly Monuments : Representations of the Self in George Herbert’s Poetry / Barbara Leah Harman. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (225 p.)
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE CRITICAL CONTROVERSY -- part one. FICTIONS OF COHERENCE -- chapter 1. "SO DID I WEAVE MY SELF INTO THE SENSE" -- chapter 2. COLLAPSING PERSONAL STORIES -- chapter 3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BEYOND -- part two. CHRONICLES OF DISSOLUTION -- chapter 4. "NO CONTINUING CITTY" -- chapter 5. THE DISSOLUTION OF BODIES AND STORIES -- CONCLUSION: THE BIBLE AS COUNTERTEXT -- NOTES -- INDEX
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In recent years George Herbert's poetry has been analyzed by some of our most distinguished literary critics. Offering close readings of central poems, and insights derived from contemporary literary theory, Barbara Harman takes her place in their company. She begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between critical practice and belief. The impulse toward self-representation is, she argues, a powerful one in Herbert's work, and it is also an impulse thwarted and redesigned in extraordinary ways. In poems Harman calls fictions of coherence and "chronicles of dissolution," speakers both protect and dismantle their own narratives, and because they do they raise questions about the values we attach to stories and about the difficulties we undergo when stories fail to represent us in traditional ways.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674497320 9780674497337
10.4159/harvard.9780674497337 doi
Englische Literatur.
Self in literature.
Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
Self in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Costly Monuments : Representations of the Self in George Herbert’s Poetry / Barbara Leah Harman. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (225 p.)
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE CRITICAL CONTROVERSY -- part one. FICTIONS OF COHERENCE -- chapter 1. "SO DID I WEAVE MY SELF INTO THE SENSE" -- chapter 2. COLLAPSING PERSONAL STORIES -- chapter 3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BEYOND -- part two. CHRONICLES OF DISSOLUTION -- chapter 4. "NO CONTINUING CITTY" -- chapter 5. THE DISSOLUTION OF BODIES AND STORIES -- CONCLUSION: THE BIBLE AS COUNTERTEXT -- NOTES -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In recent years George Herbert's poetry has been analyzed by some of our most distinguished literary critics. Offering close readings of central poems, and insights derived from contemporary literary theory, Barbara Harman takes her place in their company. She begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between critical practice and belief. The impulse toward self-representation is, she argues, a powerful one in Herbert's work, and it is also an impulse thwarted and redesigned in extraordinary ways. In poems Harman calls fictions of coherence and "chronicles of dissolution," speakers both protect and dismantle their own narratives, and because they do they raise questions about the values we attach to stories and about the difficulties we undergo when stories fail to represent us in traditional ways.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674497320 9780674497337
10.4159/harvard.9780674497337 doi
Englische Literatur.
Self in literature.
Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
Self in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.