New PDF release: Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation

By Kimberly Johnson

ISBN-10: 0812245881

ISBN-13: 9780812245882

During the Reformation, the secret of the Eucharist used to be the topic of contentious debate and a nexus of issues over how the fabric may include the chic and the way the absent may be made current. For Kimberly Johnson, the query of ways precisely Christ may be found in bread and wine is essentially a topic of illustration, and person who bears at once upon the mechanics of poetry. In Made Flesh, she explores the sacramental conjunction of textual content with materiality and observe with flesh during the ordinary poetic recommendations of the seventeenth-century English lyric.

Made Flesh examines the ways that the works of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Edward Taylor, and different devotional poets explicitly engaged in problems with signification, sacrament, worship, and the ontological price of the fabric international. Johnson reads the flip towards interpretively obstructive and tough types within the seventeenth-century English lyric as a technique to complete what the Eucharist itself can't: the transubstantiation of absence into perceptual presence through emphasizing the cloth artifact of the poem. At its center, Johnson demonstrates, the Reformation debate in regards to the Eucharist was once a subject of semiotics, a reimagining of the connection among language and materiality. The self-asserting thrives of strategy that built in accordance with sixteenth-century sacramental controversy have far-reaching results, persisting from the post-Reformation interval into literary postmodernity.

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