John Donne and Baroque Allegory

Résumé du livre

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Walter Benjamin and John Donne: Constellations of Past and Present -- Benjamin, Donne, and the Era of the Baroque -- Walter Benjamin's Presentism -- Donne's Afterlife -- T.S. Eliot: Presentist Critic -- Benjamin's Correction of the Anglo-American Modernist Donne -- The Baroque and Donne -- The Baroque in Anglo-American Literary Studies -- The Baroque Comes to England and America -- The Baroque in Donne Studies -- Changing Tides? -- A Postmodernist Donne -- Multiple Postmodernist Donnes -- Aesthetic Paradigms and Critical Paradigms -- Some Current Work on Donne -- Moving on in Donne Studies -- Benjamin, Baroque Allegory, and the Postmodernist Donne -- Notes -- 2 The Anniversaries as Baroque Allegory: Mourning, Idealization, and the Resistance to Unity -- Situating The Anniversaries -- The First Anniversary -- The Progres of the Soule -- The Resistance to Unity of The Anniversaries -- Notes -- 3 Donne's The Songs and Sonets: Living in a Fragmented World -- The Structure of Baroque Allegory -- Spleen et Idéale in The Songs and Sonets -- The World in Decay: Poems of Mourning in The Songs and Sonets -- The Empty World of the Libertine Poems -- Love between Ovid and Petrarch -- Irony or Ambiguity? -- The Counter-Utopia of the Songs and Sonets -- Notes -- 4 Allegorical Objects and Metaphysical Conceits: Thinking about Donne's Tropes with Benjamin -- What Was a Metaphysical Conceit? -- Gracián's and Tesauro's Treatises on Wit -- Benjamin's Allegory and the Metaphysical Conceit -- The Baroque Image and the Conceit -- Conceits, Baroque Images, and Allegorical Tropes -- ''The Extasie'': Allegorical Form and Technique -- Two-in-One and the Baroque -- Notes