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Holy Delight

Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne's "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" [Hardback]

by Kate Gartner Frost

    • Author

      Kate Gartner Frost

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Princeton University Press

    • Published

      May 2016

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      Composed on the occasion of the poet's near-fatal bout with typhus in 1623, the Devotions contains the essential germ of John Donne's mature thought, embodied in obscurely structured verse/prose divisions. Because of its seeming digressiveness, critics have struggled to understand this most significant of Renaissance texts as a whole. Kate Gartner Frost, however, shows that the Devotions, which combines odd bits of natural history, personal life-data, quotations from scripture, and descriptions of unpleasant medical nostrums with personal religious outpourings, is a unified work belonging to the tradition of English devotional literature and spiritual autobiography from Augustine onward. Frost examines how Donne patterned his work on models and structures that allowed the blending of chronology, experience, anecdote, and insight into the fullness of extended metaphor reflecting the human condition. Donne's use of biblical typology is treated, as well as his adherence to a poetics rooted in pre-Copernican cosmology, which relies on underlying spatial structures.
      Finally, Frost reveals the actual numerological structures present in the Devotions and addresses the problem of discursive reading in relation to spatially organized premodern works. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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      • Author

        Kate Gartner Frost

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Princeton University Press

      • Published

        May 2016

      • Weight

        464g

      • Page Count

        204

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • ISBN

        9780691632278

      • ISBN-10

        0691632278

      • Eden Code

        4450523

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      • Author/Creator: Kate Gartner Frost

      • ISBN: 9780691632278

      • Publisher: Princeton University Press

      • Release Date: May 2016

      • Weight: 464g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • Eden Code: 4450523


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