George Herbert and Post-phenomenology - A Gift for Our Times

This reading of George Herbert's poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert's poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet's response to a call which originates in the Word made flesh and at the same time resounds within the depths of an individual self. The focus of this analysis falls on the essential «Englishness» of Herbert's poetry and its material weight: its visual concreteness, its musical harmonies, and its attention to human flesh made (English) word.

List of contents

Contents: Philosophy of donation - Saturated phenomenon - Incarnation - Flesh made word - The voice of another - Word made wound - George Herbert's The Temple - Eucharistic poetry.

About the author

Mägorzata Grzegorzewska is a Professor of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She has published extensively on Shakespeare and the Metaphysical Poets as well as on the connections between literature and philosophy (Kierkegaard, Marion, Henry).

Product details

• Authors: Ma¿gorzata Grzegorzewska, Malgorzata Grzegorzewska
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631661529
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66152-9
• No. of pages: 245
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 21 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture; Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies