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Informationen zum Autor Andy Mousley Klappentext John Donne's poetry is provocatively illuminated in this new collection of essays. The recently influential critical methods of historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction are variously employed to explore Donne's ambivalent relationship to language, women, love, self, God and society. New critical approaches do not dominate the volume, however. Older forms of criticism are also represented, so that the old and the new may illuminate and interrogate each other. The introduction explicitly foregrounds some of the key differences and continuities between old and new versions of literary criticism, exploring the ideas and assumptions underlying each and offering insights into Donne in relation to them. Zusammenfassung John Donne's poetry is provocatively illuminated in this new collection of essays. The recently influential critical methods of historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction are variously employed to explore Donne's ambivalent relationship to language, women, love, self, God and society. New critical approaches do not dominate the volume, however. Older forms of criticism are also represented, so that the old and the new may illuminate and interrogate each other. The introduction explicitly foregrounds some of the key differences and continuities between old and new versions of literary criticism, exploring the ideas and assumptions underlying each and offering insights into Donne in relation to them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction; A.Mousley 'Oh, Let Mee Not Serve So': The Politics of Love in Donne's Elegies; A.Guibbory 'Nothing Sooner Broke': Donne's Songs and Sonnets as Self-Consuming Artifact; T.Rajan John Donne's World of Desire; C.Belsey Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics; B.Estrin The Lyric in the Field of Information: Autopoiesis and History in Donne's Songs and Sonnets; R.Halpern 'Darke Texts Needs Notes': Versions of Self in Donne's Verse Epistles; D.Aers and G.Kress Matrix as Metaphor: Midwifery and the Conception of Voice; E.Harvey Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power; S.Fish The 'Figura' of the Martyr in John Donne's Sermons; N.Wright The Fearful Accommodations of John Donne; W.Kerrigan Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index....