Theologies of language in English renaissance literature : reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / James S. Baumlin.
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TextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style
- Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Language
- Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Literary style
- Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Language
- Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Literary style
- Donne, John, 1572-1631
- Milton, John, 1608-1674
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Style
- Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Theology in literature
- Anglais (Langue) -- 1500-1700 (Moderne) -- Rhétorique
- Rhétorique de la Renaissance
- Théologie dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric
- English language -- Early modern -- Style
- Language and languages
- Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Literary style
- Theology in literature
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- PR3072.B28 T44 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment.
Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of.
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