English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory
Sublime Objects of Theology
Authors: Cefalu, Paul
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This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture.
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PAUL CEFALU is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Lafayette College, Pennysylvania, USA.
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'This new work pushes the 'return to religion' into a 'return to theory,' pursued via exegetical and philosophical frameworks firmly located in the period of study, but with their roots and branches leading far wider than any 'contextual' approach could adequately map. In Cefalu's study, engagement with theology brings forward concepts, concerns and modes of reading that are born out of specific historical situations, traumas and debates, but are not reducible to them, modeling a theoretical approach to literature that is hermeneutically grounded in the very stuff of Western literariness (namely, its religious tropes, rhythms, and figures). Cefalu's chosen paradigm for encountering 'the sublime objects of theology' is Lacanian psychoanalysis, in the cultural and ethical spin given to it in the masterful work of Slavoj i ek and other members of the Slovenian school, including Mladen Dolor and Alenka Zupancic. This is a very timely book.' - Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-32
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States of Exception and Pauline Love in John Donne’s Sermons and Poetry
Pages 33-67
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Baroque Monads and Allegorical Immanence: A Reassessment of Richard Crashaw’s Imagery
Pages 69-99
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Tarrying with Chaos: John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Pages 101-140
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Infinite Love and the Limits of Neo-Scholasticism in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne
Pages 141-179
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory
- Book Subtitle
- Sublime Objects of Theology
- Authors
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- Paul Cefalu
- Copyright
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-60749-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230607491
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-7669-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-53730-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 217
- Topics
