Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis by Siobhán...

Description: Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis by Siobhn.... . Condition is New. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail. I thank you for looking. Have a blessed day Siobhn Collins re-evaluates Metempsychosis as a high point of Donne's poetic canon, situating the poem's somatic representations of various species within the context of early modern intellectual discourses and notions of human identity. Contesting Metempsychosis' previous status as an anomaly within Donne's oeuvre, Collins details its thematic links with Donne's other work through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with processes of transformation: material and spiritual. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne's Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne's canon. Siobhn Collins appraises Metempsychosis for its extraordinary openness to and its inventive portrayal of conflict within identity. She situates this ludic verse as a text alert to and imbued with the Elizabethan fascination with the processes and properties of metamorphosis. Contesting the pervasive view that the poem is incomplete, this study illustrates how Metempsychosis is thematically linked with Donne's other writings through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with temporality and transformation. Collins uses this genre-defying verse as a springboard to contribute significantly to our understanding of contribute significantly to our understanding of early modern concerns over the nature and borders of human identity, and the notion of selfhood as mutable and in process. Drawing on and contributing to recent scholarly work on the history of the body and on sexuality in the early modern period, Collins argues that Metempsychosis reveals the oft-violent processes of change involved in the author's personal life and in the intellectual, religious and political environment of his time. She places the poem's somatic representations of plants, beasts and humans within the context of early modern discourses: natural philosophy, medical, political and religious. Collins offers a far-reaching exploration of how Metempsychosis articulates philosophical inquiries that are central to early modern notions of self-identity and moral accountability, such as: the human capacity for autonomy; the place of the human in the 'great chain of being'; the relationship between cognition and embodiment, memory and selfhood; and the concept of wonder as a distinctly human phenomenon. My family and I thank you for your business. I do stand behind all my items. If there is an issue. Please reach out to me. Items sold through the global shipping program are protected with EBAY's buyer and seller policies. Blessings Author: Siobhn Collins ISBN:9781409406358 Format:Hardcover Publication Date:2013-05-22

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