The Calvinesque an Aesthetics of Violence in English Literature after the Reformation.
Title:
The Calvinesque an Aesthetics of Violence in English Literature after the Reformation.
Author:
Richter, Claudia.
ISBN:
9783653033212
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Publication Information:
Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (178 pages)
General Note:
Kapitelüberblick.
Contents:
Cover; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; Delineation of Definitions and Categories; 'The Calvinesque': An Aesthetics of Violence; Religion, Protestantism, Violence; 1. The Reformation of the Image; 1.1 Iconophobia ; An Almshouse for a Palace?; Prophets and Word-painting; 2. Anti-Theatricality and the Imagination of Violence; 2.1 Calvin's Early Christian Sources: Tertullian, ""De Spectaculis""; 2.2 Augustine, ""Ad Simplicianum""; 2.3 Crime and Punishment: Thomas Beard, ""The Theatre of God's Judgements""; 2.4 Representations of Violence: Martyrdom.
Medieval Martyrdom and Violent ImageryJohn Foxe; The Death of John Hooper; 3. The 'Calvinesque': Literary and Dramatic Language; 3.1 Psalm Translations after the Reformation; 3.1.1 The Maledictory Psalm 137; 3.1.2 Psalm 137 and Milton's Sonnet 18; 3.2 Calvinism, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; 3.2.1 The Rhetoric of Prophecy: Marlowe, Tamburlaine and Dr Faustus; Protestantism and Rhetoric; Hyperbole, Rhetoric and the Bible; Future Tense and Hyperbole in ""The Passionate Shepherd, Dr Faustus"" and ""Tamburlaine""; Revelation: Calvin and Tamburlaine.
3.2.2 ""Tamburlaine the Great"" and Foxe's ""Acts and Monuments""3.2.3 The Iconography of God's Punishment: Braining; The case of ""Dr Faustus"": The German ""Faustbuch"" to Marlowe's ""Dr Faustus""; Endings; Back to Braining; 3.2.4 The Dramatic and Literary 'Calvinesque': Summary ; 4. Calvinism and Histories of Violence in Europe; 4.1 The "Pornography of Pain" ; 4.2 Disciplinary Society; Philip Gorski and Charles Taylor ; Michel Foucault; Norbert Elias; Epilogue; Bibliography; 1. Editions; A. Theological ; B. Literary ; C. Works cited; Miscellaneous; Deutsche Zusammenfassung.
Abstract:
This study deals with the aesthetic manifestations of one of the world''s most fiercely iconophobic and anti-aesthetic religious cultures: Calvinism. It establishes the category of the Calvinesque as an aesthetic of extreme violence against the human body. In close readings of theological documents, literary texts and dramatic speeches, the book examines the extent to which language, literary imagination and theology permeate and condition each other. The book aims at providing new perspectives on literary stylistics after the religious turn in the humanities. By emphasising the pervasive impa.
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