Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Their Similars

Robert Mueller

doi:10.5771/9781793644817

Summary

Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Their Similars explores the work of prominent poets through a philosophical and theological lens. It focuses on the well-travelled yet precarious achievement that is Petrarch’s writing of the sonnet in Italian, his English successors Wyatt and Spenser with their own amatory strategies, and how Shakespeare’s sonnets turn the many difficult corners for imagining a writing against the untimely.

Its reach includes ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy; scripture; patristic theology; Renaissance and contemporary poetry; and numerous language traditions including Greek, Latin, Italian, French, German, and English. Robert Mueller explores a set of writers who address themselves to manifestations of the Other—for Dan Machlin to the place of Body, for Augustine to his wanting to know the Lord, for Petrarch to the honor of Love—alongside Aristotelian and other forms of epistemology. Through exacting, insightful, and original readings of these writers, Mueller analyzes the circuits and relations that connect them to those they address, with particular attention, especially for Sharon Dolin, to living their lives in these relations, and also to the temporal positions they adopt among the similar expressions of longing and seeking. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical texts and assembles a singular archive of writers across many centuries and language traditions.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4480-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4481-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 242
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preposterous No access
1. The difficulties. No access
2. The kinds. No access
3. For those who wait. No access
4. At first, there shall be the last. No access
5. All of these questions. No access
6. For the reader who is being encouraged time and again. No access
1. Notes No access
1. The lord is dearly to be praised. No access
2. It is like the breaking of bread. No access
3. The reader discerns linear bodies. No access
4. The amaze of eternity plays out analogously. No access
5. The incursive demands engineer their escape. No access
6. What appears as composure, what as ultimate joy? No access
7. Apparent avoidance meets inveigling sheen. No access
8. Temps psychologique is chief. No access
9. Writing obeys a law. No access
10. The mind is on fire. No access
11. A revelation is prepared. No access
12. Yet what kind of intelligence is this? No access
13. What sort of fear is this? No access
14. What starts the questioning over? No access
15. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 240
About the Author No access Pages 241 - 242