UID:
almafu_9958910536002883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9783839442548
Series Statement:
Lettre
Content:
With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular early modern metaphor that has received little critical commentary. In a rigorous historical and theological reading, Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets - John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton - to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor.
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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CONVENTIONS --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1: The Poetics of the Last Pilgrimage --
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Chapter 2: “streight way on that last long voiage” --
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Chapter 3: “a death like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal Life” --
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Conclusion: John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress --
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.14361/9783839442548
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839442548
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