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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Devotional literature."”.
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Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature
“Intimate Exegesis” proposes that early modern devotional literature offers feeling, and particularly bad feeling, as a productive matrix for interpretation. In this body of work, feeling – haptic, sensory, affective – generates an intimacy between reader and text in a reading practice that is also …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… than to end it. The second part reads vernacular devotional literature alongside fandom theory and practice. This part shows how affective agents cannibalise and appropriate the material of an expanded universe, through a reading of a sequence of saints’ lives and miracles in Paris, Bibliothèque …
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Teaching Through Devotion: The Poetics of Yaśaskara’s Devīstotra and Premodern Kashmir
… of stotra (a hymn or poem of praise) in Sanskrit literature. The Devīstotra is a unique example of a text that has both a religious dimension (offering praise to the Goddess Pārvatī) and a literary-critical dimension (giving verse examples that elucidate Sanskrit poetic ornaments or alaṃkāras). …
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Private devotion in England on the eve of the Reformation illustrated from works printed or reprinted in the period 1530-40
… a detailed description of the different types of devotional literature (excluding all liturgical books, biblical translations, doctrinal and polemic works, saintS lives and sermons) available in print to English readers in the years immediately preceding England's break with Rome. It shows that …
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Humor i romantisk text : om Jean Pauls estetik i svensk romantik: C.F. Dahlgrens Mollbergs epistlar (1820), C.J.L. Almqvists Amorina (1822) och C. Livijns Spader Dame (1825)
… in the role that emblems and the tradition of devotional literature play in these works.
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
Using three texts written by different authors, this thesis argues that sixteenth-century English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones …
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Simple books for devout readers: Recovering a fifteenth-century middle English genre
… that these books constitute a Middle English devotional genre, which I call the Simple Book. All of these books not only share a format, they also share similar types of devotional texts, and ultimately the format and texts work in tandem to create a humble, devotional reading experience. The …
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To ask "fit things fitly" : the prayers of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
… Occasions' is often read alongside the many devotionals that shaped religious life during the early part of the seventeenth century. One subset of this literature, however, has often been overlooked: the array of devotional manuals purporting to provide instruction on the art of Christian …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… range of late-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional literature, Christ's body is metaphorically related to a book or a document at the moment of his crucifixion. His skin transforms into parchment, whips and scourges become pens, and a steady flow of blood, of ink, covers his body and the …
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Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books
… England. I then draw on my archival research of devotional poems in fifteenth-century manuscripts and early print books to analyze the linear workings of three poems for penitential introspection and ethical sensitization: John Lydgate’s Kalendare (which I discuss in chapter 2), Thomas Brampton’s …
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
… 1630s, the themes of prayer and preaching in his devotional work, Ancilla Pietatis, and collection of seventy sermons, Clavis Mystica, were complementary rather than contradictory. It also builds on several of the major themes of the thesis by examining how pastoral and polemical motivations were …