Fettering Ignatius to Verse: Donne's Reckoning with the Spiritual Exercises in the Holy Sonnets

dc.contributor.advisorPassannante, Gerarden_US
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, Brianen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-20T05:37:44Z
dc.date.available2008-06-20T05:37:44Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-01en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this project is to reestablish the Jesuit influence on John Donne's Holy Sonnets in order to better understand the spiritual stagnancy expressed by his speakers. In doing so, this thesis will not examine Donne's poetry as the reproduction of a meditative experience, but as the poet's conscious efforts to contend with his formative traditions by "fettering" them to verse. In these sonnets, Donne dramatizes a conflicted spiritual heritage through the speakers' ambivalent responses to the Jesuit meditative model. As Donne's speakers engage and ultimately reject the requirements of the Spiritual Exercises they uncover the tension between acknowledging one's past and asserting one's selfhood.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8190
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Englishen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDonneen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIgnatiusen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHoly Sonnetsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSpiritual Exercisesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJesuiten_US
dc.titleFettering Ignatius to Verse: Donne's Reckoning with the Spiritual Exercises in the Holy Sonnetsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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