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Thesis
ECSTATIC ALCHEMY
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2008
Abstract
The first of a seventeenth-century group of male poets affiliated with the metaphysical style, John Donne is known for his unconventional form and unusual imagery. During the Baroque, a volatile period of religious turmoil, scientific discovery, and economic expansion, subjects and objects were increasingly polarized along the lines of gender. In Songs and Sonnets, Donne troubles this newly-gendered ontology. By collapsing individuals into the objects that surround them, Donne disrupts the growing association of subjects with the masculine mind and objects with feminized matter. This thesis argues that Donne, more so than any other metaphysical poet, questions the ethics of an impending Cartesian subjectivity by insisting upon the centrality of the body and in so doing displaces consciousness as the defining element of the modern subject.
Details
- Title
- ECSTATIC ALCHEMY
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090849106600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida