Andrew Marvell's "A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure": Asceticism and the Plain Style
This article examines the use of the plain style in Andrew Alarvell's poem A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.' It argues that, uniquely among othe.r eaily modern body and soul dialogue poems, Marvell painstakingly difierentiates the verbosity of Pleasure and the v...
| Published in: | Religion & literature |
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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Religion & literature
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Marvell, Andrew 1621-1678, A dialogue between the resolved soul and created pleasure
/ Asceticism
/ Simplicity
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| RelBib Classification: | TJ Modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
Horneck, Anthony
B Asceticism in literature B Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 B Verbosity B Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul & Created Pleasure, A (Book) |
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| Summary: | This article examines the use of the plain style in Andrew Alarvell's poem A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.' It argues that, uniquely among othe.r eaily modern body and soul dialogue poems, Marvell painstakingly difierentiates the verbosity of Pleasure and the vcrbal restraint of Soul. Through this differentiation, the poem establishes a connection between the plain and the ascetic; the forbidding and austere Soiil speaks plainly The essay situates this conjoining of plainness and asceticism among other early modern authors who also associate, or simply equate, what is plain and what is ascetic. Based upon the pocm's capacity to epitomize a broader tendency within literary and religious culture, the article interrogates the narrative of asceticism'$ demise or rliminution in early modernity The stylistic internalization of austerity becomes a means for the preservation-indeed, the flourishing-of post-Reforniation asccticism. |
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| Item Description: | Die Hefte mit der Zählung 52.2020,3 und 53.2021,1 sind als Doppelheft erschienen |
| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0038 |