Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823290048.003.0003
D. Gil
George Herbert’s poetry frames the body in the light of an eventual resurrection as a way of deranging any conventional sense of self or identity. Herbert is interested in the hypothesis that beneath the ambitions, emotions, and personal history of his socially conditioned self, there is another self that inheres in the body and that is in some sense “truer” than his social self. Herbert thus uses his poetry to seek a self (and a voice) that is different than the highly acculturated social person “George Herbert.” For Herbert, formally experimental poetry is a way of articulating the voice of this other self. Herbert drives his poetry to the point where his “own” voice is drowned out by a voice that is associated with the body. The chapter also examines what Herbert’s poetic theory of identity implies about an understanding of the emotions which are a key focus of many of Herbert’s poems. The chapter ends by examining the impact Herbert had on readers. By moving from a vision of poetry as representation or as beautiful object to a vision of poetry as social praxis that creates communities, Herbert anticipates avant-gardist movements of the early twentieth century
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1515/9780823290079-011
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1515/9780823290079-001
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1515/9780823290079-007
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823290048.003.0005
D. Gil
Chapter 4 articulates more explicitly than the previous chapter the way resurrection beliefs in Vaughan’s poetry function as “critical theory” about selfhood, identity, and the social world. The chapter examines Vaughan’s devotional and religious “self-help” literature and Vaughan’s translation and expansion of a hermetic medical treatise. Vaughan’s immanent corporeal resurrectionist commitment to finding the “seeds” of resurrection leads him to posit an essential core of bodily life—the radical balsam—that seeks eternal life but that is sickened when it is penetrated and rewired by the social and historical world. The goal of Vaughan’s devotional writings and medicine alike is to rewire the self so that it reduces its investment in the historical and social world by having its life directed by the essential core, a move that is analogous to his poetic search for the seeds and signs of resurrection within himself his poetry (the subject of chapter 3). This vision anticipates Heidegger’s phenomenology and Bourdieu’s theory of habitus. Vaughan also describes a form of sexuality that anticipates Leo Bersani in imagining the body as socialized and yet as potentially unhinged from that social connectedness.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1515/9780823290079-008
D. Gil
This chapter examines the current pop culture fascination with the undead body visible in the explosion of TV shows and films about zombies. Emmanuel Carrère’s The Kingdom tells the story of the well-known French writer’s brief but intense conversion to Christianity, in the grip of which he was involved in developing the French TV series Les Revenants, which was the model for A&E’s The Returned. Carrère’s account of his relationship to the Christian theology of resurrection as an inspiration for Les Revenants reveals the truth of the “undead” genres more generally, namely as a culture-wide return of the repressed, a protest against the increasingly disembodied, virtualized way we live today. Implicitly, the undead character (including the zombie) attacks the modern fantasy that the self is, in its essence, disembodied and therefore reducible to information, data, and code and in which people yearn for a cybernetic resurrection that will take the form of entering into the disembodied life of the digital world. In the midst of this disembodied virtualized world, pop zombie culture, like seventeenth-century culture, is a reminder of the body’s abiding vulnerabilities, limitations, and also potentials for transcendence.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823290048.003.0004
D. Gil
Henry Vaughan asserts an understanding of resurrection as essentially and fundamentally about the body, and he understands resurrection to be “immanent” in the sense that signs of resurrection can already now be seen breaking into the here and now. Vaughan’s goal in his poetry is to uncover “Traces, and sounds of a strange kind,” as he puts it in “Vanity of Spirit.” Vaughan’s searching analysis of himself splits his bodily life into two: on the one hand, a socialized and historicized life and, on the other hand, a life that, in its material strangeness, is alien to his time and place and therefore the substrate of resurrection. At the same time, Vaughan is also interested in investigating the material stuff of the natural world separate from the uses and meanings that human languages impose upon it. By mystical attention to material stuff, including feathers, rocks, rainbows, and trees, Vaughan believes he can discover a perspective that transcends historical time. In that sense, Vaughan anticipates the Romantic poets. His formal experimentation is designed to make his poetry a tool to investigate the material strangeness of the person. As such, he develops a distinctively avant-garde poetics as theorized by Peter Bürger.
亨利·沃恩主张对复活的理解本质上和根本上是关于身体的，他认为复活是“内在的”，因为现在已经可以看到复活的迹象在此时此地出现。正如他在《精神的虚荣》(Vanity of Spirit)中所说的那样，沃恩在诗歌中的目标是揭示“一种奇怪的痕迹和声音”。沃恩对自己的深入分析将他的身体生活一分为二:一方面，社会化和历史化的生活，另一方面，由于物质上的陌生性，他的生活与他的时间和地点格格不入，因此是复活的基础。与此同时，沃恩也有兴趣研究自然世界的物质，而不是人类语言强加给它的用途和意义。通过对物质的神秘关注，包括羽毛、岩石、彩虹和树木，沃恩相信他可以发现一种超越历史时间的视角。从这个意义上说，沃恩先于浪漫主义诗人。他的形式实验旨在使他的诗歌成为一种工具，以调查人的物质陌生性。因此，他发展了一种独特的先锋派诗学，这是彼得·布尔格的理论。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1515/9780823290079-006
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Pub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1515/9780823290079-002
D. Gil
The introduction traces the intellectual history of resurrection from the Hellenistic era through the Reformation and up to the advent of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. To make the idea of resurrection more compatible with an emerging secular modernity it is gradually modified in the direction of dualism by positing a detachable soul that lives on after death. But the ancient hope for the resurrection of the body and its flesh lives on as an oppositional discourse that challenges key institutions of an emerging secular modernity including the models of selfhood, subjectivity, and agency it assumes and privileges. The critical potential of the residual idea of the resurrection of the body and its flesh is most evident in the most experimental poetry of the century, which I argue anticipates the avant-garde poetry of the early twentieth century theorized by Renato Poggioli and Peter Bürger. The formally experimental poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Jonson is a tool for bringing to light a deranging experience of being vibrant matter at the heart of the socialized self.
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