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Title

The poetics of transubstantiation : from theology to metaphor / edited by Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Burnham, Douglas.
• Giaccherini, Enrico, 1947-

Description

xiv, 181 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in European cultural transition ; v. 27

Subject

• Catholic Church > Doctrines > History
• English literature > History and criticism
• Christianity and literature > Great Britain
• Transubstantiation > History of doctrines
• Transubstantiation in literature
• Lord's Supper in literature
• Sacraments in literature
• Theology in literature
• Metaphor

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-178) and index.

Contents

The riddle of transubstantiation / Douglas Burnham -- Real accidents, surfaces and digestions : Descartes and the 'very easily explained' transubstantiation / Tomaso Cavallo -- The transubstantial bard : Shakespeare and Catholicism / Michael Davies -- Transubstantiating the performance : towards a mimetic narrative in Hamlet's Hecuba scene / Silvia Bigliazzi -- Transubstantiating love : John Donne and cultural criticism / Andy Mousley -- A 'deformed' Christianity: ethical transubstantiation in English Reformation plays / Nicoletta Caputo -- From substantial body into evanescent ghost : the world of James Macpherson's ossianic 'fragments' / Laura Giovannelli -- Shakespeare as Paraclitus : transubstantiation in Joyce and T.S. Eliot / Francesco Gozzi -- Food for the soul : reading Mrs Ramsay's boeuf en daube / Catherine Burgass -- Reformations : Ford Madox Ford and transubstantiation / Martin Stannard -- Lost in translation : gender and the figure of the translator in contemporary queer fiction / Emma Parker -- Conrad and Scola : transposing the Heart of darkness into film / Mario Curreli -- RSC 1999 : enter guilt on the stage of conscience : the family reunion by T.S. Eliot / Carla Dente -- Embodying the past : vocal transubstantiation in Erri de Luca's Tu, mio / Marina Spunta -- Sculptural transubstantiations : reflections upon wax, flesh and stone, blood, bread and bone / Alison Yarrington.

Call Number

JFE 05-4625

ISBN

075465026X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004012172

OCLC

• 55518193
• vendorOCM55518193

Title

The poetics of transubstantiation : from theology to metaphor / edited by Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2005.

Series

Studies in European cultural transition ; v. 27

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-178) and index.

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Added Author

Burnham, Douglas.

Giaccherini, Enrico, 1947-

Research Call Number

JFE 05-4625