Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric : unsettling spatial anchors like "Here," "This," "Come" /

"This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments. But it also briefly suggests parallels with both i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dubrow, Heather, 1945- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:	English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Language and languages in literature. Grammar, Comparative and general > Deixis. Lyric poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Poetics > Language. Gesture in literature. Mimesis in literature. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Delimitations, Definitions, Disciplines1. Test-driving Deixis: Formulating Issues, Coining Concepts2. Edmund Spenser's 'Epithalamion' and Strategic Spatiality3. William Shakespeare's Sonnets and Deictic Textuality4. Lady Mary Wroth's Song I and Some Versions of Pastoral Deixis5. John Donne's 'Hymne to God my God, in my Sicknesse' and Prevenient Proximity6. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow? Conclusions and InvitationsNotesIndex.