Textu(r)al performances of affect in John Donne's valediction poems
- This article suggests a method of ‘differential’ reading—that is, reading for the affective surplus beyond a text’s semantics—in order to analyse the role of affect in John Donne’s poetry. Derived from contrasting several twenty-first-century theories of affect (Massumi, Sedgwick, Brinkema), such a differential reading wants to explore the way in which affect is expressed through poetic form and through the more immediately experiential, or material, dimensions of a poem: that is, through its texture. Donne’s valediction poems make use both of their evocation of a concrete materiality that affords touching and being touched and of their creation of cognitive intensity through semantic overdetermination to perform affect in their poetic language, allowing for affective experience and cognitive reading to merge in a blend of thinking and feeling.
| Author: | Martin RiedelsheimerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1149833 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/114983 |
| ISSN: | 1832-8334OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Parergon |
| Publisher: | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
| Place of publication: | Canberra |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2024/08/26 |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 273 |
| Last Page: | 294 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935343 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Anglistik / Amerikanistik / Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
