Entangled voices genre and the religious construction of the self / [electronic resource] :
Frederick J. Ruf.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- x, 125 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-120) and index.
Introduction: hearing voices -- The voices of narrative, lyric, and drama: The three characteristics of narrative -- Lyric -- Drama -- "Jogona's great treasure": narrative, lyric, and dramatic intelligibility: Intelligibility: Comprehensiveness and cohesion -- Conclusions -- "Intoxicated with intimacy": the lyric voice in John Donne's Holy sonnets: Unruly autobiography -- Donne's Holy sonnets -- Donne's lyric self -- The lyric voice -- "The circle of chalk": narrative voice in Primo Levi's The periodic table: The periodic table -- The aspiration to narrative -- Narrative instability -- "The rich and messy domain" -- "Survival and distance": the dramatic voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach: Einstein on the beach -- Dramatic voice in Einstein -- The dramatic voice and religion -- The dramatic self -- "Harmonized chaos": the mixed voice of Coleridge's Biographia literaria: The biographia literaria -- The form of the Biographia -- Dissociation, fragmentation, and incoherence -- Harmony and unity -- Ramifications: the "mixed" self -- Conclusion: genre and instability. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch.. 6. ch. 7.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GB97-21238
Donne, John, 1572-1631. Holy sonnets. Wilson, Robert, 1941- Einstein on the beach. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Biographia literaria. Levi, Primo. Sistema periodico.
Religious literature, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Self in literature. Literary form.