Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric, 1st ed. 2015

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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 suggests parallels with both iconic and neglected texts from a range of later historical periods.
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Delimitations, Definitions, Disciplines 1. Test-driving Deixis: Formulating Issues, Coining Concepts 2. Edmund Spenser's 'Epithalamion' and Strategic Spatiality 3. William Shakespeare's Sonnets and Deictic Textuality 4. Lady Mary Wroth's Song I and Some Versions of Pastoral Deixis 5. John Donne's 'Hymne to God my God, in my Sicknesse' and Prevenient Proximity 6. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow? Conclusions and Invitations Notes Index

Heather Dubrow is John D. Boyd, SJ, Chair in the Poetic Imagination at Fordham University, USA; her earlier appointments include Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her previous publications include six scholarly books (most recently The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England); an edition of As You Like It; a collection of essays entitled The Historical Renaissance, co-edited with Richard Strier; and a collection of her own poetry, Forms and Hollows.