Exorcism and Its Texts : : Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain / / Hilaire Kallendorf.
Exorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonica...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | University of Toronto Romance Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue - A Force Within: The Importance of Demonic Possession for Early Modern Studies
- A Paradigm of Theologemes for Literary Exorcism
- Introduction: The Morphology of Exorcism, or a Grammar of Possession in Spanish and English Literature, 1550-1700
- 1. Demoniacs in the Drama: Theatricalities of Comic Possession and the Exorcism of the Body Politic
- 2. Possessed Pícaros and Satanic Satire
- 3. Romance, the Interlude, and Hagiographical Drama: The Humanization of Possession and Exorcism
- 4. Tragedy As the Absence or Failure of Exorcism
- 5. Self-Exorcism and the Rise of the Novel
- Conclusion: Liturgy in Literature, or Early Modern Literary Theory and the Christian Legitimate Marvellous
- Epilogue: Problematizing the Category of 'Demonic Possession
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index