Personne : Guy, Isabelle
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Département de littérature, théâtre et cinéma, Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, Université Laval
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Publication Accès libre "This subtle knot" : the metaphysical conceit in John Donne's prose and poetry(2007) Guy, Isabelle; De Koninck, Thomas; Raspa, AnthonyThe present thesis seeks to define the role played by the Metaphysical conceit in the formulation of John Donne's vision of a unified cosmos. The conceit is here regarded as an element of style that probes into the nature of relationships, as well as a unifying element in Donne's works that enables him to translate into verse the intangible ties that bind a man to other human beings and to the Divine so as to render an abstract reality more apprehensible to the mind. To him, the individual self is indeed defined almost exclusively in terms of the manner in which it relates to other human beings, to the divine, or to the political and religious institutions that regulate his society. In most of the works scrutinized in the present thesis, Donne is in fact concerned with the representation of an ideal of communion that involves the dissolution of the individual self into a greater whole. In the works analyzed in the present thesis, Donne almost invariably formulates this ideal in terms of the relationship that unites body and soul in an individual, which he conceives as a reflection of the way in which the material and the spiritual interact in the universe. In his exploration of the ties that bind human beings together and to the Divine, the Metaphysical conceit is vital to the expression of his ideal of interrelatedness. This thesis therefore focuses on the way in which the conceit, as a literary device that compares relationships, reinforces his vision of a unified cosmos.