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Tears in heaven : tracing the contours of a pan-European transconfessional genre
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Boemler, Anne and Brazeau, Bryan (2022) Tears in heaven : tracing the contours of a pan-European transconfessional genre. Humanities, 11 (1). 4. doi:10.3390/h11010004 ISSN 2076-0787.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11010004
Abstract
This article explores the genesis, proliferation, and readership of an understudied genre of religious poetry in early modern Europe. The weeping poem—a devotional literary genre combining elements of epic narrative and Petrarchan lyric that focused specifically on the religious grief of biblical figures—swept across Europe in the forty years around the turn of the seventeenth century. Although this genre was instigated by the Italian Luigi Tansillo’s 1560 Le Lagrime di San Pietro and has often been read as exhibiting a distinctively Counter-Reformation spirituality, our survey of weeping poems uncovers the surprising reach of this genre across multiple languages and even into Protestant England. The range and popularity of this specific kind of weeping poetry across early modern national, linguistic, and confessional lines shows how this constellation of texts transmitted a new form of devotional affect founded on imaginative identification with weeping biblical narrators. In other words, these poems demonstrate how interiority, rather than factional political or theological difference, could be the basis for new emotional communities of worship. Moreover, the relative obscurity of this genre to scholars prompts new questions around the viability of continuing to explore early modern European literary traditions from the perspective of nationalist/linguistic/confessional frameworks.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Liberal Arts |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Counter-Reformation, Religious poetry, Tears in literature, Tansillo, Luigi,1510-1568 -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Humanities | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Open Access Publishing | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2076-0787 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | February 2022 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 11 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||||||||
| Article Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/h11010004 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 August 2022 | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 August 2022 |
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