Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like "Here," "This," "Come" - Hardcover

by H. Dubrow (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.