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Book SynopsisProfessor David Anthony Downes reads Gerard Manley Hopkins through the literary prism of Paul Ricoeur's magisterial account of the human self. This is the first application of Ricoeur's writings to a major author.
Trade Review'Hopkins' Achieved Self' will attract the attention of specialist students and scholars, be they in fields of theology, religious literature or linguistic philosophy. -- Tray E.A. Martin * Notes and Queries *
I find particularly original and significant Prof. Downes' critique of the denigration of 'selving' in Modernism...I am also persuaded that applying Ricoeur to Hopkins in this context is original and that insufficient attention has been paid to Hopkins' philosophic exploration of 'selving.' -- Reviewer * Catholic University Press of America *
The book is new and original...It joins the notions of selfness and selving that the Victorian Hopkins sketched in his poetry and prose with the thought of Ricoeur...This is a challenging study. -- Michael Allsopp * Christianity and Literature *
The book is new and original...It joins the notions of selfness and selving that the Victorian Hopkins sketched in his poetry and prose with the thought of Ricoeur...This is a challenging study. -- Michael Allsopp * Christianity and Literature *
'Hopkins' Achieved Self' will attract the attention of specialist students and scholars, be they in fields of theology, religious literature or linguistic philosophy. -- Tray E.A. Martin * Notes and Queries *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Prologue: Hopkins' Hermeneutical Stages of Consciousness Chapter 3 Hopkins' Selving Hermeneutics Chapter 4 Selving The 'I Am' in G.M. Hopkins Chapter 5 The Poetics of Volition in Hopkins Chapter 6 The Poetics of the Sacramental Word: Hope and Freedom Chapter 7 Poems of Existence Chapter 8 The Poetics of Redemption Chapter 9 Readers' Responses Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 Index
