The poetics of transubstantiation
Subtitle: from theology to metaphor
By: edited by Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini.
Contributors: Burnham, Douglas.; Giaccherini, Enrico, 1947-
Series: Studies in European cultural transition; v. 27
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History; English literature -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- Great Britain.; Transubstantiation -- History of doctrines.; Transubstantiation in literature.; Lord's Supper in literature.; Sacraments in literature.; Theology in literature.; Metaphor.
Description: "The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favoring an interartistic and comparative perspective, a wide range of critical approaches, from the philosophical to the semiological, from cultural materialism to gender and queer studies, it is brought to bear on authors ranging from Descartes, Shakespeare, Joyce to Macpherson, Madox Ford, and Winterson, as well as on contemporary sculpture, and an Italian adaptation of Conrad for the screen in an unusually comic vein.

The volume will be of interest to those concerned with the cultural history of Christianity and with the remarkable critical and theoretical insights generated by contemporary approaches to this traditional theme."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The riddle of transubstantiation / Douglas Burnham; title: Real accidents, surfaces and digestions : Descartes and the 'very easily explained' transubstantiation / Tomaso Cavallo; title: The transubstantial bard : Shakespeare and Catholicism / Michael Davies; title: Transubstantiating the performance : towards a mimetic narrative in Hamlet's Hecuba scene / Silvia Bigliazzi; title: Transubstantiating love : John Donne and cultural criticism / Andy Mousley; title: A 'deformed' Christianity: ethical transubstantiation in English Reformation plays / Nicoletta Caputo; title: From substantial body into evanescent ghost : the world of James Macpherson's ossianic 'fragments' / Laura Giovannelli; title: Shakespeare as Paraclitus : transubstantiation in Joyce and T.S. Eliot / Francesco Gozzi; title: Food for the soul : reading Mrs Ramsay's boeuf en daube / Catherine Burgass; title: Reformations : Ford Madox Ford and transubstantiation / Martin Stannard; title: Lost in translation : gender and the figure of the translator in contemporary queer fiction / Emma Parker; title: Conrad and Scola : transposing the Heart of darkness into film / Mario Curreli; title: RSC 1999 : enter guilt on the stage of conscience : the family reunion by T.S. Eliot / Carla Dente; title: Embodying the past : vocal transubstantiation in Erri de Luca's Tu, mio / Marina Spunta; title: Sculptural transubstantiations : reflections upon wax, flesh and stone, blood, bread and bone / Alison Yarrington.