Deixis In The Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “here,” “this,” “come”

Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric DOI: 10.1057/9781137411310.0001 Also by Heather Dubrow AS YOU LIKE IT (ed.) BORDER CROSSINGS CAPTIVE VICTORS: Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems and Sonnets THE CHALLENGES OF ORPHEUS: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England ECHOES OF DESIRE: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses FORMS AND HOLLOWS GENRE A HAPPIER EDEN: The Politics of Marriage in the Stuart Epithalamium THE HISTORICAL RENAISSANCE: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture (ed. with Richard Strier) SHAKESPEARE AND DOMESTIC LOSS: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation TRANSFORMATION AND REPETITION DOI: 10.1057/9781137411310.0001 Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “Here,” “This,” “Come” Heather Dubrow John D. Boyd, SJ, Chair in the Poetic Imagination, Fordham University, USA DOI: 10.1057/9781137411310.0001 © Heather Dubrow 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-41130-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-68167-9 DOI 10.1057/9781137411310 ISBN 978-1-137-41131-0 (eBook) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. www.palgrave.com/pivot For Adam Evan Rowe and Christian Wright and for Elisabeth Yandell McNeil and Laura Yandell McNeil DOI: 10.1057/9781137411310.0001 Contents Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Delimitations, Definitions, Disciplines vi 1 1 Test-Driving Deixis: Formulating Issues, Coining Concepts 22 2 Edmund Spenser’s “Epithalamion” and Strategic Spatiality 42 3 William Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Deictic Textuality 60 4 Lady Mary Wroth’s Song 1 and Some Versions of Pastoral Deixis 78 5 John Donne’s “Hymne to God my God, in my Sicknesse” and Prevenient Proximity 93 6 Here Today and Gone Tomorrow? Conclusions and Invitations 111 Index 126 DOI: 10.1057/9781137411310.0001 Acknowledgments The pointing functions of deictics are often complicated and compromised when one is writing or reading a poem – but pointing to people deserving thanks is an unalloyed joy when one is completing a book. Many resources that made writing this book possible were provided by the endowed chair at Fordham that I am fortunate enough to hold, the John D. Boyd, SJ, Chair in the Poetic Imagination.