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This article suggests a method of 'differential' reading—that is, reading for the affective surplus beyond a text's semantics—in order to analyse the role of affect in John Donne's poetry. Derived from contrasting several twenty-first-century theories of affect (Massumi, Sedgwick, Brinkema), such a differential reading wants to explore the way in which affect is expressed through poetic form and through the more immediately experiential, or material, dimensions of a poem: that is, through its texture. Donne's valediction poems make use both of their evocation of a concrete materiality that affords touching and being touched and of their creation of cognitive intensity through semantic overdetermination to perform affect in their poetic language, allowing for affective experience and cognitive reading to merge in a blend of thinking and feeling.
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Parergon publishes articles and book reviews on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies. It has a particular focus on research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Fully refereed and with an international Advisory Board, Parergon is the Southern Hemisphere"s leading journal for early European research. It is published by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) and has close links with the ARC Network for Early European Research.
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