Reading Rapture: Richard Crashaw's Saint Teresa

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2019-03-02 DOI:10.1353/SEL.2019.0006

J. Crewe

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Abstract

Abstract:This article picks up on Jacques Lacan's notorious comment on Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, namely that she is obviously experiencing orgasm ("elle jouit"), to broach the topic of sacred erotics in Richard Crashaw's almost-contemporary Saint Teresa poems. For me, Lacan's comment is not an endpoint or revelation, but rather a starting point for the consideration of Crashaw's sacralization of Saint Teresa's ecstasy in contrast to its desacralization by Lacan and in psychoanalysis more generally. The poem obviously calls for contextual reading, but reading rapture, whether as saintly or scandalous, has an unfinished history of its own, and the phenomenon—or "thing," as Teresa calls it—remains an object of contention, as does the queer-feminine sexuality with which it is often associated.

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阅读狂喜:理查德·克拉肖的《圣特蕾莎》

摘要:本文以雅克·拉康对Gian Lorenzo Bernini的雕塑《圣特蕾莎的狂喜》(Ecstasy of Saint Teresa)的“她显然正在经历性高潮”(“elle jouit”)的评论为例，探讨理查德·克拉肖(Richard crasshaw)几乎同时代的圣特蕾莎诗歌中的神圣情色话题。对我来说，拉康的评论不是一个终点或启示，而是一个起点，来考虑克拉肖对圣特蕾莎的狂喜的神圣化，与拉康和更普遍的精神分析的去神圣化形成对比。这首诗显然需要上下文阅读，但阅读狂喜，无论是神圣的还是可耻的，都有自己未完成的历史，这种现象——或者特蕾莎所说的“事物”——仍然是一个争论的对象，就像它经常与酷儿女性性行为联系在一起一样。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.