Confessional Poetics: Repentance and Confession in Early Modern Devotional Verse

我的研究将集中在早期现代虔诚抒情中的忏悔和忏悔语言。通过展示彼得拉克对宗教诗歌的影响，并通过考察跨教派忏悔的圣礼地位，我将对诗歌中的比喻提供一种新的解释，如神的不可言喻和“神圣的戏仿”，这些比喻与宽恕的不确定性作斗争。强调忏悔的性别化身体体验的灵性形式，将引导我重新思考自我训诫(因此，内部/外部二分法)在自我和抒情的文化史中的中心地位。

My research will focus on the language of repentance and confession in the early modern devotional lyric. By demonstrating the influence of Petrarch on religious poetry, and by examining the sacramental status of confession across denominations, I will offer a novel interpretation of poetic tropes such as divine ineffability and "sacred parody", which grapple with the uncertainty of forgiveness. Forms of spirituality which emphasize a gendered bodily experience of repentance will then lead me to reconsider the centrality of self-exegesis (and therefore of the inner/outer dichotomy) in the cultural history of the self and of the lyric.