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Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne

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Index
Bold page numbers refer to illustrations.
“A Valediction forbidding mourning,” 129n346
Abrams, M.H., 118
alchemy, as mode of courtship in Deaths Duell, 247–48
Alighieri, Dante, Divine Comedy, 100n26l Allinson, Mark, 197n491
ambition
body metaphors for, 125–28
consubstantiality of form, 135–36
desire and, 69–70
dialectical inclusion, 124—25
in Donne's sermon at Whitehall on Proverbs 25:16 (3:10), 125–27
exempla for improper/proper, 57, 100–2, 155
as humour, 64
improper/proper ambition, 77–78, 93, 95–96, 124–27
terministic purification (holy ambition), 123–24
Ambrose, St., 199
Ames, William, 22n68, 63–64, 150n399, 157
amplification
definitions of, 167–68
in Donne's first sermon (1:1), 165–71, 174
logos and pathos in, 169–70, 172
methods: juxtaposition, 170; magnitudo, 60; progression, 168; Wright's list of, 63
topics for: biblical text, 77, 165, 168; metaphors, 135n36l; polyglot text, 20, 121, 167–71
anadiplosis, 60, 146, 257
analogical induction
for logical and pathetic proof, 102–8
meditative practices and, 110–13
anaphora, 84, 148–49, 211
anatomy
See body metaphors
anatomy theatres, 122
Anderson, Judith H., I4ln373, 240–41
Andrewes, Lancelot, 20n58, 106, 154, 198
Anne, Queen, Donne's sermon for (Denmark House, 1:5), 2, 21n65, 81–82, 123n334, 129–30, 137–40, 156
Ansclment, Raymond A., 119n322, 120n326, 120n328
Aphthonius, 21
Apollo, as emblem, 119, 120n326
apologia, 21
aporia, 211, 238, 251, 257
architecture
examples of Donne's use of, 225n534
as memory device, 225—28, 226–27, 230–31
See also Deaths Duell: architecture
Aristotle
catharsis, 200n497
definition of rhetoric, 6
ethos and practical wisdom, 195, 233
hierarchy of the good, 58
physical health and happiness, 122n330
rhetoric as persuasion, 104—5
arrangement of concepts, See dispositio ars moriendi traditions, 198–99, 201n499, 247

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