Hopkins' Achieved Self

Professor David Anthony Downes reads Gerard Manley Hopkins through the literary prism of Paul Ricoeur's magisterial account of the human self. This is the first application of Ricoeur's writings to a major author.

Preface

ix

Prologue Hopkins' Hermeneutical Stages of Consciousness

1

(26)

Hopkins' Selving Hermeneutics

27

(12)

Selving The ``I Am'' in G. M. Hopkins

39

(14)

The Poetics of Volition in Hopkins

53

(20)

The Poetics of the Sacramental Word: Hope and Freedom

73

(58)

Poems of Existence

131

(50)

Postscript The Poetics of Redemption

181

(14)

Afterword Readers' Responses

195

(10)

Bibliography

205

(6)

Index

211

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Hopkins' Achieved Self

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