Saint Mary's

Through the reading records of Donne's poems and the concept of multiple referentiality, this study examines the social dimensions of early modern genres and the relationship among poetics, rhetoric and the Renaissance doctrines of imitation, placing systematic attention on how the differences oral and written modes of expression influences the process of reading and the early modern understanding of genre.
Review
"This study has a simple, but bold and consequential, argument: that, in an age of widespread manuscript transmission of texts, readers... participated in process of literary creation through their appropriation of the texts they received and freely interpreted poems according to their own social positions and needs." - Prof. Arthur F. Marotti Wayne State University

"Should this dialogue continue, and continue to produce results such as Takseva's work, I have no doubt that Donne studies will continue to be as fruitful in this century as they were in the previous." - Prof. David Galbraith University of Toronto"