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Albrecht, Roberta J. was born on May 27, 1945. Daughter of Robert H. and Beverly (Burgess) Albrecht.
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The Virgin Mary as Alchemical and Lullian Reference in Donne (Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture) (Hardback) - Common
(Demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 123...)
Demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 1232-1316) upon Donne. The author shows how Donne refashioned Lull's abstract version of Mary and used this "Mary" to include Muslims and Jews in the church universal. This study will appeal to new historicists and those interested in alchemy, emblems, or theology.
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Using Alchemical Memory Techniques for the Interpretation of Literature: John Donne, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw
(This study examines the ways in which three seventeenth-c...)
This study examines the ways in which three seventeenth-century metaphysical poets, Donne, Herbert, and Crashaw, used mnemonic devices from Raymond Lull to express dissenting views of purgatory. Studying three alchemico-Lullian signs - the fiery sword, mercurial tears, and the bloody breast - Dr. Albrecht shows how these poets express purgatory as a place where the process of purification occurs and addressed this idea to both Calvinists and members of the Church of England. This book has thirty black and white photographs. Foreword by Helen B. Brooks
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The Virgin Mary As Alchemical And Lullian Reference In Donne (The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture)
(This groundbreaking study demonstrates the profound influ...)
This groundbreaking study demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 1232-1316?) upon Donne. Albrecht traces Donne's ecumenical vision back to Lull, back to Pico della Mirandola, Lull's disciple, and back to the Jewish cabala, sources for both. She shows how Donne refashioned Lull's abstract version of Mary and, like Lull, used this "Mary" to include Muslims and Jews in the church universal. She shows how pseudo-Lullian alchemical theories allowed him to describe, with impunity, Mary's function in "theologial alchemy," a works-oriented theology that included the female principle in the Tetragrammaton - that name that cannot be spoken. Finally, she shows how Donne incorporated the corporeal images of medieval iconography into Lull's mnemotechnics in order to construct texts whereby God's attributes, perceived as a series of ever-changing combinations, reveal an ecumenical frame of mind far more advanced than hitherto supposed. This study will appeal to new historicists and those interested in alchemy, emblems, or theology. Roberta J. Albrecht is an independent scholar.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1575910942/?tag=2022091-20
Roberta J. Albrecht
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Education
Master of Arts in English, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, 1979. Postgraduate, New York University, 1993.
Career
Teaching assistant Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1979—1981, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1981—1983. Instructor freshman composition Concordia College, 1982—1984, assistant professor English Bronxville, New York, 1986—1992, director honors program, 1991—1992. Book reviewer Books and Coffee series Concordia College, 1990, director symposium study The Stronger, 88.
Speaker, presenter in field, 2001—2005.
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Using Alchemical Memory Techniques for the Interpretation of Literature: John Donne, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw
(This study examines the ways in which three seventeenth-c...)
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The Virgin Mary As Alchemical And Lullian Reference In Donne (The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture)
(This groundbreaking study demonstrates the profound influ...)
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The Virgin Mary as Alchemical and Lullian Reference in Donne (Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture) (Hardback) - Common
(Demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 123...)
- The Virgin Mary as alchemical and Lullian reference in Donne. (The Apple-Zimmerm
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Using Alchemical Memory Techniques for the Interpretation of Literature: John Donne, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw
Membership
Member of DAV, Modern Language Association, Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, The John Donne Society.
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Married David B. Richards, August 13, 1983. Married Franklin D. Adams, December 26, 1967 (divorced September 1980). 1 child Emma Adams.
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Democrat