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- Title: Limited Knowledge and the Tractarian Doctrine of Reserve in Christina Rossetti's the Face of the Deep (Critical Essay)
- Author : Victorian Poetry
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.--I Corinthians 13.9-12 Much recent criticism that deals in any depth with specific Tractarian tendencies in Rossetti's devotional prose tends to note the ways in which Rossetti's position as a female interpreter of Scripture seems to contradict the "party line" of the Tractarians that would forbid women from such interpretive activity. For example, while Robert Kachur's "Repositioning the Female Christian Reader: Christina Rossetti as Tractarian Hermeneut in The Face of the Deep" seeks ostensibly to examine the ways in which Rossetti's exegetical method can properly be called "Tractarian," he focuses mainly on Rossetti's use of Tractarianism as a kind of subversive pattern of reading that shuns the authoritative voice of patriarchal biblical interpretation. When Kachur does focus on specific Tractarian tenets, he examines Rossetti's reliance on Keble's notion of the interdependence of poetry and religion; but ultimately, he concludes that Rossetti "question[s] the patriarchal interpretations of the Bible handed down to her." (1)