Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Performance of Resilience in the Face of Inner Conflict
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Performance of Resilience in the Face of Inner Conflict
Author(s): Tim NobleSubject(s): Poetry, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, British Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Gerard Manley Hopkins; Chantal Mouffe; agonistics; resilience; conflict resolution
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the “terrible sonnets” of the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). It shows how these poems offer an insight into a particular form of agonistics. Hopkins struggles with his understanding of self, of God, and of language, transforming experience into a fundamental clash of hegemonic visions of the world. Through resilience, there is not reconciliation but a re-visioning (therefore remediatising) of the possibility of human existence, which finds its home in language. Hopkins thus works between sound and sight and places a spiritual dimension into the political conversation about the task of being human. This challenge to any reductive approach is also, the article argues, an expression of resilience.
Journal: Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture
- Issue Year: 35/2025
- Issue No: 70
- Page Range: 226-239
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
