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Theological and literary discourses of blood in Baroque Culture
| I have been working on Bossuet and Corneille, looking at ways that they think of heredity and alliance through metaphors of blood. Bossuet takes me into the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and doctrine of the Eucharist, while Corneille develops a language of lineage and alliance. In a sense the genealogy of Jesus was thought of in terms of flows of blood, while through the sixteenth century the dominant metaphor was “flesh.” I also have a great deal on the German discourse of flesh and blood and will examine some of the English texts as well.
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