Dubrow H. Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric. Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like Here, This, Come

New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2016 — 135 p. — ISBN10: 1137411309; ISBN13: 978-1137411303.This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments; but it also suggests parallels with both iconic and neglected texts from a range of later historical periods.Introduction: Delimitations, Definitions, Disciplines.
Test-Driving Deixis: Formulating Issues, Coining Concepts.
Edmund Spenser’s “Epithalamion” and Strategic Spatiality.
William Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Deictic Textuality.
Lady Mary Wroth’s Song 1 and Some Versions of Pastoral Deixis.
John Donne’s “Hymne to God my God, in my Sicknesse” and Prevenient Proximity.
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow? Conclusions and Invitations.