March 3, 2026

Donne’s Paranoid Poetics

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Paranoid cognition influences the interpretation of Donne’s sermons and poems, revealing complex emotional landscapes.
Key insights are drawn from the grammatical, rhetorical, and logical examination of Donne’s works, emphasizing intricate patterns.
The study contextualizes paranoid affect within literary theory, incorporating thoughts from Paul Ricoeur and Eve Sedgwick.
Understanding Donne’s writing through paranoid frameworks highlights the broader implications of emotional engagement in literature.

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This article explores patterns of paranoid cognition and interpretation in John Donne’s writing, using his sermons, satires, and love poems as case studies. I analyze the discursive infrastructure of paranoid thinking through close attention to its grammatical, rhetorical, and logical symptomatology before considering the entanglements of paranoid affect and academic reading through the work of Paul Ricoeur, Eve Sedgwick, and (perhaps more surprisingly) T. S. Eliot.

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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69a760fdc6e9836116a2e7b7 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2026.173.2.12

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