On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and Its Mystic-secular Counterpart : a Study in Cognitive PoeticsThis book studies how poetic structure transforms verbal imitations of religious experience into concepts. The book investigates how such a conceptual language can convey such non-conceptual experiences as meditation, ecstasy or mystic insights. Briefly, it explores how the poet, by using words, can express the 'ineffable'. It submits to close reading English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Armenian and Hebrew texts, from the Bible, through medieval, renaissance, metaphysical, and baroque poetry, to romantic and symbolistic poetry. |
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Contents
Means Effects and Assumptions | 11 |
7 | 93 |
The Numinous the Infernal and Agnus | 167 |
8 | 176 |
Visual and Auditory Ingenuities in Mystic Poetry | 199 |
9 | 207 |
Oceanic Dedifferentiation Thing Destruction and Mystic Poetry | 231 |
10 | 243 |
The Infernal and the HybridBosch and Dante | 263 |
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On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in ... Reuven Tsur Limited preview - 2015 |
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abstract aesthetic Andreas Gryphius aspects Auschwitz Baroque boundaries chapter cognitive Cognitive Poetics composition of place conception concrete context contrast convergent devices diffuse discussed Donne Donne's ecstatic effect Ehrenzweig elements evoke excerpt fire focus function gestalt-free heaven Hebrew Herbert's human Ibn Gabirol's imagery instance intense kind language light Martz meaning meditation mental metaphor Metaphysical poetry metonymy metric Milton mystic experience mystic poetry nature Neo-Platonic nothingness noun numinous objects orientation Paradise Lost paradox passage pattern perceived perception phonetic phrase physical Platonic poem poet poetic potentials predicate present prosodic psychological quatrain quoted reader reality reference reinforced religious rhyme rhythm romantic romantic poetry Rudolf Otto semantic semiotic sense sestet sonnet spatial speaker speech sounds stanza structure sublime suggests syllables syntactic tercet terza rima thing-free tion transcendence trochaic Tsur Tyger typically ultimate limit undifferentiated verb verbal verse visual shapes witty words world picture
References to this book
'Kubla Khan' Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style: A ... Reuven Tsur No preview available - 2006 |