On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and Its Mystic-Secular CounterpartThis 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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... Donne's Holy Sonnet 7 (“At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow”). The other aspect discussed is that of mental set. Tellegen devised a test to assess the personality variable “absorption”. This is the personality variable that ...
... Donne's Holy Sonnet 7 (“At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow”). The other aspect discussed is that of mental set. Tellegen devised a test to assess the personality variable “absorption”. This is the personality variable that ...
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... Donne's Holy Sonnet 5 (“I am a little world”). In the former I examine how “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” and “to trace / their shadow with the magic hand of chance” arouse a vivid intuition of having had a glimpse of the world ...
... Donne's Holy Sonnet 5 (“I am a little world”). In the former I examine how “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” and “to trace / their shadow with the magic hand of chance” arouse a vivid intuition of having had a glimpse of the world ...
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... Donne's libertine poems than in Spenser's love poem. Two literary traditions are relevant to this sonnet. Viewed in these different traditions, two opposite effects arise in the poem. According to the Platonic conception, love between ...
... Donne's libertine poems than in Spenser's love poem. Two literary traditions are relevant to this sonnet. Viewed in these different traditions, two opposite effects arise in the poem. According to the Platonic conception, love between ...
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... Donne's “The Ecstasie”, in which the lovers experience “mystic union of a NeoPlatonic order” (142); and the scene of Isolde's Liebestod, at the end of Richard Wagner's music-drama, Tristan und Isolde. Spitzer's analysis of Isolde's ...
... Donne's “The Ecstasie”, in which the lovers experience “mystic union of a NeoPlatonic order” (142); and the scene of Isolde's Liebestod, at the end of Richard Wagner's music-drama, Tristan und Isolde. Spitzer's analysis of Isolde's ...
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... Donne's Anniversaries or even “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” cannot be experienced with the same intensity as some of his Holy Sonnets. Semiotic Systems—Conversion and Adequacy The issue at stake is the translation of perceived ...
... Donne's Anniversaries or even “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” cannot be experienced with the same intensity as some of his Holy Sonnets. Semiotic Systems—Conversion and Adequacy The issue at stake is the translation of perceived ...
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abstract Andreas Gryphius aspects Auschwitz Baroque boundaries chapter characteristic cognitive Cognitive Poetics composition of place conception conceptual metaphor consciousness context contrast convergent device diffuse discussed Donne Donne’s ecstatic effect Ehrenzweig elements emotional evoke excerpt fire focus function gestalt-free Hebrew Herbert’s human Ibn Gabirol imagery instance intense kind language light man’s Martz meaning meditation mental metaphor metaphysical poetry metonymy Milton mystic experience mystic poetry nature Neo-Platonic nothingness noun numinous objects one’s orientation Paradise Lost paradox passage pattern perceived perception periphrasis phrase physical Platonic poem poet poetic position potentials predicate present prosodic quatrain quoted reader reality reference reinforced religious poetry rhyme rhythm romantic romantic poetry Rudolf Otto semantic sense sestet sonnet soul spatial speech sounds stanza structure sublime suggests syllables syntactic thing-free tion transcendence trochaic Tsur Tyger typically undifferentiated verb verbal verse visual shapes witty words Wordsworth’s world picture