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 can be read as a poem, a prayer or a meditation at different times, following up the changing implications of the changing dominant functions. This chapter quotes the article “Aesthetic Ambiguity” by the psychoanalyst Ernst Kris ...
... Donne can be read as a poem, a prayer or a meditation at different times, following up the changing implications of the changing dominant functions. This chapter quotes the article “Aesthetic Ambiguity” by the psychoanalyst Ernst Kris ...
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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, William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot, and of two Mediaeval poets, Hebrew and Armenian, Shlomo Ibn Gabirol and Kostandin of Erznka. Ibn Gabirol's and Kostandin's texts also touch upon the problem of fusing the personalistic and ...
... Donne, William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot, and of two Mediaeval poets, Hebrew and Armenian, Shlomo Ibn Gabirol and Kostandin of Erznka. Ibn Gabirol's and Kostandin's texts also touch upon the problem of fusing the personalistic and ...
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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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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