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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... chapter on Cognitive Poetics to a recent book, Cognitive Stylistics–Language and Cognition in Text Analysis; it includes a detailed close reading of Keats's “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” as a poem whose structure suggests an altered ...
... chapter on Cognitive Poetics to a recent book, Cognitive Stylistics–Language and Cognition in Text Analysis; it includes a detailed close reading of Keats's “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” as a poem whose structure suggests an altered ...
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... Chapter 8 will be published in a special issue on literature and consciousness in Journal of Consciousness Studies. Motti Benari co-operated with me during part of the project and made valuable contributions throughout the study; in ...
... Chapter 8 will be published in a special issue on literature and consciousness in Journal of Consciousness Studies. Motti Benari co-operated with me during part of the project and made valuable contributions throughout the study; in ...
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... Chapter 1 “Introduction: Means, Effects, and Assumptions”. The first section of this introductory chapter offers an overview of attempts to define varieties of religious, mystic and meditative experiences. The second section points out ...
... Chapter 1 “Introduction: Means, Effects, and Assumptions”. The first section of this introductory chapter offers an overview of attempts to define varieties of religious, mystic and meditative experiences. The second section points out ...
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... Chapter 4. “'Composition of Place', Experiential Set, and the Meditative Poem”. This chapter discusses two crucial aspects of Jesuit meditation and what Louis Martz calls “Poetry of Meditation”. Martz and some seventeenth century ...
... Chapter 4. “'Composition of Place', Experiential Set, and the Meditative Poem”. This chapter discusses two crucial aspects of Jesuit meditation and what Louis Martz calls “Poetry of Meditation”. Martz and some seventeenth century ...
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... Chapter 5. “Mystic Poetry—Metaphysical, Baroque and Romantic”. An important assumption of the present study is that devotional, meditative, or mystic poetry is first of all poetry, shaped and constrained by the possibilities and ...
... Chapter 5. “Mystic Poetry—Metaphysical, Baroque and Romantic”. An important assumption of the present study is that devotional, meditative, or mystic poetry is first of all poetry, shaped and constrained by the possibilities and ...
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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