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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... characteristics of the source phenomenon are sampled for representation; * the target system is sufficiently fine-grained to capture the most salient features of the source phenomenon; * the nearest options of the target system are ...
... characteristics of the source phenomenon are sampled for representation; * the target system is sufficiently fine-grained to capture the most salient features of the source phenomenon; * the nearest options of the target system are ...
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... characteristic of religious experience, or at least to display them. We also assume that religious poetry is sometimes quite successful in doing so.2 Our main innovation in this respect is that we take this assumption more seriously ...
... characteristic of religious experience, or at least to display them. We also assume that religious poetry is sometimes quite successful in doing so.2 Our main innovation in this respect is that we take this assumption more seriously ...
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... characteristics having a family resemblance. “Family resemblance” refers to relations among members of categories where two members might not resemble each other, while both resemble a third member, like a child who resembles both his ...
... characteristics having a family resemblance. “Family resemblance” refers to relations among members of categories where two members might not resemble each other, while both resemble a third member, like a child who resembles both his ...
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... characteristics of mystic-religious poetry and of the meditative poetry stemming from Jesuit meditation loom large in certain kinds of secular poetry. Let us mention only a few of those authors, who had the greatest influence on our ...
... characteristics of mystic-religious poetry and of the meditative poetry stemming from Jesuit meditation loom large in certain kinds of secular poetry. Let us mention only a few of those authors, who had the greatest influence on our ...
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... characteristic pitch interval between them, roughly a minor third. Each vowel has its characteristic “formant structure” (i.e., energy concentrations, at specified pitch ranges); as Tsur (2001) has shown, the formant structure of the ...
... characteristic pitch interval between them, roughly a minor third. Each vowel has its characteristic “formant structure” (i.e., energy concentrations, at specified pitch ranges); as Tsur (2001) has shown, the formant structure of the ...
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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