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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... devices as Life? For who can look for lesse, that loveth Strife? {. or Herbert's famous “Easter Wings”. Chapter 9. “Oceanic Dedifferentiation, 'Thing Destruction' and Mystic Poetry”. This chapter takes its point of departure from Anton ...
... devices as Life? For who can look for lesse, that loveth Strife? {. or Herbert's famous “Easter Wings”. Chapter 9. “Oceanic Dedifferentiation, 'Thing Destruction' and Mystic Poetry”. This chapter takes its point of departure from Anton ...
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... devices are qualified when they enter into a religious context. Our concern is mainly with the effects and qualities perceived in the text, when stylistic and poetic means combine with a religious context. In this paragraph we will try ...
... devices are qualified when they enter into a religious context. Our concern is mainly with the effects and qualities perceived in the text, when stylistic and poetic means combine with a religious context. In this paragraph we will try ...
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... devices, that typically generate such qualities. Mysticism is a religion in which God “ceases to be an object and becomes an experience”, or in which “man lives in the presence of divinity”, an existence in which the abyss between this ...
... devices, that typically generate such qualities. Mysticism is a religion in which God “ceases to be an object and becomes an experience”, or in which “man lives in the presence of divinity”, an existence in which the abyss between this ...
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... reinforces the repeated hemistiches, and has an impetuous forward sweep with a | | From Blake's “The Tyger”—this poem will be discussed in great detail in chapter 7. 12 There is a comparable device in “The Tyger”, where.
... reinforces the repeated hemistiches, and has an impetuous forward sweep with a | | From Blake's “The Tyger”—this poem will be discussed in great detail in chapter 7. 12 There is a comparable device in “The Tyger”, where.
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... device in “The Tyger”, where there are six groups of four highly convergent lines with little or no syntactic prediction. The fifth stanza, however, begins with two parallel subordinate clauses, predicting a main clause in line 3: “When ...
... device in “The Tyger”, where there are six groups of four highly convergent lines with little or no syntactic prediction. The fifth stanza, however, begins with two parallel subordinate clauses, predicting a main clause in line 3: “When ...
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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