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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... orientation are typically right-hemisphere activities of the brain. “Seeing the place” activates the orientation mechanism and puts the brain into an operative mode which conforms with meditation. This hypothesis was supported by a ...
... orientation are typically right-hemisphere activities of the brain. “Seeing the place” activates the orientation mechanism and puts the brain into an operative mode which conforms with meditation. This hypothesis was supported by a ...
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... orientation mechanism evoked by the landscape renders the compact abstractions diffuse, which may be perceived as an intense, supersensuous presence. This chapter discusses the handling of a metaphysical image in a very minor ...
... orientation mechanism evoked by the landscape renders the compact abstractions diffuse, which may be perceived as an intense, supersensuous presence. This chapter discusses the handling of a metaphysical image in a very minor ...
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... orientation, or the mechanisms for alleviating cognitive overload. From such a perspective, the Lakoffean conception of conceptual metaphor based on spatial imagery appears to be congenial to human cognition, but only a small part of a ...
... orientation, or the mechanisms for alleviating cognitive overload. From such a perspective, the Lakoffean conception of conceptual metaphor based on spatial imagery appears to be congenial to human cognition, but only a small part of a ...
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... orientation. Some brain scientists (e.g., Marcel Kinsbourne) assume that both kinds of processes consist of streams of information describable in terms of semantic features. It will be suggested in chapter 4 that the semantic features ...
... orientation. Some brain scientists (e.g., Marcel Kinsbourne) assume that both kinds of processes consist of streams of information describable in terms of semantic features. It will be suggested in chapter 4 that the semantic features ...
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... oriented), to which the referential function is subordinated. Now, suppose the sentence is uttered in a play such as Waiting for Godot. Here it may serve the phatic function: it is said just in order to say something, to maintain ...
... oriented), to which the referential function is subordinated. Now, suppose the sentence is uttered in a play such as Waiting for Godot. Here it may serve the phatic function: it is said just in order to say something, to maintain ...
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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