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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... poetic structure. We face a domain replete with paradoxes. It is not only the great paradoxes of religion and mysticism, but also those involved in the literary endeavour. We explore how poets attempt to express the ineffable by using ...
... poetic structure. We face a domain replete with paradoxes. It is not only the great paradoxes of religion and mysticism, but also those involved in the literary endeavour. We explore how poets attempt to express the ineffable by using ...
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... poetic codes of romantic and symbolistic poetry, for instance, are more fine-grained regarding the features required for conveying subjective experience than many other poetic codes. Consequently I found, paradoxically enough, that some ...
... poetic codes of romantic and symbolistic poetry, for instance, are more fine-grained regarding the features required for conveying subjective experience than many other poetic codes. Consequently I found, paradoxically enough, that some ...
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... Poetic codes developed by romantic and symbolistic poetry are more fine-grained than some other poetic codes precisely in those respects that can best convey the salient features of a mystic experience, or display a mystic quality ...
... Poetic codes developed by romantic and symbolistic poetry are more fine-grained than some other poetic codes precisely in those respects that can best convey the salient features of a mystic experience, or display a mystic quality ...
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... poetic communication, too: How does conceptual and sequential language communicate nonconceptual experiences? It will thus loom large in most chapters of this book. We also have to face the apparently unexplained fact that the ...
... poetic communication, too: How does conceptual and sequential language communicate nonconceptual experiences? It will thus loom large in most chapters of this book. We also have to face the apparently unexplained fact that the ...
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... poetic styles. This chapter adopts from John Crowe Ransom (1951) a distinction between three “ontological” models ... poet Andreas Gryphius, and the English romantic William Wordsworth. In both sonnets, the octet offers a landscape ...
... poetic styles. This chapter adopts from John Crowe Ransom (1951) a distinction between three “ontological” models ... poet Andreas Gryphius, and the English romantic William Wordsworth. In both sonnets, the octet offers a landscape ...
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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