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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... positions. We also have stress pattern, the irregularly alternating stressed and unstressed syllables; and patterns of ... position + stressed syllable + Sound pattern) as, for instance, in. Tyger,. tyger,. borning. bright ." | Such fine ...
... positions. We also have stress pattern, the irregularly alternating stressed and unstressed syllables; and patterns of ... position + stressed syllable + Sound pattern) as, for instance, in. Tyger,. tyger,. borning. bright ." | Such fine ...
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... position of having the pain, dream, etc., is actually in no better position to know it than anyone else. Their reason for saying so is that if I ask how anyone knows that he has dreamed, or had a pain, I realize that his ability to ...
... position of having the pain, dream, etc., is actually in no better position to know it than anyone else. Their reason for saying so is that if I ask how anyone knows that he has dreamed, or had a pain, I realize that his ability to ...
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... positions in the iambic pattern, As yet but knock, bréathe, shíne, and Séek to ménd W S W S W S W S W S and Your förce to breake, blówe, buirn and máke me néw W S W S W S W S W S It should be noticed, however, that the three verbs ...
... positions in the iambic pattern, As yet but knock, bréathe, shíne, and Séek to ménd W S W S W S W S W S and Your förce to breake, blówe, buirn and máke me néw W S W S W S W S W S It should be noticed, however, that the three verbs ...
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... position: on the one hand, they are (or were) in direct contact with the inaccessible reality beyond the Ultimate limit, but now they are “shut out”; at the same time, they are accessible to humans. Eternity, which is infinite duration ...
... position: on the one hand, they are (or were) in direct contact with the inaccessible reality beyond the Ultimate limit, but now they are “shut out”; at the same time, they are accessible to humans. Eternity, which is infinite duration ...
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... position too: The mystics, too, speak of creation out of nothing; in fact, it is one of their favourite formulae. [...] This Nothing from which everything has sprung is by no means a mere negation; only to us does it present no ...
... position too: The mystics, too, speak of creation out of nothing; in fact, it is one of their favourite formulae. [...] This Nothing from which everything has sprung is by no means a mere negation; only to us does it present no ...
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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