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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... quoted above, in chapter 3). In such a reading wit is rather moderate. By contrast, according to the conventions of the English Sonnet, the final couplet should effect a surprise ending, even a reversal of all that's said in the ...
... quoted above, in chapter 3). In such a reading wit is rather moderate. By contrast, according to the conventions of the English Sonnet, the final couplet should effect a surprise ending, even a reversal of all that's said in the ...
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... quoting an account of such an experience, he observes: “Note the repeated references to vestibular sensations: 'floating,” 'lifted,' 'moving,' 'spinning” (27). The phrase “as a cloud floating high” is introduced, as it were, merely as a ...
... quoting an account of such an experience, he observes: “Note the repeated references to vestibular sensations: 'floating,” 'lifted,' 'moving,' 'spinning” (27). The phrase “as a cloud floating high” is introduced, as it were, merely as a ...
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... (quoted by Summers, p. 75). For some research purposes it might be useful to separate theoretically the texts from their pragmatical use (“sentence meaning” from “utterer's meaning”), for other purposes it might not. The texts themselves ...
... (quoted by Summers, p. 75). For some research purposes it might be useful to separate theoretically the texts from their pragmatical use (“sentence meaning” from “utterer's meaning”), for other purposes it might not. The texts themselves ...
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... quoted from Gershom Scholem: in mystical tendencies “new religious impulses may and do arise which threaten to conflict with the scale of values established by historical religion”. In line 11, “Divorce mee” is linked with love-imagery ...
... quoted from Gershom Scholem: in mystical tendencies “new religious impulses may and do arise which threaten to conflict with the scale of values established by historical religion”. In line 11, “Divorce mee” is linked with love-imagery ...
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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