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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... . . . . . . . . . 349 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 ...
... . . . . . . . . . 349 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 ...
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... reference also includes an empirical study of the rhythmical performance of that “endless” run-on sentence. I have published during the years three Hebrew books and a number of articles on mediaeval Hebrew poetry, a vast section of ...
... reference also includes an empirical study of the rhythmical performance of that “endless” run-on sentence. I have published during the years three Hebrew books and a number of articles on mediaeval Hebrew poetry, a vast section of ...
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... James, 3 The exact reference according to Beit-Hallahmi & Arggle (ibid.) is: Hay D. & Heald G. (1987) Religion is Good for You, New Society, 17 April. whose book The Varieties Of Religious Experience (1902) is subtitled.
... James, 3 The exact reference according to Beit-Hallahmi & Arggle (ibid.) is: Hay D. & Heald G. (1987) Religion is Good for You, New Society, 17 April. whose book The Varieties Of Religious Experience (1902) is subtitled.
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... that Dante's image is less apt than Wordsworth's, only that the applicability of Bodkin's comment is more conspicuous with reference to Wordsworth's image than to Dante's. This poem can be taken, then, as a prototype of.
... that Dante's image is less apt than Wordsworth's, only that the applicability of Bodkin's comment is more conspicuous with reference to Wordsworth's image than to Dante's. This poem can be taken, then, as a prototype of.
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... reference to a very different image in Dante's “Paradiso'', characterising its effect as “the absence of any sensation of effort, the wonder at effortless attainment of a new sphere”. To this we may add Michael A. Persinger's comment in ...
... reference to a very different image in Dante's “Paradiso'', characterising its effect as “the absence of any sensation of effort, the wonder at effortless attainment of a new sphere”. To this we may add Michael A. Persinger's comment in ...
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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