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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... soul and body” (153).” The other two texts are conspicuously secular. Their subject is the ecstatic union of human lovers: John Donne's “The Ecstasie”, in which the lovers experience “mystic union of a NeoPlatonic order” (142); and the ...
... soul and body” (153).” The other two texts are conspicuously secular. Their subject is the ecstatic union of human lovers: John Donne's “The Ecstasie”, in which the lovers experience “mystic union of a NeoPlatonic order” (142); and the ...
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... soul in order that it may be filled by God”. This process is crucial. Tsur has elsewhere elaborated at great length on the “Obtrusive Rhythms & Emotive Crescendo”, which sometimes yield what he has called “poetry of altered states of ...
... soul in order that it may be filled by God”. This process is crucial. Tsur has elsewhere elaborated at great length on the “Obtrusive Rhythms & Emotive Crescendo”, which sometimes yield what he has called “poetry of altered states of ...
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... soul in order that it may be filled by God”—except that the vacant soul is filled here not by God, but by some intense, blissful experience. At this point one should become aware of a most disconcerting problem that haunted us ...
... soul in order that it may be filled by God”—except that the vacant soul is filled here not by God, but by some intense, blissful experience. At this point one should become aware of a most disconcerting problem that haunted us ...
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... soul of man. Thus the soul becomes its scene and the soul's path through the abysmal multiplicity of things to the experience of the Divine Reality, now conceived as the primordial unity of all things, becomes its main preoccupation ...
... soul of man. Thus the soul becomes its scene and the soul's path through the abysmal multiplicity of things to the experience of the Divine Reality, now conceived as the primordial unity of all things, becomes its main preoccupation ...
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... soul; “God becomes experience”. Hence (2) whereas prayer can be the concern either of the community or of the individual, the mystic experience is, primarily, a matter of the individual living through intense and direct contact with God ...
... soul; “God becomes experience”. Hence (2) whereas prayer can be the concern either of the community or of the individual, the mystic experience is, primarily, a matter of the individual living through intense and direct contact with God ...
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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