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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... Thing Destruction' and Mystic Poetry”. This chapter takes its point of departure from Anton Ehrenzweig (1970: 135) ... free and gestalt-free qualities and suspending the boundaries between self and not-self or, at least, between the ...
... Thing Destruction' and Mystic Poetry”. This chapter takes its point of departure from Anton Ehrenzweig (1970: 135) ... free and gestalt-free qualities and suspending the boundaries between self and not-self or, at least, between the ...
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... free and thing-free imagery. Such lowly-differentiated qualities may be reinforced by the mechanisms of spatial orientation, or the mechanisms for alleviating cognitive overload. From such a perspective, the Lakoffean conception of ...
... free and thing-free imagery. Such lowly-differentiated qualities may be reinforced by the mechanisms of spatial orientation, or the mechanisms for alleviating cognitive overload. From such a perspective, the Lakoffean conception of ...
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... thing-free, illusory appearances to the senses, upon which the multitude's fears or hopes-and-desires can be ... things about the unseen side of the cube or the door, because we have acquired the appropriate schemata, which contain ...
... thing-free, illusory appearances to the senses, upon which the multitude's fears or hopes-and-desires can be ... things about the unseen side of the cube or the door, because we have acquired the appropriate schemata, which contain ...
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... free and thing-free entity. What is more, Ronsard carefully emphasises that rather than a place as in Keats's sonnet (see below, excerpt 8), “nothingness” suggests here a state of existence. Two degrees of nonexistence are suggested ...
... free and thing-free entity. What is more, Ronsard carefully emphasises that rather than a place as in Keats's sonnet (see below, excerpt 8), “nothingness” suggests here a state of existence. Two degrees of nonexistence are suggested ...
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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