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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... the tale of his beasts: for who thinks that Esope writ it for actually true, were well worthy to have his name cronicled among the beasts he writeth of (p. 216). ferently. First, there are three verbs in succession, with no.
... the tale of his beasts: for who thinks that Esope writ it for actually true, were well worthy to have his name cronicled among the beasts he writeth of (p. 216). ferently. First, there are three verbs in succession, with no.
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... verbs in succession, with no reference to the respective persons of God. Then there comes a second succession of verbs, also with no reference to the respective persons. Thus, attention is focussed upon the amplification from gentle to ...
... verbs in succession, with no reference to the respective persons of God. Then there comes a second succession of verbs, also with no reference to the respective persons. Thus, attention is focussed upon the amplification from gentle to ...
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... verbs reinforce the intensity of the experience. Both ravish and thrall have strong connotations of ecstatic ... verbs “untie, or breake that knot againe” it has a cumulative impact of gradation, similar to lines 2 and 4. “Breake” too ...
... verbs reinforce the intensity of the experience. Both ravish and thrall have strong connotations of ecstatic ... verbs “untie, or breake that knot againe” it has a cumulative impact of gradation, similar to lines 2 and 4. “Breake” too ...
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... verb-series of mounting intensity, brings connotations of immense force and urgency to the experience, as well as ... verbs carry an unusual degree of perceptual immediacy, so to speak. The semantic features common to a number of these ...
... verb-series of mounting intensity, brings connotations of immense force and urgency to the experience, as well as ... verbs carry an unusual degree of perceptual immediacy, so to speak. The semantic features common to a number of these ...
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... verb yearning, a verb with two salient meaning components: [+PURPOSEFUL] and [+INTENSE EMOTION]. According to Kaufman's analysis, moving or striving toward some objective is of the essence of the “teleological model”; the component [+ ...
... verb yearning, a verb with two salient meaning components: [+PURPOSEFUL] and [+INTENSE EMOTION]. According to Kaufman's analysis, moving or striving toward some objective is of the essence of the “teleological model”; the component [+ ...
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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