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On the shore of nothingness : space, rhythm, and semantic structure in religious poetry and its mystic-secular counterpart : a study in cognitive poetics / Reuven Tsur with contributions by Motti Benari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsur, Reuven, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious poetry--History and criticism.
- Religious poetry.
- Mysticism in literature.
- Poetics--Psychological aspects.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, [2003]
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Contents ; Front matter ; Title page ; Publisher information ; Epigraph ; Body matter ; Preface ; Synopsis; 1. Introduction: Means, Effects, and Assumptions ; 2. Poem, Prayer and Meditation: An Exercise in Literary Semantics ; 3. The Ultimate Limit - Transcendence and Appresentation ; 4. Composition of Place, Experiential Set, and the Meditative Poem ; 5. Mystic Poetry - Metaphysical, Baroque and Romantic ; 6. The Sublime and the Absolute Limit ; 7. Rhythmic Structure and Religious Poetry - The Numinous, the Infernal, and Agnus Dei
- 8. Visual and Auditory Ingenuities in Mystic Poetry 9. Oceanic Dedifferentiation, ""Thing Destruction"", and Mystic Poetry ; 10. The Infernal and the Hybrid ; 11. Let There be Light and the Emanation of Light ; 12. Light, Fire, Prison: A Cognitive Analysis of Religious Imagery in Poetry ; 13. The Asymmetry of Sacred, Sexual and Filial Love in Figurative Language ; Back matter ; References; Index; Also available
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84540-555-2
- OCLC:
- 941700243
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