On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and Its Mystic-secular Counterpart : a Study in Cognitive Poetics

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Imprint Academic, 2003 - 380 páginas

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.

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Means Effects and Assumptions
11
7
93
The Numinous the Infernal and Agnus
167
8
176
Visual and Auditory Ingenuities in Mystic Poetry
199
9
207
Oceanic Dedifferentiation Thing Destruction and Mystic Poetry
231
10
243
11
284
12
295
Religious Imagery in Poetry
317
13
332
in Figurative Language
349
References
359
Index
369
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The Infernal and the HybridBosch and Dante
263

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