Poetry, Signs, and MagicUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 327 Seiten Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts - magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in this diminishment there occurs a verbal subtlety, and figural poignancy, commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures. Greene employs his well-known skills as a close reader to texts by a range of writers including a variety of contemporary theorists. in diverse contexts the distinction between disjunctive and conjunctive linguistics, dual theories of sound and meaning of crucial importance to Plato and Aristotle, to Catholic and Protestant debates on the sacraments, to the more recent skeptical methodologies of Derrida and de Man. Thomas M. Greene was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. |
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... body but what the body is to the soul , " and then goes on to comment : " The sequence garb - body - soul is in fact a perfectly consistent meta- phorical chain : garment is the visible outside of the body as the body is the visible ...
... body but what the body is to the soul , " and then goes on to comment : " The sequence garb - body - soul is in fact a perfectly consistent meta- phorical chain : garment is the visible outside of the body as the body is the visible ...
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... Body natural and a Body politic together indivisi- ble ; and these two Bodies are incorporated in one Person , and make one Body and not divers . " 13 The king's biological body incarnates English kingship , incarnates the perennial ...
... Body natural and a Body politic together indivisi- ble ; and these two Bodies are incorporated in one Person , and make one Body and not divers . " 13 The king's biological body incarnates English kingship , incarnates the perennial ...
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... Body . New York : Cambridge Uni- versity Press , 1993 . Frazer , James . The Golden Bough . Vols 1 and 2 : The Magic ... Body in the Balet Comique de la Royne . " Corps Mystique , Corps Sacré : Textual Transfigurations of the Body from ...
... Body . New York : Cambridge Uni- versity Press , 1993 . Frazer , James . The Golden Bough . Vols 1 and 2 : The Magic ... Body in the Balet Comique de la Royne . " Corps Mystique , Corps Sacré : Textual Transfigurations of the Body from ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Rabelais and the Language of Malediction | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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