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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... question whether the wafer and wine recall Christ's sacrificial body and blood or whether they literally become the body and blood . Once again the question is what kind of gap , if any , separates the representation from the thing rep ...
... question whether the wafer and wine recall Christ's sacrificial body and blood or whether they literally become the body and blood . Once again the question is what kind of gap , if any , separates the representation from the thing rep ...
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... question really did matter . They also show that the question was overshadowed by the temptation of magic , whether the magic was perceived as present in the sacraments , or in witchcraft , or in the beneficent natural magic of a Ficino ...
... question really did matter . They also show that the question was overshadowed by the temptation of magic , whether the magic was perceived as present in the sacraments , or in witchcraft , or in the beneficent natural magic of a Ficino ...
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... QUESTION OF TEXTUAL INTERPRETA- tion . In the last scene of Richard II , the earl of Northumberland en- ters bringing news for the new king , Henry IV . A conventional stag- ing would have him kneel before the seated king as he speaks ...
... QUESTION OF TEXTUAL INTERPRETA- tion . In the last scene of Richard II , the earl of Northumberland en- ters bringing news for the new king , Henry IV . A conventional stag- ing would have him kneel before the seated king as he speaks ...
Inhalt
Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Rabelais and the Language of Malediction | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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