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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... theory of language as conventional , a theory that conforms to common sense and that sep- arates sharply word and thing , the verbum from the res . Words , in Perkins's curious phrase , cannot have " the power of touching a sub- stance ...
... theory of language as conventional , a theory that conforms to common sense and that sep- arates sharply word and thing , the verbum from the res . Words , in Perkins's curious phrase , cannot have " the power of touching a sub- stance ...
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... theory of language that would have allowed him to formulate the workings of the maledictory language that we can reconstruct today ? Against the theory of conventionality in the Tiers Livre I've already mentioned— “ les voix . . . ne ...
... theory of language that would have allowed him to formulate the workings of the maledictory language that we can reconstruct today ? Against the theory of conventionality in the Tiers Livre I've already mentioned— “ les voix . . . ne ...
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... theory of malediction as safety valve , is the simplest and the most reassuring . The second , a magical theory attributing real destructive power to charged language , draws out the primitive and even atavistic assumptions apparently ...
... theory of malediction as safety valve , is the simplest and the most reassuring . The second , a magical theory attributing real destructive power to charged language , draws out the primitive and even atavistic assumptions apparently ...
Inhalt
Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Rabelais and the Language of Malediction | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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