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 strán (strany)

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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Preface
7
2
24
Poem Prayer and Meditation
39
3
45
5
119
6
128
The Sublime and the Absolute Limit
141
7
147
8
176
10
182
199
263
11
284
A Cognitive Analysis
317
The Asymmetry of Sacred Sexual and Filial Love
349
References
359
Index
369

The Numinous the Infernal and Agnus
167

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