Poetry, Signs, and MagicUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 327 頁 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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... speak about this man , and even less easy to speak about his later career of the 1930s and 1940s . It is hard first , because he was subject to monumental political blindness ; second , because the thought of his later period is ...
... speak about this man , and even less easy to speak about his later career of the 1930s and 1940s . It is hard first , because he was subject to monumental political blindness ; second , because the thought of his later period is ...
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... speak of " God " as a construct in a devotional poem by Donne without calling into question the ontology of God . We can speak of death as a con- struct in each single poem of mourning . So the poem places its speaker in relation with ...
... speak of " God " as a construct in a devotional poem by Donne without calling into question the ontology of God . We can speak of death as a con- struct in each single poem of mourning . So the poem places its speaker in relation with ...
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... speak , it recog- nizes its inefficacy . Elegy 19 dramatizes this impotence by its disclo- sure in the closing couplet that the mistress is still " covered , " not yet undressed , that all the preceding strip - tease has been invoked ...
... speak , it recog- nizes its inefficacy . Elegy 19 dramatizes this impotence by its disclo- sure in the closing couplet that the mistress is still " covered , " not yet undressed , that all the preceding strip - tease has been invoked ...
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