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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... spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds , or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a ...
... spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds , or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a ...
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... Spirit's song to Sabrina ( “ Sabrina fair . . . ” ) through his concluding epilogue , is almost entirely given over to song.12 Song , with its Orphic or sirenic character , is appropriate be- cause the invocation of Sabrina definitively ...
... Spirit's song to Sabrina ( “ Sabrina fair . . . ” ) through his concluding epilogue , is almost entirely given over to song.12 Song , with its Orphic or sirenic character , is appropriate be- cause the invocation of Sabrina definitively ...
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... Spirit By its own moods interprets , every where Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . ( 13-23 ) The flimsy film on the grate is a limiting case - the least human ob- ject to which the fancy might stoop , the ...
... Spirit By its own moods interprets , every where Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . ( 13-23 ) The flimsy film on the grate is a limiting case - the least human ob- ject to which the fancy might stoop , the ...
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