Poetry, Signs, and MagicUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 327 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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... become a cliché but not for that rea- son irrelevant to our thinking about our modern civic life . What follows is not intended to excuse the cynics who manipulate political impressions . But it may nonetheless be helpful to question ...
... become a cliché but not for that rea- son irrelevant to our thinking about our modern civic life . What follows is not intended to excuse the cynics who manipulate political impressions . But it may nonetheless be helpful to question ...
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... becomes pos- sible and even necessary . The relationship in fact becomes conjunc- tive . Appearance in human beings is seldom purely appearance , and what is called reality is in fact a myth . The times of Abraham Lin- coln's career ...
... becomes pos- sible and even necessary . The relationship in fact becomes conjunc- tive . Appearance in human beings is seldom purely appearance , and what is called reality is in fact a myth . The times of Abraham Lin- coln's career ...
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... against the brightness of the other . Not only for the poet but for the general reader , the phonic becomes semantic . It is true , wrote Mallarmé , that because of a given language's resistances , it will 22 INTRODUCTION.
... against the brightness of the other . Not only for the poet but for the general reader , the phonic becomes semantic . It is true , wrote Mallarmé , that because of a given language's resistances , it will 22 INTRODUCTION.
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... become purely Adamic . " Otherwise words would be , through a unique coin- age , substantial Truth itself . " That perfect Utopian ideal can never be realized . But nonetheless the resistance of the language can be triumphantly ...
... become purely Adamic . " Otherwise words would be , through a unique coin- age , substantial Truth itself . " That perfect Utopian ideal can never be realized . But nonetheless the resistance of the language can be triumphantly ...
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... becomes a theory of signs . Ficino's general conception of words and signs was shared by his fol- lower , Pico della ... become a familiar topic of anthropological literature , discussed by , among others , Robin Horton and S. J. Tambiah ...
... becomes a theory of signs . Ficino's general conception of words and signs was shared by his fol- lower , Pico della ... become a familiar topic of anthropological literature , discussed by , among others , Robin Horton and S. J. Tambiah ...
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Rabelais and the Language of Malediction | 62 |
Labyrinth Dances in the French and English Renaissance | 76 |
The Poetics of Discovery A Reading of Donnes Elegy 19 | 132 |
Shakespeares Richard II The Name in Bolingbrokes Window | 147 |
Pressures of Context in Antony and Cleopatra | 158 |
Ceremonial Closure in Shakespeares Plays | 177 |
The Balance of Power in Marvells Horatian Ode | 206 |
Coleridge and the Energy of Asking | 222 |
Poetry and the Scattered World | 245 |
Poetry and Permeability | 260 |
Notes | 277 |
Bibliography | 308 |
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Magic and CounterMagic in Comus | 189 |
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