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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... close to the core of our humanity " and poetic or literary interpretation , in particular , offers an experience akin to the complexity of a lived event . He probes to the heart of a text , unraveling its meaning and divining its ...
... close to the core of our humanity " and poetic or literary interpretation , in particular , offers an experience akin to the complexity of a lived event . He probes to the heart of a text , unraveling its meaning and divining its ...
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... always able to bring discussion to what seemed a natural close with exactly fifteen minutes to go , at which point he would sum up what we had said — and what we should have said . Something magical had occurred . His customary FOREWORD 11.
... always able to bring discussion to what seemed a natural close with exactly fifteen minutes to go , at which point he would sum up what we had said — and what we should have said . Something magical had occurred . His customary FOREWORD 11.
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... close , he quotes a passage from Wordsworth's prose on the potentially de- structive powers of language , a passage taken from the poet's Essays upon Epitaphs . De Man has discussed this work sympathetically throughout his own essay ...
... close , he quotes a passage from Wordsworth's prose on the potentially de- structive powers of language , a passage taken from the poet's Essays upon Epitaphs . De Man has discussed this work sympathetically throughout his own essay ...
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... close the gap between sign and referent . This turn in Luther's thought may possibly reflect a kind of nostalgia for the efficacious sign that the earlier passages had repressed . Luther's mind seems to waver between a disjunctive view ...
... close the gap between sign and referent . This turn in Luther's thought may possibly reflect a kind of nostalgia for the efficacious sign that the earlier passages had repressed . Luther's mind seems to waver between a disjunctive view ...
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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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