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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... courses with me noted how those classes evoked an intense feeling of mourning for how much we had lost of the cultural traditions and mental worlds of the past . We were ourselves being put in the same position as the great Renaissance ...
... courses with me noted how those classes evoked an intense feeling of mourning for how much we had lost of the cultural traditions and mental worlds of the past . We were ourselves being put in the same position as the great Renaissance ...
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... course itself an illusion . We have only to think about ourselves in our own volatility to realize that . Any person's self - presentation in any given social context will be influenced by social context as well as by the unsteady ...
... course itself an illusion . We have only to think about ourselves in our own volatility to realize that . Any person's self - presentation in any given social context will be influenced by social context as well as by the unsteady ...
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... course would require a book in itself . What is at issue is essentially the real presence of the representation in the represented , an issue that , as early modern thinkers clearly understood , affected not only the Eucharist but the ...
... course would require a book in itself . What is at issue is essentially the real presence of the representation in the represented , an issue that , as early modern thinkers clearly understood , affected not only the Eucharist but the ...
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... course live without them ; we can only try to improve them . ) If a group's control over its surroundings is minimal , then it tries to acquire some purchase upon things by utilizing the bare bones of human civilization , reified signs ...
... course live without them ; we can only try to improve them . ) If a group's control over its surroundings is minimal , then it tries to acquire some purchase upon things by utilizing the bare bones of human civilization , reified signs ...
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... course subject to pathologies . But this book is basically in- tended to evoke what is hopeful and positive in our condition as human beings , while owning up to its privations . One last consideration : although this introduction has ...
... course subject to pathologies . But this book is basically in- tended to evoke what is hopeful and positive in our condition as human beings , while owning up to its privations . One last consideration : although this introduction has ...
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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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