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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... never allowed to overwhelm the pages of Tom's criticism was an unforgettable feature of his teach- ing . A friend who shared his courses with me noted how those classes evoked an intense feeling of mourning for how much we had lost of ...
... never allowed to overwhelm the pages of Tom's criticism was an unforgettable feature of his teach- ing . A friend who shared his courses with me noted how those classes evoked an intense feeling of mourning for how much we had lost of ...
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... never be abolished by a roll of dice . Few readers have failed to grasp the crux of his complaint . " Jour , " a syllable heard as dark , would better represent night than the syllable " nuit , " heard as bright . Mallarme's poems are ...
... never be abolished by a roll of dice . Few readers have failed to grasp the crux of his complaint . " Jour , " a syllable heard as dark , would better represent night than the syllable " nuit , " heard as bright . Mallarme's poems are ...
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Thomas M. Greene. that because of a given language's resistances , it will never become purely Adamic . " Otherwise words would be , through a unique coin- age , substantial Truth itself . " That perfect Utopian ideal can never be ...
Thomas M. Greene. that because of a given language's resistances , it will never become purely Adamic . " Otherwise words would be , through a unique coin- age , substantial Truth itself . " That perfect Utopian ideal can never be ...
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... never be exorcized . The extreme disjunctive position summed up in Derrida's term differance helps to illuminate the harmony of thought prevailing between these two friends , al- though de Man lacked the countervailing concept of the ...
... never be exorcized . The extreme disjunctive position summed up in Derrida's term differance helps to illuminate the harmony of thought prevailing between these two friends , al- though de Man lacked the countervailing concept of the ...
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... never does lose its efficacy — not so long as you refuse to despair of reach- ing salvation . It is true that you may wander awhile from the sign , but that does not make the sign impotent .... We never lose the sign of baptism nor its ...
... never does lose its efficacy — not so long as you refuse to despair of reach- ing salvation . It is true that you may wander awhile from the sign , but that does not make the sign impotent .... We never lose the sign of baptism nor its ...
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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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