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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... perceived as introducing a manipulative theatricality into the demo- cratic system , a staginess threatening to undermine that validity most of us want the system to retain . The image is perceived as screening off the actual human ...
... perceived as introducing a manipulative theatricality into the demo- cratic system , a staginess threatening to undermine that validity most of us want the system to retain . The image is perceived as screening off the actual human ...
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... perceived conjunctively as incorporating meaning . This conjunc- tive appeal is then oddly transferred in turn to the descriptive texts , texts that try visibly to be allegories of the choreography they evoke . The larger issue in this ...
... perceived conjunctively as incorporating meaning . This conjunc- tive appeal is then oddly transferred in turn to the descriptive texts , texts that try visibly to be allegories of the choreography they evoke . The larger issue in this ...
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... perceived to produce , not " an illusory identification " of self and nonself , but rather a subtler and more enriching passage between them . The value of the symbol lies precisely in its capacity to render the self more permeable . De ...
... perceived to produce , not " an illusory identification " of self and nonself , but rather a subtler and more enriching passage between them . The value of the symbol lies precisely in its capacity to render the self more permeable . De ...
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... perceived to be held by cabalists and papists as well as enchanters . This conjunctive view had by no means died out in early modern Europe , as the attacks upon it implicitly demonstrate . Even if for Scot and Perkins it was diabolical ...
... perceived to be held by cabalists and papists as well as enchanters . This conjunctive view had by no means died out in early modern Europe , as the attacks upon it implicitly demonstrate . Even if for Scot and Perkins it was diabolical ...
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... perceived the fundamental importance of the issue . It is worth noting at this point that the conjunctive conception of language has become a familiar topic of anthropological literature , discussed by , among others , Robin Horton and ...
... perceived the fundamental importance of the issue . It is worth noting at this point that the conjunctive conception of language has become a familiar topic of anthropological literature , discussed by , among others , Robin Horton and ...
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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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