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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... Plays 177 9. Magic and Counter - Magic in Comus 189 10. The Balance of Power in Marvell's " Horatian Ode " 206 11. Coleridge and the Energy of Asking 222 12. Poetry and the Scattered World 245 13. Poetry and Permeability Notes ...
... Plays 177 9. Magic and Counter - Magic in Comus 189 10. The Balance of Power in Marvell's " Horatian Ode " 206 11. Coleridge and the Energy of Asking 222 12. Poetry and the Scattered World 245 13. Poetry and Permeability Notes ...
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... play in helping us grasp our experience of the world , and it taught other human discourses to keep refining and adjusting their language to the ob- jects they described , to let the objects themselves talk . Tom also looked for the ...
... play in helping us grasp our experience of the world , and it taught other human discourses to keep refining and adjusting their language to the ob- jects they described , to let the objects themselves talk . Tom also looked for the ...
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... Plays " is reprinted from Per- spectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History : Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever , edited by Joseph Marino and Melinda W. Schlitt , by permission of University of Rochester Press ...
... Plays " is reprinted from Per- spectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History : Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever , edited by Joseph Marino and Melinda W. Schlitt , by permission of University of Rochester Press ...
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... play in our daily lives . Or rather we are in the process of determining ourselves through the roles we adopt , since our personality is always an incomplete patchwork . The idea of a disjunctive static facade covering a static reality ...
... play in our daily lives . Or rather we are in the process of determining ourselves through the roles we adopt , since our personality is always an incomplete patchwork . The idea of a disjunctive static facade covering a static reality ...
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... playing produces ? In actu- ality there seems to be a neutral area between " appearance " and " reality , " an area where movement in both directions becomes pos- sible and even necessary . The relationship in fact becomes conjunc- tive ...
... playing produces ? In actu- ality there seems to be a neutral area between " appearance " and " reality , " an area where movement in both directions becomes pos- sible and even necessary . The relationship in fact becomes conjunc- tive ...
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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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