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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... theories of con- ventional language as opposed to theories of natural language . This distinction really lies at the heart of the book , in such a way that most of the textual analyses can be read as localizing 18 INTRODUCTION.
... theories of con- ventional language as opposed to theories of natural language . This distinction really lies at the heart of the book , in such a way that most of the textual analyses can be read as localizing 18 INTRODUCTION.
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... theory would be dual- istic , would posit the manipulated image as distinct from the person . A conjunctive theory would posit the image as necessarily entangled or conjoined with the person , if indeed the dualism wouldn't have to be ...
... theory would be dual- istic , would posit the manipulated image as distinct from the person . A conjunctive theory would posit the image as necessarily entangled or conjoined with the person , if indeed the dualism wouldn't have to be ...
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... theories of narrative , of ritual , and of theatrical history within its small compass . ) Chapter 2 , " Poetry as Invocation , " follows the invocational trope from its usages in spells through ancient poetry to the Romantics , arguing ...
... theories of narrative , of ritual , and of theatrical history within its small compass . ) Chapter 2 , " Poetry as Invocation , " follows the invocational trope from its usages in spells through ancient poetry to the Romantics , arguing ...
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... Theories of natural language offended the intelligence of a late col- league and friend , Paul de Man . His was an ... theory of symbolism that leaves no room for disjunction : " In the world of the symbol it would be possi- ble for ...
... Theories of natural language offended the intelligence of a late col- league and friend , Paul de Man . His was an ... theory of symbolism that leaves no room for disjunction : " In the world of the symbol it would be possi- ble for ...
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... theories of language in Locke , Condillac , and Kant , de Man's sympathy for Locke seems based in part on that philosopher's freedom from the Cratylan " de- lusions , " which are said to have infected some of his successors.8 The same ...
... theories of language in Locke , Condillac , and Kant , de Man's sympathy for Locke seems based in part on that philosopher's freedom from the Cratylan " de- lusions , " which are said to have infected some of his successors.8 The same ...
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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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