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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... verbal subtlety , and figural poignancy , commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures . For Greene , " the act of interpretation lies close to the core of our humanity " and poetic or literary interpretation , in particular ...
... verbal subtlety , and figural poignancy , commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures . For Greene , " the act of interpretation lies close to the core of our humanity " and poetic or literary interpretation , in particular ...
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... verbal and especially poetic . But perhaps this po- litical beginning will help to illustrate and extend some of the ideas in the chapters that follow . The remarks above on image and au- thenticity in public life provide a kind of ...
... verbal and especially poetic . But perhaps this po- litical beginning will help to illustrate and extend some of the ideas in the chapters that follow . The remarks above on image and au- thenticity in public life provide a kind of ...
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... verbal sound , he be- longs here as much as the poets . The analysis of Comus in chapter 9 follows both the struggle of disjunctive categories with conjunctive in that work , as well as a struggle between one conjunctive magic with ...
... verbal sound , he be- longs here as much as the poets . The analysis of Comus in chapter 9 follows both the struggle of disjunctive categories with conjunctive in that work , as well as a struggle between one conjunctive magic with ...
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... verbal charms of the magician are nothing other than , in his phrase , " the devil's sacraments and watchwords . " Thus the attack on witchcraft , whether from Scot's enlightened view or Perkins's orthodox view , involves a linguistic ...
... verbal charms of the magician are nothing other than , in his phrase , " the devil's sacraments and watchwords . " Thus the attack on witchcraft , whether from Scot's enlightened view or Perkins's orthodox view , involves a linguistic ...
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... verbal designation amounts to much more than a simple act of conventional reference . " What is this naming ? Does it merely drape representable , known objects and events . with the words of a language ? No. Naming does not hand out ...
... verbal designation amounts to much more than a simple act of conventional reference . " What is this naming ? Does it merely drape representable , known objects and events . with the words of a language ? No. Naming does not hand out ...
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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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