Painting and Poetry: Form, Metaphor, and the Language of Literature

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Bucknell University Press, 1985 - 248
This study addresses itself to the formal (in the topological sense) aspect of literature and literary words, and concludes that if logos (discursive langauge) and mythos (literary language) are indeed contiguous complementary forms, they are then essentially no different from those forms with which the painter or sculptor deals in the formation of his art object.
 

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The Painter Vision and Transformational Perception
23
The Poet Vision and Transformational Perception
41
Archetrope and Transformation
62
The Literary Art Object A Topological View
81
Literary Form The Topology of Metaphor
105
The Perception of Poetic Form
125
Logos and Mythos
148
Words and Signs
172
The Pleasure of Ulteriority
197
Notes
217
Works Cited
231
Index
243
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Strona 28 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air.

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