Overview

This book does not study religious ideas for their own sake, but how religious ideas are turned into verbal imitations of religious experience by poetic structure. Even such words as 'ecstasy' or 'mysticism' denote clear-cut concepts. The book investigates how such a conceptual language can convey such non-conceptual experiences as meditation, ecstasy or mystic insights. Briefly, it explores how the poet, by using words, can express the 'ineffable'. It submits to close reading English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Armenian and Hebrew texts, from the Bible, through medieval, renaissance, metaphysical, and baroque poetry, to (secular) romantic and symbolistic poetry.

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Author:   Reuven Tsur
Publisher:   Imprint Academic
Imprint:   Imprint Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9780907845447

ISBN 10:   0907845444
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   30 April 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Synopsis 1. Introduction: Means, Effects, and Assumptions 2. Poem, Prayer and Meditation 3. The Ultimate Limit--Appresentation and Transcendence 4. ""Composition of Place"", Experiential Set, and the Meditative Poem 5. Mystic Poetry--Metaphysical, Baroque and Romantic 6. The Sublime and the Absolute Limit 7. Rhythmic Structure and Religious Poetry--The Numinous, the Infernal, and Agnus Dei 8. Visual and Auditory Ingenuities in Mystic Poetry 9. Oceanic Dedifferentiation, ""Thing Destruction"" and Mystic Poetry 10. The Infernal and the Hybrid--Bosch and Dante 11. Let There be Light and the Emanation of Light--The Act of Creation in Ibn Gabirol and Milton 12. Light, Fire, Prison: A Cognitive Analysis of Religious Imagery in Poetry 13. The Asymmetry of Sacred, Sexual, and Filial Love in Figurative Language References Index"

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'For anyone interested in cognitive psychology and/or poetics, a new book by Reuven Tsur is an event.' Norman Holland, Psyart

For anyone interested in cognitive psychology and/or poetics, a new book by Reuven Tsur is an event. -- Norman Holland Psyart A valuable contribution to a clearer and more formal understanding of the nature of poetic texts. -- Margaret H. Freeman Poetics Today

Author Information

REUVEN TSUR is professor emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University, and Middle East vice president of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. He has developed a theory of cognitive poetics, and applied it to rhyme, sound symbolism, poetic rhythm, metaphor, poetry and altered states of consciousness, period style, genre, archetypal patterns, translation theory, and critical activities.

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