On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and its Mystic-Secular Counterpart, A Study in Cognitive Poetics

Tsur, Reuven/ Benari, Motti (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1845401360 / ISBN 13: 9781845401368

Published by Imprint Academic, 2008

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380 pages. 9.20x6.30x1.20 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and its Mystic-Secular Counterpart, A Study in Cognitive Poetics
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845401360
• ISBN 13: 9781845401368
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.61 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book studies how poetic structure transforms verbal imitations of religious experience into 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 romantic and symbolistic poetry."

About the Author

Reuven Tsur is professor emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University.