The Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of MeditationSusquehanna University Press, 2004 - Всего страниц: 391 This book describes the signature styles of meditation in three American poets, and shows how each generated language out of spiritual yearning. Beginning with a survey of twentieth-century thinking on metaphor, the study concentrates on hermeneutical theories of figurative language as forged by continental philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and Gaston Bachelard. It arrives at a view of metaphor as an analogue of faith, and traces the development of metaphorical practice in the later, meditative sequences of Eliot, Stevens, and Roethke. The book also explores the ways in which both the lengthening poetic structures and the transcendent desires of each poet determine the kind of metaphor that arises, and also the way in which metaphor itself is able to transport each poet to a hitherto unreachable expression of faith, whether in an identifiable deity, as was Eliot's case, or in a more maverick apprehension of the transcendent, as in Stevens and Roethke. Metaphor comes to embody the qualities of possibility, confidence, and expectation usually manifested in orthodox expressions of religious faith. Peter Sharpe is Professor of English at Wagner College. |
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... consciousness , " said the ever- Stevensian Emerson in his essay , " Circles . " " Our moods do not believe in each other . " 12 Thus , Stevens would always allow his playfulness to disrupt any comfortable positions into which he might ...
... consciousness , " said the ever- Stevensian Emerson in his essay , " Circles . " " Our moods do not believe in each other . " 12 Thus , Stevens would always allow his playfulness to disrupt any comfortable positions into which he might ...
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... consciousness of our age . " Under such conditions of cultural entropy , the com- munity provides the artist with no " coordinating analogies and key metaphors , " 18 the very point of Eliot's review of Ulysses , and the artistic ...
... consciousness of our age . " Under such conditions of cultural entropy , the com- munity provides the artist with no " coordinating analogies and key metaphors , " 18 the very point of Eliot's review of Ulysses , and the artistic ...
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... consciousness to the exclusion of any power of contemplation " ( NA , 20 ) with an equivalent " violence from within that protects us from the violence without . " This force , every- where in Stevens , is the force of imagination , of ...
... consciousness to the exclusion of any power of contemplation " ( NA , 20 ) with an equivalent " violence from within that protects us from the violence without . " This force , every- where in Stevens , is the force of imagination , of ...
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... consciousness originating in the subliminal parts of the mind , " what James calls the " ultra - marginal life . " 33 Such incur- sions , far from cutting us off from the intentional , social , or moral purpose of literature , have the ...
... consciousness originating in the subliminal parts of the mind , " what James calls the " ultra - marginal life . " 33 Such incur- sions , far from cutting us off from the intentional , social , or moral purpose of literature , have the ...
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... consciousness , all theol- ogy is acutally anthropology . " This , taken to its logical extreme , issues in the " birth of the sovereign self . " 48 The " humanistic atheist , " in this scenario , transfers attributes of the divine to ...
... consciousness , all theol- ogy is acutally anthropology . " This , taken to its logical extreme , issues in the " birth of the sovereign self . " 48 The " humanistic atheist , " in this scenario , transfers attributes of the divine to ...
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