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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... turning " or troping our experience as secular beings on a physical plane into ontological significance . The process I will describe is hermeneutic : metaphors intrinsic to this mode of thought provide interpretative models for ...
... turning " or troping our experience as secular beings on a physical plane into ontological significance . The process I will describe is hermeneutic : metaphors intrinsic to this mode of thought provide interpretative models for ...
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... turn to a fun- damental glory of their own and from that create a style of bear- ing themselves in reality " ( 209 ) . Such a style , I will argue , issues from the poetics of meditation ; such a reality inheres within per- formative ...
... turn to a fun- damental glory of their own and from that create a style of bear- ing themselves in reality " ( 209 ) . Such a style , I will argue , issues from the poetics of meditation ; such a reality inheres within per- formative ...
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... turn is a view of retrenchment of possibility . The whole movement in Em- erson , as Burke tells us , was " the building of a terministic bridge " between " disparate realms " —all language as a spiri- tual figuration in which the ...
... turn is a view of retrenchment of possibility . The whole movement in Em- erson , as Burke tells us , was " the building of a terministic bridge " between " disparate realms " —all language as a spiri- tual figuration in which the ...
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... turn in theology devolves into an " a / theology , " as posed by Mark C. Taylor , where religious faith " represents an inverted awareness , " and where , " since the con- sciousness of God is really human self - consciousness , all ...
... turn in theology devolves into an " a / theology , " as posed by Mark C. Taylor , where religious faith " represents an inverted awareness , " and where , " since the con- sciousness of God is really human self - consciousness , all ...
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... turns us , in this vision , into a nation of " bricoleurs " who find nevertheless a " revitaliz- ing " ( 137 ) creativity in our cobbled - together spiritual " disci- plines " where " faith and quest often turn out to mirror one another ...
... turns us , in this vision , into a nation of " bricoleurs " who find nevertheless a " revitaliz- ing " ( 137 ) creativity in our cobbled - together spiritual " disci- plines " where " faith and quest often turn out to mirror one another ...
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