The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English PoetryFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2004 - 495 páginas This book investigates the nature of the alphabet as a medium of communication. The general thesis is that writing is not a merely transparent or empty item like air or glass; rather, the alphabet is both modifier and enabler of meaning itself: The book investigates the general implications of this thesis. |
Contenido
| 9 | |
The Abecedary Some Historical | 39 |
Beginnings | 46 |
Ancient Greece | 73 |
Augustine Aquinas and Others | 96 |
The Reformation and Humanism | 128 |
Six Characteristics of the Abecedary | 149 |
Letters Are Stable | 167 |
John Milton Paradise Lost | 256 |
William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey | 275 |
Emily Dickinson | 302 |
T S Eliot The Waste Land and Four Quartets | 324 |
The Abecedary the Mind | 353 |
Unconsciousness and Consciousness | 369 |
The Aesthetic | 388 |
The Postmodern | 400 |
Letters Are Equable | 178 |
Letters Are Physical | 191 |
Letters Are Virtual | 201 |
Letters Are Distributive | 214 |
The Abecedary in the Poets | 231 |
Poetry | 415 |
Notes | 444 |
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The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry John Powell Ward Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
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