Author: Thomas M. Greene
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts - magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in this diminishment there occurs a verbal subtlety, and figural poignancy, commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures. Greene employs his well-known skills as a close reader to texts by a range of writers including a variety of contemporary theorists. in diverse contexts the distinction between disjunctive and conjunctive linguistics, dual theories of sound and meaning of crucial importance to Plato and Aristotle, to Catholic and Protestant debates on the sacraments, to the more recent skeptical methodologies of Derrida and de Man. Thomas M. Greene was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
Author: Amy Fleury
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809332256
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Amy Fleury’s bewitching new collection of poems, Sympathetic Magic, unveils the everyday manifestations of sympathy as well as the connections wrought by “sympathetic magic”—that indelible tether that binds people, places, and objects across time and distance. Fleury’s lyrics journey across the landscapes of childhood and old age, body and spirit, past and future, exploring the boundless permutations of sympathy as it appears in the most surprising locations. Connections reveal themselves in the aggressive silence of the small town or the round penmanship of a loved one, and echo throughout the solitude and regeneration of the forest as well as the antiseptic air of the hospital. At the center of these travels lies the narrator, stretching her limbs from the heart of the heartland, her body a compass summoning us from all directions, emphasizing with tender simplicity that “we all live under the self-same moon, no matter the phase.”
Author: Henry Treece
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780060208028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A mysterious man befriends an unwitting visitor in a nighttime wood filled with hidden danger.
Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630832073
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Poems describe the different shoes children wear, including sandals, running shoes, golf shoes, and workboots.
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780525478621
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins takes readers from sunrise to sunset as he presents poems that pay tribute to the sun, moon, and stars.
Author: R. Sutton-Spence
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230513905
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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This new study is a major contribution to sign language study and to literature generally, looking at the complex grammatical, phonological and morphological systems of sign language linguistic structure and their role in sign language poetry and performance. Chapters deal with repetition and rhyme, symmetry and balance, neologisms, ambiguity, themes, metaphor and allusion, poem and performance, and blending English and sign language poetry. Major poetic performances in both BSL and ASL - with emphasis on the work of the deaf poet Dorothy Miles - are analysed using the tools provided in the book.
Author: R. Ray Sette
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546224475
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Incidents in the mind and with intent of the poet, this book is based on past, present, and future reflections of time. Hoping some or all these poems will give solace and thought to those who read them!
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Nigel Pennick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620553163
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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An in-depth study of the sacred meanings behind ancient and enduring symbols • Explains the multiple forms and uses of symbols from ancient times to the present day, reflecting their roots in folk magic and the Western Mystery tradition • Examines more than 40 glyphs, such as the cross, fleur de lis, and pentagram, as well as several families of symbols, such as craftsmen’s marks and runes • Includes more than 300 unique woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and photographs--many never before reproduced From ancient rock and cave art to the contemporary brand logos of politics and business, human beings have always created symbols to denote specific ideas, groups, or important objects as well as to convey deeper information than can be communicated in words. Many glyphs have retained their meanings over millennia whereas some have modern meanings vastly different from the original connotation. In this study of symbols, Nigel Pennick explores glyphs as agents of higher consciousness and ports of access to the collective unconscious, acknowledging the continuity of tradition, both deliberate and not, as well as how interpretations of some symbols, such as the swastika, have changed dramatically. With more than 300 unique woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and photographs--many never before reproduced--Pennick examines ancient and enduring glyphs in detail, such as the circle, cross, eye, pentagram, fleur de lis, tree of life, and horseshoe, as well as several families of symbols, such as craftsmen’s marks, runes, symbolic beasts, human heads and skulls, and the sigils of Mammon. The author explains the multiple forms and uses of each from ancient times to the present day, reflecting their roots in the Western Mystery tradition. He explores the symbols of high magic such as the glyph of John Dee’s monad, those of folk magic such as the traditional cock on the weather vane, and the creation of modern glyphs such as the peace sign and the anarchy symbol. Contrasting the hi-jacked use of power symbols in modern advertising with the vital role of symbols in traditional arts and crafts, Pennick reveals how symbols link the cosmic with the terrestrial and allow us to infuse the mundane with the numinous.
Author: Robin Skelton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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