Author: Rowland JONES (Philologist.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Vincent Arthur De Luca
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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William Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permeates his writings, serving him as a personal poetics, a framework in which the difficulties and unusual strategies of the works find their rationale. Vincent De Luca combines historically grounded source study with insights from modern critical theories of textuality to identify Blake's two opposing conceptions of sublimity--a sublime of obscurity, terror, and material power and one of determinate, concentrated intellectual design. De Luca examines the interplay between these two modes from differing perspectives--theoretical, stylistic, and thematic. As the perspectives widen, they embrace many of the speculative systems of Blake's time and reveal these systems as various displaced modalities of an underlying sublime discourse. "Words of Eternity is one of the dozen or so most important books ever written about Blake's poetry. De Luca provides a wealth of new insights on every page."--Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside "With the context that this book supplies, we take a quantum leap in the sense we can make of Blake's project. De Luca opens our eyes to a Blake, and a sublime, that will never again be the same for us."--Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Earl R. Anderson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637647
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Literary criticism often includes ad hoc comments about onomatopoeia, synaesthesia, or other forms of iconism. In A Grammar of Iconism, Earl Anderson discusses these phenomena systematically. According to Anderson, modern post-Saussurian linguistics has as its central tenet the arbitrariness of linguistic signs. Thus, linguistic elements that bear some relationship to their referent have been seen as marginal to the system of language, or at best similar in their arbitrariness to other linguistic signs. As an example of the latter, while most languages have an onomatopoeic element, different languages imitate sounds differently. Anderson argues against the standard view, provides a detailed critique of the negative arguments against iconism, and offers a positive typology that demonstrates the extensiveness and complexity of iconism in language.

Author: Mercantile Library Company (PHILADELPHIA)
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Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1372

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Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1912

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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1066

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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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