Description |
xii, 300 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Introduction Toward a dialectic of hermetic and orphic poetries -- pt. 1. The idea of language from a literary point of view Rhetoric, grammar, and the conception of language as a substantial medium -- Energeia: the development of the romantic idea of language -- pt. 2. Literature as a problematics of language From intransitive speech to the universe of discourse: the formalist theory of literary language -- Mallarmé: the transcendence of language and the aesthetics of the book -- Flaubert, Joyce, and the displacement of fiction -- The storyteller and the problem of language in Samuel Beckett's fiction -- pt. 3. The language of poetry and the being of the world Negative discourse and the moment before speech: a metaphysics of literary language -- Poetry as reality: the Orpheus myth and its modern counterparts -- Conclusion The orphic and hermetic dimensions of meaning |
Analysis |
Literature Style Linguistic aspects |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Language and languages -- Style.
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Poetics.
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LC no. |
73086886 |
ISBN |
0300016131 |
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