The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English PoetryThis 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. |
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Page 124
... final tome containing all conceivable permutations of the alphabet " ( Eco 1994 , 28 ; Steiner cited in Firmage 2000 , 51-52 ) . If the cosmos itself , unified and therefore monotheistic , is indeed nothing but trillions of atoms ...
... final tome containing all conceivable permutations of the alphabet " ( Eco 1994 , 28 ; Steiner cited in Firmage 2000 , 51-52 ) . If the cosmos itself , unified and therefore monotheistic , is indeed nothing but trillions of atoms ...
Page 242
... final line So I did sit and eat , seeming to end Herbert's entire quest , may derive from his early upbringing . It is a modification of cynhanedd sain , one of the standard forms in Welsh regular verse . The form is a + ab + b , with ...
... final line So I did sit and eat , seeming to end Herbert's entire quest , may derive from his early upbringing . It is a modification of cynhanedd sain , one of the standard forms in Welsh regular verse . The form is a + ab + b , with ...
Page 277
... final state would be as writing . And so a near anguish over these comparable states of language as sound and language as markings ends up running through the autobiographical Prelude like the underground river with which the poet ...
... final state would be as writing . And so a near anguish over these comparable states of language as sound and language as markings ends up running through the autobiographical Prelude like the underground river with which the poet ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Abecedary Some Historical | 39 |
Beginnings | 46 |
Copyright | |
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The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry John Powell Ward No preview available - 2004 |
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