On the Shore of Nothingness: A Study in Cognitive Poetics

by Reuven Tsur

This book studies how poetic structure transforms verbal imitations of religious experience into concepts. The book investigates how such a conceptual language can convey such non-conceptual experiences as meditation, ecstasy or mystic insights. Briefly, it explores how the poet, by using words, can express the ineffable . It submits to close reading English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Armenian and Hebrew texts, from the Bible, through medieval,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845401360
• ISBN13: 9781845401368
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"