This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. An introductory discu...

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Main Author:	Grzegorzewska, Małgorzata 1964- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bern Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2015
Edition:	0
Series:	Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture v.10
Subjects:	Philosophie Incarnation > Philosophy Incarnation in literature Silence in literature Religion Lyrik Kenosis Englisch Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. An introductory discussion of language and prayer is followed by reflections linking poetry with religious experience and theology, especially apophatic, and questioning the ability of language to reach out beyond itself. The central section foregrounds the motif of the suffering flesh, while the final section, including essays on seventeenth-century English metaphysical poetry and several of the great poets of the twentieth century, is devoted to the sounds and rhythms which give a poem its own kind of «body».
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Physical Description:	1 online resource (269 pages)
ISBN:	9783653049053 9783631655146