A01=Kristine S. Santilli
Author_Kristine S. Santilli
Body's Composition
Body’s Composition
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Circuitous
Cruel Turn
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Gadamer's Words
Gestural Presence
Gestural Space
Golden Apple
Golden Touch
Homeric Gods
Immortal Shield
Latent Double
linguistic embodiment
Linguistic Gestures
literary theory
Medusa's Sisters
Mozart's Piano Sonata
myth interpretation
phenomenological analysis of poetic meaning
phenomenology of poetry
poetic knowledge
River Styx
Roberto Calasso
Sea Water
Secret Signs
Silent Narrative
Strong Arms
True Mourning
unreadable gestures
White Space
Widest Orbit
Wild Olive
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415938686
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.
