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Poetry, Signs, and Magic
Thomas M. Greene
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Description for Poetry, Signs, and Magic
Hardback. Num Pages: 327 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic, Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts-magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in ... Read more
Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic, Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts-magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611492606
SKU
V9781611492606
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About Thomas M. Greene
Thomas M. Greene was professor of English and comparative literature at Yale University.
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