
The Poetics of Transcendence
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 5. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-90-420-3928-5 (ISBN)
Description
The present "turn to religion" has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular perspective: that of language and literature seen as a matrix of expression of transcendence and its interplay of immanence. The essays in this volume probe the poetic and literary devices through which transcendence has been solicited, evoked, and generated. This has also meant revisiting the long Christian tradition, not simply to rehabilitate it but as an indispensable source for present writing and thinking.
"Thus, ultimately, the present anthology offers no apology for traditional views of transcendence and religious experience but presents original contributions to the poetics of transcendence that are sensitive to religious as well as a-religious languages in literature. It is argued that, in order to rethink meanings and the value of transcendence, rigorous ontological philosophy must once again face up to the imaginative potential of poetics." (From the Introduction)
"Thus, ultimately, the present anthology offers no apology for traditional views of transcendence and religious experience but presents original contributions to the poetics of transcendence that are sensitive to religious as well as a-religious languages in literature. It is argued that, in order to rethink meanings and the value of transcendence, rigorous ontological philosophy must once again face up to the imaginative potential of poetics." (From the Introduction)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-3928-5 (9789042039285)
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Persons
Elisa Heinaemaeki is a postdoctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
P.M. Mehtonen is an independent researcher and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Antti Salminen is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, Finland, specializing in the philosophy of literature and avant-garde poetics.
P.M. Mehtonen is an independent researcher and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Antti Salminen is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, Finland, specializing in the philosophy of literature and avant-garde poetics.
Content
Acknowledgements
Elisa Heinaemaeki, P.M. Mehtonen, and Antti Salminen: Literary Beyonds: An Introduction
Part I: Poetics of Mysticism
Daniel Acke: Non-Religious Mysticism: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Antti Salminen: Writing Through the Transcendence: On Paul Celan's Mysticism
Kent L. Brintnall: Transcribing Desire: Mystical Theology in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts
Part II: Transcendence and Language
Shira Wolosky: Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas, Ricoeur, Frost
William Franke: Language and Transcendence in Dante's Paradiso
Part III: Tropes of Transcendences
Elisa Heinaemaeki: The Original Analogy: Mediating Transcendence in The Man Without Qualities
Jarkko Toikkanen: Transcendental Puppets: Kant and Kleist
Hanna Maekelae: Horizontal Rivalry, Vertical Transcendence: Identity and Idolatry in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Donna Tartt's The Secret History
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Contributors
Elisa Heinaemaeki, P.M. Mehtonen, and Antti Salminen: Literary Beyonds: An Introduction
Part I: Poetics of Mysticism
Daniel Acke: Non-Religious Mysticism: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Antti Salminen: Writing Through the Transcendence: On Paul Celan's Mysticism
Kent L. Brintnall: Transcribing Desire: Mystical Theology in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts
Part II: Transcendence and Language
Shira Wolosky: Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas, Ricoeur, Frost
William Franke: Language and Transcendence in Dante's Paradiso
Part III: Tropes of Transcendences
Elisa Heinaemaeki: The Original Analogy: Mediating Transcendence in The Man Without Qualities
Jarkko Toikkanen: Transcendental Puppets: Kant and Kleist
Hanna Maekelae: Horizontal Rivalry, Vertical Transcendence: Identity and Idolatry in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Donna Tartt's The Secret History
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Contributors