Painting and Poetry: Form, Metaphor, and the Language of LiteratureBucknell University Press, 1985 - 248 էջ This study addresses itself to the formal (in the topological sense) aspect of literature and literary words, and concludes that if logos (discursive langauge) and mythos (literary language) are indeed contiguous complementary forms, they are then essentially no different from those forms with which the painter or sculptor deals in the formation of his art object. |
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Archetrope and Transformation | 62 |
The Literary Art Object A Topological View | 81 |
Literary Form The Topology of Metaphor | 105 |
The Perception of Poetic Form | 125 |
Logos and Mythos | 148 |
Words and Signs | 172 |
The Pleasure of Ulteriority | 197 |
Notes | 217 |
Works Cited | 231 |
Index | 243 |
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Allan Paivio Altamira André Leroi-Gourhan artistic vision axis Bachelard becomes bimodalism bison Braque Brassaï calligraphy cave Chinese cognitive color composition concept consequence cubist cutouts discontinuity drawing Edited elements essential example experience eyes fact figure Françoise Gilot fusion garden Gaston Bachelard Gertrude Stein Gogh Henri Matisse illustrate imagery imagination interplay isomorphism Jean Vertut Lascaux left hemisphere linear linguistic literary art object literary language literature logos manifest Matisse's means memory image metaphor Morphogenesis movement mythos nature Necessary Angel novel painter Paris perceived phenomenon phrase Picasso poem poet poet's poetic polysemy precisely prehistoric present reader reading reality René Thom right hemisphere Robert Frost rock protuberance schèmes sense shape significance signification space Spender structure suggested surface surreal synchronous Tabac Royal thing Thom tion topological model trans transformational perception Translated truth University Press vase verbal event virtual lines visual Wallace Stevens woman Woolf word writing wrote York
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Էջ 28 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air.
Էջ 52 - And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? My genial spirits fail; It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west; I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Էջ 186 - How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust is all remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. A
Էջ 186 - Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honour might uphold Against the stormy gusts of winter's day And barren rage of death's eternal cold? O none but unthrifts, dear my love you know, You had a father, let your son say so. Here
Էջ 52 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west; I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. The
Էջ 208 - Peter Quince at the Clavier": Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.
Էջ 64 - If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know THAT is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know THAT is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way.
Էջ 64 - can warm me I know THAT is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know THAT is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way.
Էջ 107 - it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life—not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Էջ 51 - Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.