Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 435 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 435 g
Reihe: Studies in Spirituality Supple
ISBN: 978-90-429-1809-2
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
In «Mystical Discourse» D.J. Moores builds on the work of current transatlantic scholarship in a lucid analysis of the connections between William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. As he demonstrates, the "transatlantic bridge" between both poets lies in their privileging of a type of mystical language he calls "cosmic" rhetoric, which served the function of ideological resistance, as it enabled them to rebel against Enlightenment modes of thinking and being. In a thorough engagement with the work of Wordsworth and Whitman, Moores shows that the cosmic rhetoric of both writers involves a subversive reorientation towards self and society, nature and God, and knowledge and religion, as well as a radical revisioning of language and poetics.
