Figuring Poesis: A Mythical Geometry of PostmodernismFiguring Poesis focuses on the interrelations between myth and geometrical symbolism in literature since the end of the Second World War. Detailed readings of a wide range of works contextualize allusions to the myths of the apocalypse, the great goddess, alchemy, the labyrinth, and the descent to the underworld. The geometrical symbols that occur in conjunction with these myths serve as images of poesis and hermeneusis. The conclusion brings postmodernist paintings and architecture into the discussion, and develops an iconography of form. |
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... mirror which reflects the archetypal forms by which the Self projects itself into the seven worlds of the mundus archetypus . The center of the octagonal chamber of mirrors is " the place of self contempla- tion " ( 101 ; my trans ...
... mirror which reflects the archetypal forms by which the Self projects itself into the seven worlds of the mundus archetypus . The center of the octagonal chamber of mirrors is " the place of self contempla- tion " ( 101 ; my trans ...
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... mirror reflects our own image , distorted , " William exclaims , and then concludes that " this mirror is a door " that leads into the inaccessible heptagonal chamber of the south tower ( 319 ) . The room is called the " finis Africae ...
... mirror reflects our own image , distorted , " William exclaims , and then concludes that " this mirror is a door " that leads into the inaccessible heptagonal chamber of the south tower ( 319 ) . The room is called the " finis Africae ...
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... mirror in the facing chair , " and then the large Victorian mirror DJ brings home , that inaugurate the seances in " Ephraim " ( 6 ) . In " Mirabell , " the mirror enables the poets to " Look beyond " ( 249 ) themselves into the world ...
... mirror in the facing chair , " and then the large Victorian mirror DJ brings home , that inaugurate the seances in " Ephraim " ( 6 ) . In " Mirabell , " the mirror enables the poets to " Look beyond " ( 249 ) themselves into the world ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Forthrights and Meanders | 9 |
Our Lady of the Honeycomb | 39 |
Copyright | |
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