The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign /
Recognizing the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos, this volume addresses the question of how grammar and culturally encoded sounds and signs provide cognitive maps of reality in a variety of great civilizations.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Colección: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ;
v. 6. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction (S. La Porta and D. Shulman); PART ONE CREATION; 1. Creation through Hieroglyphs: The Cosmic Grammatology of Ancient Egypt (Jan Assmann); 2. KUN
- the Existence-Bestowing Word in Islamic Mysticism: A Survey of Texts on the Creative Power of Language (Sara Sviri); 3. Adam's Naming of the Animals: Naming or Creation? (Michael E. Stone); 4. Greek Distrust of Language (Margalit Finkelberg); PART TWO CULTURAL ENCODING; 5. This is no Lotus, it is a Face: Poetics as Grammar in Dandin's Investigation of the Simile (Yigal Bronner).