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- catalog abstract ""Language Mysticism explores the place granted to language within metaphysical and theological hierarchies traditional to Western culture. Within these hierarchies, language represents embodiment, division, and historical differentiation; whereas silence points to an eternal unity beyond linguistic form and limitation. But this reflects a deeply embedded ambivalence in the Western tradition toward material and temporal conditions in general." "The author uses the writings of T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Paul Celan to show how far-reaching and immediate this history of ambivalence remains in its influence and consequences. In each of these writers, theological traditions inform and situate linguistic imagery and practices, albeit in quite different ways." "The author argues that the stances toward language of these three writers register values not only fundamental to their work but general to our culture. Language is the sign of body, of history, of difference; and a negative attitude toward language therefore implies a displacement of value away from concrete, historical condition. The approach to language of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan therefore inscribes their struggle to define and locate the values that endow our lives with meaning, and the possibility of translating these values into historical reality."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6576511.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""Language Mysticism explores the place granted to language within metaphysical and theological hierarchies traditional to Western culture. Within these hierarchies, language represents embodiment, division, and historical differentiation; whereas silence points to an eternal unity beyond linguistic form and limitation. But this reflects a deeply embedded ambivalence in the Western tradition toward material and temporal conditions in general." "The author uses the writings of T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Paul Celan to show how far-reaching and immediate this history of ambivalence remains in its influence and consequences. In each of these writers, theological traditions inform and situate linguistic imagery and practices, albeit in quite different ways." "The author argues that the stances toward language of these three writers register values not only fundamental to their work but general to our culture. Language is the sign of body, of history, of difference; and a negative attitude toward language therefore implies a displacement of value away from concrete, historical condition. The approach to language of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan therefore inscribes their struggle to define and locate the values that endow our lives with meaning, and the possibility of translating these values into historical reality."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-311) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: beyond inexpressibility -- Linguistic asceticism in Four quartets -- Samuel Beckett's figural evasions -- The negative way negated: Samuel Beckett, counter-mystic -- Broken Wor(l)ds: aesthetics and history in Paul Celan -- The letters of creation: Paul Celan and the Kabbalah -- Conclusion: Language values.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 318 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0804723877 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engger".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.04 20".
- catalog subject "Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 Language.".
- catalog subject "Celan, Paul Language.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 Language.".
- catalog subject "European literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Mysticism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN771 .W65 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: beyond inexpressibility -- Linguistic asceticism in Four quartets -- Samuel Beckett's figural evasions -- The negative way negated: Samuel Beckett, counter-mystic -- Broken Wor(l)ds: aesthetics and history in Paul Celan -- The letters of creation: Paul Celan and the Kabbalah -- Conclusion: Language values.".
- catalog title "Language mysticism : the negative way of language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan / Shira Wolosky.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".