The Other Side of Silence: The Poet at the Limits of LanguageConcerned with the crisis of the poet who finds himself at the limits of language and is impelled to go beyond the words. |
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... counter - magic available to him is language . He tells his master Prospero : You taught me language ; and my profit ... Count Henryk , the hero of Krasiński's drama Nieboska komedia ( The Undivine Comedy , 1835 ) , curses the phantom he ...
... counter - magic available to him is language . He tells his master Prospero : You taught me language ; and my profit ... Count Henryk , the hero of Krasiński's drama Nieboska komedia ( The Undivine Comedy , 1835 ) , curses the phantom he ...
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... Count Henryk's story , his private and public life . He is Henryk's only son Orcio , a child poet who goes blind at fourteen . The gift inherited from his father jars against this physical deprivation . Orcio's eyes , which can see far ...
... Count Henryk's story , his private and public life . He is Henryk's only son Orcio , a child poet who goes blind at fourteen . The gift inherited from his father jars against this physical deprivation . Orcio's eyes , which can see far ...
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... Counter - magic , however , requires the same sacrifice as magic received or inherited : Count Henryk knows this instinctively and offers his physical existence by throwing himself from the ramparts into a crevasse . The question ...
... Counter - magic , however , requires the same sacrifice as magic received or inherited : Count Henryk knows this instinctively and offers his physical existence by throwing himself from the ramparts into a crevasse . The question ...
Contents
Adolescent Incantations | 1 |
From CounterMagic to Suicide | 17 |
The Mature Activists | 32 |
Copyright | |
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