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Time and poetic speech [electronic resource] : a philosophical investigation / Kwok Kui Wong.

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It begins with the classical understanding of time as flux, and its problems and paradoxes entailing from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant and Husserl. The reader will see how these problems unfold and find reso...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Huang, Guoju
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Subjects:
Rhetoric > Philosophy.
Time > Philosophy.
Time in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: The Flux of Time
  • From Heraclitus to Aristotle
  • Augustine's esse
  • Analogies of Time: Kant
  • Husserl's Stream
  • The Unmoving "I"?
  • Chapter 3: From Chaos to Order
  • Bergson on Pure Duration
  • Movement of the Soul: Plato
  • Time and Speech: Plato Again
  • Language and Ordered Time
  • Example: Richard II's Soliloquy
  • Chapter 4: Affect and Language
  • Pathos, Affect, and Emotion
  • Theory of Affected Time
  • Origin of Language from Affect: Herder
  • Language as Articulation: Humboldt
  • Conclusion.
  • Chapter 5: Rhythm
  • Introduction
  • The Schopenhauer Effect
  • Rhetoric and Rhythm
  • Time and Space: From Diderot, Kant to Hegel
  • Rhythm and Symbolic Expression: Schlegel
  • Actio in distans: Nietzsche's Theory of Rhythm
  • Theory of the Continuum of Affect
  • Rhythm and Analogies of Experience: Kant
  • Rhythm and Resonance: Bergson
  • Semantic Sphere: Schopenhauer
  • Example: King Lear
  • Chapter 6: Metaphor
  • Introduction
  • Metaphoric Transference
  • Metaphor and Affect: Herder
  • Kant on Metaphor
  • Ricoeur's Theory of Metaphor
  • Metaphoric of Change
  • Word and Sentence.
  • Metaphor in Modern Drama
  • Chapter 7: Syntax
  • Rhyme and Sentence
  • Syntax in Classical Rhetoric: Cicero
  • Cassirer on Syntax
  • Syntax in Lyric
  • Subject and Substance
  • Delivery: Hamlet's Instruction
  • Challenges from Modern Theater
  • Rhythm and Figuration in Life
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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