The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science.
Pourciau, Sarah M.
The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages)
Cover -- The Writing of Spirit -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. "THE ETERNAL ETYMOLOGY": FROM SPRACHGEIST TO FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE -- 1. Language Ensouled -- Grammatical Life -- Life Science -- Kosmon Psychon -- How Inflection Unfolds -- Etymology: The Method -- Spirit Superfluous? -- The Demise of Analysis -- 2. Saussure's Dream -- In Search of the Literal -- Neither Flesh nor Spirit -- But Rather Writing -- Postméditation -- 3. Verse Origins -- Through the Letters Wafts the Spirit -- 2 L, 2 P, 4 R (= 2+2) -- Little Sticks, Letter Rhymes -- The Rhythm of Geist -- The Cult of Cancellation -- PART II. TENDING TOWARD ZERO: FROM RUNES TO PHONEMES -- 4. Wagner's Poetry of the Spheres -- Philology + Harmony -- Wotan's Staff -- 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory -- The Wagnerian Sound of Sense -- Wave Systems (Acoustics) -- The Undulating All (Psychophysics) -- A Philology of the Ear (Poetics) -- 6. Jakobson's Zeros -- Analogy: The Method -- Zero Degree Rhyme -- The Silent e -- Mama and Papa -- In Retrospect: The Future -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
No detailed description available for "The Writing of Spirit".
9780823275656
Languages, Modern--Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
PB35.P687 2017
401
The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages)
Cover -- The Writing of Spirit -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. "THE ETERNAL ETYMOLOGY": FROM SPRACHGEIST TO FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE -- 1. Language Ensouled -- Grammatical Life -- Life Science -- Kosmon Psychon -- How Inflection Unfolds -- Etymology: The Method -- Spirit Superfluous? -- The Demise of Analysis -- 2. Saussure's Dream -- In Search of the Literal -- Neither Flesh nor Spirit -- But Rather Writing -- Postméditation -- 3. Verse Origins -- Through the Letters Wafts the Spirit -- 2 L, 2 P, 4 R (= 2+2) -- Little Sticks, Letter Rhymes -- The Rhythm of Geist -- The Cult of Cancellation -- PART II. TENDING TOWARD ZERO: FROM RUNES TO PHONEMES -- 4. Wagner's Poetry of the Spheres -- Philology + Harmony -- Wotan's Staff -- 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory -- The Wagnerian Sound of Sense -- Wave Systems (Acoustics) -- The Undulating All (Psychophysics) -- A Philology of the Ear (Poetics) -- 6. Jakobson's Zeros -- Analogy: The Method -- Zero Degree Rhyme -- The Silent e -- Mama and Papa -- In Retrospect: The Future -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
No detailed description available for "The Writing of Spirit".
9780823275656
Languages, Modern--Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
PB35.P687 2017
401