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The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : University of Virginia Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823275656
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Writing of SpiritDDC classification:
  • 401
LOC classification:
  • PB35.P687 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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