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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah M. PourciauPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780823275625ISBN 10: 0823275620 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 May 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. 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 * Postmeditation 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 Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, <em>The Writing of Spirit</em> is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism. --John T. Hamilton, Harvard University A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism. -- John T. Hamilton * Harvard University * A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism. -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard University A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism. -John T. Hamilton, Harvard University Author InformationSarah Pourciau is Assistant Professor of German at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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