With Four Quartets as the supreme example, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened and...
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With Four Quartets as the supreme example, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened and text-enlivening "trivial" function words to result in often easily overlooked subtle but vital "sea changes". Cover -- Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar -- Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Preface -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Geology of Narrative Cultures: Still Motion, Matrix of Void of the Chinese Jar, and Hidden Message of Function Words -- "A Chinese Jar" Motionless in Motion: Hidden Values of Matrix of Void -- Motion on the GRound: Verbal Transformation as Nominalization -- Motion on the GRound: Nominalization as Reification and Personification through Itemization -- Motion on the GRound: Verbal Transformation as Verbalization -- Motion on the GRound: Verbalization as Functionalization -- Motion on the GRound: A Special Case of "And" -- Motion on the GRound: A Case of "Still" -- Motion on the GRound: A Case of Pause and Stress -- Reconciliation with the Least Reconcilable Where Most Unlikely -- Conclusion: the Trivial and Void That Speak Volumes in Silence -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- "Burnt Norton" -- PERCEIVING TIME: FREEING TIME CAUGHT IN ITS LIMITED CONCEPTUAL BEING -- Pattern's Irreplaceable Role in Time's Spatiotemporal Cognition and Appreciation -- Setting "I" in Time: Functionalization of Time with Conceptual and Phonemic Being of "I" -- Reviving Time: Chiastic Pattern of Time through Verbal TRANSFORMATION -- Flip-Flopping with Time: Nominalization as Contextualized Itemization -- Criss-Crossing with Time: Verbalization as Enlivened Nominalization -- Conclusion: Grasping Timely Timeless Time in Motionless Motion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- "East Coker" -- STAYING ALIVE TENACIOUSLY WITH TIME ON A WASTE LAND -- Land: A Perpetual Resting Place or a Springboard the Worlds Beyond -- Poetry as Imagined Dialogue with Time through Elusive "You" -- Power of Humility: Reification of Wisdom in Words -- Power of Humility: The Trivial That Makes the Magnificent.
With Four Quartets as the supreme example, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened and...
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With Four Quartets as the supreme example, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened and text-enlivening "trivial" function words to result in often easily overlooked subtle but vital "sea changes". Cover -- Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar -- Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Preface -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Geology of Narrative Cultures: Still Motion, Matrix of Void of the Chinese Jar, and Hidden Message of Function Words -- "A Chinese Jar" Motionless in Motion: Hidden Values of Matrix of Void -- Motion on the GRound: Verbal Transformation as Nominalization -- Motion on the GRound: Nominalization as Reification and Personification through Itemization -- Motion on the GRound: Verbal Transformation as Verbalization -- Motion on the GRound: Verbalization as Functionalization -- Motion on the GRound: A Special Case of "And" -- Motion on the GRound: A Case of "Still" -- Motion on the GRound: A Case of Pause and Stress -- Reconciliation with the Least Reconcilable Where Most Unlikely -- Conclusion: the Trivial and Void That Speak Volumes in Silence -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- "Burnt Norton" -- PERCEIVING TIME: FREEING TIME CAUGHT IN ITS LIMITED CONCEPTUAL BEING -- Pattern's Irreplaceable Role in Time's Spatiotemporal Cognition and Appreciation -- Setting "I" in Time: Functionalization of Time with Conceptual and Phonemic Being of "I" -- Reviving Time: Chiastic Pattern of Time through Verbal TRANSFORMATION -- Flip-Flopping with Time: Nominalization as Contextualized Itemization -- Criss-Crossing with Time: Verbalization as Enlivened Nominalization -- Conclusion: Grasping Timely Timeless Time in Motionless Motion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- "East Coker" -- STAYING ALIVE TENACIOUSLY WITH TIME ON A WASTE LAND -- Land: A Perpetual Resting Place or a Springboard the Worlds Beyond -- Poetry as Imagined Dialogue with Time through Elusive "You" -- Power of Humility: Reification of Wisdom in Words -- Power of Humility: The Trivial That Makes the Magnificent.
