The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory (review)

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 508-511
Author(s):  
Michael L Hall
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Theory Review

Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory (review)

symplokē ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 348-350
Author(s):  
Philip. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Theory Review

"That Eternal Language," or Why Coleridge was Right about Imaging and Meaning

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Reid
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Natural Form ◽  
Mental Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Way

AbstractOne of the common mysteries of art, and a barrier to our understanding of Coleridge's claim that natural form lies at the heart of knowledge, is the problem of how it is that art can embody meaning in its sensuous forms—for instance, in visual, tactile or auditory "images." To our common way of thinking, this seems mysterious, for we usually think of thinking as something which is propositional and linguistic, or (though less popular these days) as being in some sense "pure" and above both the senses and language. But while propositional thinking is certainly a dimension of our mental experience, we should not let it blind us to the more fundamental ways in which we perceive and understand the world through the senses. Thus we should not think of syllogistic argument as the paradigm for thought, as the Anglo-American philosophical world has tended to, nor should we think of thought as paradigmatically linguistic in the way the literary theory of the last thirty years has suggested. Rather, we should find that paradigm in those moments when we arelookingat the world (looking out of the window at a tree, for instance). Concrete sensuous form, or image, I shall argue, provides a more fundamental paradigm for thought—a paradigm which art brings to the fore, and which is also fundamentally Coleridgean.

Piéron on the Senses

1956 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 177-177
Author(s):  
LEO M. HURVICH
Keyword(s):  
The Senses

Review of The Citadel of the Senses and Other Essays.

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 820-820
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
The Senses

The physiology of the senses.

1893 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gray M'Kendrick ◽  
William Snodgrass
Keyword(s):  
The Senses
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