Writing Praxis as Soteriologocal Vehicle: Via Negativa from Dionysius the Areopagite to Ramon Del Valle-inclan to Jack Spicer  

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Cline, Kurt

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Fu jen studies: literature & linguistics no. 47 (2014), page 1-16.
Topik: Poetics; Comparative Religion; Mystical Poetry; Modernism Contemporary Poetry

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This essay demonstrates a mystical poetics first theorized in a lineage of thought extending from Proclus to Dionysus the Areopagite to Giordano Bruno. Key to this poetics is apophasis or unsaying, the negation of any positive assertion about the nature of the divine. In apophatic discourse any assertion (kataphasis) is followed by its negation. This soteriological strategy was a writing-centered contemplative exercise designed to still intellectual activity to a degree that the practitioner might come into contact with that which is beyond intellection, which is God. The theory and praxis of Via Negativa was first brought to light as such by Dionysius the Areopagite who had inherited it from a strand of pre-Christian mysticism linking neo-Platonism and Pythagoreanism. The implicit poetics deriving from Via Negativa is perhaps first most fully realized as poetry by the mystical Carmelite poet Saint John of the Cross and the Islamic mystic Ramon Lull. This lineage is strikingly exemplified during the modernist period by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, who applies the Carmelite friar's dark night of the soul in a willful suspension of the senses. In the postmodern period Via Negativa is perhaps most ardently practiced by arch-poet Jack Spicer. An examination of these poets in light of Via Negativa shows negation may not equate with nihilism, but implies a transcendental continuum in which meaning is constructed out of its relationship to meaninglessness.

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