With Wilde's Salome (1893) as an exemplary text, this book examines the conditions under which speech constructs ecstatic experience. The author considers Wilde's text as a complex Symbolist system of relations between rhetorical devices and attitudes toward language. By identifying the components of the system, the book provides a theoretical model for understanding the power of language to construct specific emotional states.
The dramatic nature of Wilde's play further indicates that, contrary to popular perception, ecstasy is not beyond language but in it. Rapture possesses a voice, but this voice emanates from a communication system which is actually outside of the body which speaks it. Movement toward ecstasy is therefore not a release from system but a supreme manifestation of it.
| ISBN: | 9780820414911 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1991 |
| Author: | Karl Eric Toepfer |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 182 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Acting techniques Language: reference and general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
With Wilde's Salome (1893) as an exemplary text, this book examines the conditions under which speech constructs ecstatic experience. The author considers Wilde's text as a complex Symbolist system of relations between rhetorical devices and attitudes toward language.
The Voice of Rapture features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Acting techniques, Language: reference and general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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The Voice of Rapture was written by Karl Eric Toepfer and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
The Voice of Rapture has 182 pages
Yes it is part of American University Studies. series