TY - BOOK AU - Malgorzata Grzegorzewska AU - Jean Ward AU - Mark Burrows PY - 2015 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2364-2882 SN - 9783653049053 TI - Breaking the Silence T2 - Poetry and the Kenotic Word DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-04905-3 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048769 N2 - This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. An introductory discussion of language and prayer is followed by reflections linking poetry with religious experience and theology, especially apophatic, and questioning the ability of language to reach out beyond itself. The central section foregrounds the motif of the suffering flesh, while the final section, including essays on seventeenth-century English metaphysical poetry and several of the great poets of the twentieth century, is devoted to the sounds and rhythms which give a poem its own kind of «body». KW - Srache und Schweigen, metaphysische Dichtung, Srpache und Gebet LA - English ER -