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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"
List of contents
Chapter 1: Geology of Narrative Cultures: Still Motion, Matrix of Void of the Chinese Jar, and Hidden Message of Function Words
Chapter 2: "Burnt Norton": Timely Timeless Time in Motionless Motion Captured in Worded World
Chapter 3: "East Coker": Knowing Time as Stranded on Land but Enlivened in Words
Chapter 4: "The Dry Salvages": Knowing Oneself through Function Words-Mediated Oceanic View of Time
Chapter 5: "Little Gidding": Reconciliation of the Irreconcilable in the Mode of "a Chinese Jar" through Timely Timeless Time in Motionless Motion
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Interdisciplinary References that Illuminate from within and across Cultures
About the author
Shudong Chen is professor of humanities at Johnson County Community College.
Summary
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"
