Seeing the Form: Denise Levertov's "The Jacob's Ladder"
Denise Levertov valorized the imagination as the perceptive faculty whereby it is possible for us to see God. Recent studies in neuroscience back up the insight—shared with Hans Urs von Balthasar and Rowan Williams—that engaging with poetry provides a defamiliarizing experience with language that en...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 474-483 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Beauty
B Neuroscience B Denise Levertov B Poetry B Transformation (motif) |
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| Summary: | Denise Levertov valorized the imagination as the perceptive faculty whereby it is possible for us to see God. Recent studies in neuroscience back up the insight—shared with Hans Urs von Balthasar and Rowan Williams—that engaging with poetry provides a defamiliarizing experience with language that engages the whole person, not just the mind. Here I read Levertov's poem "The Jacob's Ladder" as an argument for and a demonstration of how poetry provides the reader with a unique avenue for spiritual transformation. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0048 |