Metaphor, Making and Mysticism : Radical Re-Imaginings in Language and Art (Hardcover)

Introduction? 1.?Eriugena’s Dream?and Dreaming with Eriugena??Part One: Metaphor and Mysticism??2. Metaphors and/or Negations in Mystical Literature: Considerations from the Work of John of Ruusbroec? 3. Negotiating Speech and Silence in Rumi’s Poetry? 4. Metaphor Users in Late Middle English Women’s Mystical Texts? 5. What Are We to Make of Mysticism???Part Two: Eriugena as Master of Metaphor, Mysticism and Making??6. Eriugena: A Celtic Mystic?? 7. Cur ‘Nihil’ Vocatur: Eriugena on Divine Non-Being??8. Eriugena and Emerson on Thinking Nature??Part Three: Making and Mysticism??9. The Poetic Performance of the Mystical? 10. ‘Complete Surrender’: A Hermeneutic of Listening and Paying Attention? 11. A Hard and Brutal Mysticism? 12. Pseudonymity and Authorship in the Albertine and Pseudo-Albertine Corpus??Epilogue? 13. Exhibiting the Mystical