Word: vendler
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There is a fundamental difference, Vendler suggests, between the kind of claim a writer makes on others, who are present and contemporary with her, and her attempt to access hypothetical or potential readers, removed in space and time...
...Vendler distinguishes between these two modes of speech as “horizontal” and “vertical...
...make these jokes only to demonstrate what Vendler is talking about, as well as to point out, however fancifully, that writing is a kind of discourse that yearns for and implies a certain degree of reciprocity...
...Vendler describes how Herbert, through various formal inventions and the creation of unique dramatic situations—for instance, in which the speaker is placed in dialogue, with Jesus himself—is able to create a hypothetical space of intimacy with God, without the distances imposed by contemporary social life or the conventional constraints of the Catholic church...
Each of these essays suggests that the pay-off of the creation of imaginary intimacy is the opportunity to rethink, and attempt to improve, what is available in the “real” world. Vendler describes how these poets produce a kind of “Utopia, in which possible models of human relations are produced, scrutinized, revised, and consolidated...