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... becomes an actor who stages a universe in the theater of his flesh . A book's finite language could be endlessly elaborated , but a vision frees us from the need or desire to say the words . Language becomes revelation by reso- nating ...
... becomes an actor who stages a universe in the theater of his flesh . A book's finite language could be endlessly elaborated , but a vision frees us from the need or desire to say the words . Language becomes revelation by reso- nating ...
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... becomes flesh . These chapters are a wheel of alternative postures , of fleshly spaces . Visionary space is the child born of our cohabitation with the language on the page . When we shape our bodies to the rhythm of literature , the ...
... becomes flesh . These chapters are a wheel of alternative postures , of fleshly spaces . Visionary space is the child born of our cohabitation with the language on the page . When we shape our bodies to the rhythm of literature , the ...
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... becomes space ; at the idea- tional crisis of Paradise Regained space becomes time . " The Metaphoric Structure of “ Paradise Lost ” ( Baltimore , 1962 ) , p . 68. But despite Christ's historicity , the anxious sense of passing time is ...
... becomes space ; at the idea- tional crisis of Paradise Regained space becomes time . " The Metaphoric Structure of “ Paradise Lost ” ( Baltimore , 1962 ) , p . 68. But despite Christ's historicity , the anxious sense of passing time is ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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