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... Language is drawn into the mutations which occur on the island ; all the play's language becomes metaphoric , and the dramatic action becomes verbal music . The Tempest's atmosphere , which extends the mind to the landscape of the body ...
... Language is drawn into the mutations which occur on the island ; all the play's language becomes metaphoric , and the dramatic action becomes verbal music . The Tempest's atmosphere , which extends the mind to the landscape of the body ...
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... language . In its original unity , the word occurs at both the beginning and the end of history , for " the end is the beginning born knowing " ( TX , 10 ) . To his readers ' discomfort , Burroughs does not take history on faith ; he ...
... language . In its original unity , the word occurs at both the beginning and the end of history , for " the end is the beginning born knowing " ( TX , 10 ) . To his readers ' discomfort , Burroughs does not take history on faith ; he ...
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... language , the reader finds it incompatible with his own speech . Yet the novels have entered the reader's experience ; their language now exists in his body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects ...
... language , the reader finds it incompatible with his own speech . Yet the novels have entered the reader's experience ; their language now exists in his body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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