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... body of the poet . If we are to take Blake's world - body metaphor seriously , we must see the generated body ( still vegetable , still closed ) as the locus of the spiritual body of imagination . This imagination is real not as a ...
... body of the poet . If we are to take Blake's world - body metaphor seriously , we must see the generated body ( still vegetable , still closed ) as the locus of the spiritual body of imagination . This imagination is real not as a ...
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... body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects this violated body in a primal act of self - assertion . But his own language now becomes inoperable , for the body controls the structure of his verbal ...
... body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects this violated body in a primal act of self - assertion . But his own language now becomes inoperable , for the body controls the structure of his verbal ...
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... body . As inexplicable and intoler- able as this statement will be to his readers , he literally intends the end of the human body as we know it . He invokes a radical silence that follows the explosion of the body outward into space ...
... body . As inexplicable and intoler- able as this statement will be to his readers , he literally intends the end of the human body as we know it . He invokes a radical silence that follows the explosion of the body outward into space ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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