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Page 130
... Jerusalem , the poem becomes an englobed and englobing space , a self - encircling or self - creating act for poet and reader . The poem is an enticing structure through which we may deliver ourselves from other wombs - personal or ...
... Jerusalem , the poem becomes an englobed and englobing space , a self - encircling or self - creating act for poet and reader . The poem is an enticing structure through which we may deliver ourselves from other wombs - personal or ...
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... Jerusalem , is flesh - the human body . This body undergoes radical metamor- phoses in the text and in the paintings . It is a “ vehicular " body , a hollow form , a nexus for aesthetic and somatic transformations . It is a vehicle both ...
... Jerusalem , is flesh - the human body . This body undergoes radical metamor- phoses in the text and in the paintings . It is a “ vehicular " body , a hollow form , a nexus for aesthetic and somatic transformations . It is a vehicle both ...
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... Jerusalem . I ; The wings of the Spectre and the heavy red wings of the Dragon enclose our limited vision in the blue wings of the mundane shell . Yet " In every bosom a Universe expands , as wings " ( 34 , 49 ) . The restricting wings ...
... Jerusalem . I ; The wings of the Spectre and the heavy red wings of the Dragon enclose our limited vision in the blue wings of the mundane shell . Yet " In every bosom a Universe expands , as wings " ( 34 , 49 ) . The restricting wings ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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