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... experience a fragile but exquisite vision of the apocalypse . The elegiac situation becomes the occasion for ... experiences in himself , his human history fades : knowledge of mortality and guilt dissolves , and he prepares to risk his ...
... experience a fragile but exquisite vision of the apocalypse . The elegiac situation becomes the occasion for ... experiences in himself , his human history fades : knowledge of mortality and guilt dissolves , and he prepares to risk his ...
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... experience . The Prelude begins with the poet's need to harmonize these two areas of experience — the yearnings for contemplative solitude in nature and the cares and demands of the human world . Again the rhythm of recurring spaces is ...
... experience . The Prelude begins with the poet's need to harmonize these two areas of experience — the yearnings for contemplative solitude in nature and the cares and demands of the human world . Again the rhythm of recurring spaces is ...
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... experience . All Bur- roughs's work tries to create a radical perceptual situation . When he invites us to fold in our own language , to enter the text at any point , he is not only proposing a specialized activity but also alert- ing ...
... experience . All Bur- roughs's work tries to create a radical perceptual situation . When he invites us to fold in our own language , to enter the text at any point , he is not only proposing a specialized activity but also alert- ing ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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