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Page 85
... fallen world of flesh : its internal and external landscapes are created by the limits and conditions of each character's perception . Neither Christ nor Satan ever really sees space in the other's terms , though the same spaces lie ...
... fallen world of flesh : its internal and external landscapes are created by the limits and conditions of each character's perception . Neither Christ nor Satan ever really sees space in the other's terms , though the same spaces lie ...
Page 93
... fallen flesh because it is himself and what he feeds upon . The serpent is self- devouring : he reveals a satanic image of nature as an open - mouthed leviathan , a fallen world that plots to devour its own Son . But Christ need not ...
... fallen flesh because it is himself and what he feeds upon . The serpent is self- devouring : he reveals a satanic image of nature as an open - mouthed leviathan , a fallen world that plots to devour its own Son . But Christ need not ...
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... fallen world . With the human body as both a fallen and regenerated form , Blake's iconography becomes obsessed with this body's potential for an ecstatic and expansive bilateral symmetry . His agonized figures torture the self ...
... fallen world . With the human body as both a fallen and regenerated form , Blake's iconography becomes obsessed with this body's potential for an ecstatic and expansive bilateral symmetry . His agonized figures torture the self ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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