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... writes that Christian eschatology in medieval literature is in many ways more compatible with a figural treatment than with a symbolic or alle- gorical one , for the figural method " provides the medieval inter- pretation of history ...
... writes that Christian eschatology in medieval literature is in many ways more compatible with a figural treatment than with a symbolic or alle- gorical one , for the figural method " provides the medieval inter- pretation of history ...
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... writes , “ is the Generation of the Spirit " ( D , 269 ) , but the phrases are reversible , for there is no simple causality in a world universally degraded . The verbal process in Swift is not linear but labyrinthine ; the language is ...
... writes , “ is the Generation of the Spirit " ( D , 269 ) , but the phrases are reversible , for there is no simple causality in a world universally degraded . The verbal process in Swift is not linear but labyrinthine ; the language is ...
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... writes , at the moment that he writes . Charles Olson , Selected Writings , 16-19 To write a poem is to breathe or dream in a field . The page is a field on which a net of words or a sheaf of corn is stretched tight— to catch birds ...
... writes , at the moment that he writes . Charles Olson , Selected Writings , 16-19 To write a poem is to breathe or dream in a field . The page is a field on which a net of words or a sheaf of corn is stretched tight— to catch birds ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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