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The incarnate word : literature as verbal space

Print Book, English, 1973
Univ. of Illinois Pr., London, 1973
Criticism, interpretation, etc
285 pages
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Pearl: the circle as figural space
Prospero's island: the visionary body of The tempest
Christ's body and Satan's head: incarnate space in Paradise regained
Form and claustrophobia: intestinal space in A tale of a tub
Blake's Jerusalem: a fourfold vision of the human body
To fold the world into the body's house: perceptual space in The prelude
Suffused-encircling shapes of mind: inhabited space in Williams
The end of the body: radical space in Burroughs
Fields: the body as a text