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... that “became flesh and lived among us.” 72 Lanyer furthermore refers to the topic of her poems as the “Matter,” a term that would have had for her contemporary readers the very clear theological denotation of the “characteristic sensible element or sign used in a sacrament.” 73 Its matter is what gave...

..., as well as the general concept of the sign, were rooted in the perception of a problem too often overlooked: that of the characterization of the data in the social and cultural sciences. Just as Saussure showed that the real problem of linguistics is not, what does it mean? but what are the units...

...Miguel Tamen Toner Anne , Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 ), 255 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Miguel Tamen; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Toner Anne , Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 ), 255 pp. ...

...Mikhail Epstein In this guest column, Epstein offers “a new sign” that, he argues, resolves difficulties that have arisen in many theories and practices, including linguistics, semiotics, literary theory, poetics, aesthetics, ecology, ecophilology, eco-ethics, metaphysics, theology, psychology...

... approach misses is that even the religious discourses of the period were tied to a long and in no way local epistemological debate about signs and their meaning, whose roots are to be found in Greek and Latin rhetorical theory. This first installment of “Tokens of Love” commences a discussion of the role...

.... Although there are signs that this tragicomic episode of intellectual history has run its course, two contemporary sites of antirelativist energy are worth noting. One is the claim that so-called cultural relativism is refuted by the existence of cognitive universals. The other is the fear that evaluative...

... are inseparable from is also a sign that we are not self-sufficient creatures. Thus, the piece concludes, inseparability is evidence of the species' gregariousness, and the body is only one among many tokens of a person's soul. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Wittgenstein inseparability soul body...

...Yvonne Friedman Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin...

... that in fact they were terms of psychological abuse, signs that men and women of political commitment could not understand, let alone accept, others who were not committed to one side or other in the revolutionary struggle. This paper takes issue with the egregious simplicity of that that attitude, while...

...Christophe Pons As part of a cluster of articles on religious exopraxis, within a larger symposium on xenophilia, this essay protests against the optimistic casting of exopraxis as a sign of fluidity, porosity, and openness. It argues instead that the pragmatic capacity to navigate alien practices...

...Yaakov A. Mascetti Abstract In the second installment of this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Contextualism—the Next Generation,” Donne's religious poetry is set in dialogue not only with the “Great Controversy” of the 1560s over the nature of the eucharistic sign but also with pre...

...Alissa Valles Abstract Under the sign of Libitina, the Roman goddess of burials and funerals invoked in Horace's Ode 3.30, this essay provides a celebratory introduction to the work of the Polish Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–44), situating her within the cultural history of commemoration...

... that received little coverage in the press. During 2015, the fiftieth anniversary of the Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate , Francis paid a surprise visit to a new statue in the United States, “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” by Joshua Koffman, as a sign of his endorsement of its radical reconsideration...

... of their own culture elements or signs of enervation, anomie, lack, derangement, waywardness, rigidity, preciousness, or warping. The author concludes that xenophilia neither signals nor facilitates the adulteration that xenophobes so fear. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 xenophilia xenophobia...

... signs, which were frequently letters of the alphabet. the of letters werefrequently which signs, pre a set treatise dance his...

... is that reference to subjective (mental) phenomena can only occur through the media- tion of signs. (Compare Saussure’s well-known observation that the mind, prior to its articulation in language through the “chaîne phonatoire,” is just as amorphous as the “matière...

... COLUMNS THE WOMEN’S MARCH New York, January 21, 2017 Caroline Walker Bynum Although I’m a knitter and there were plenty of patterns available on the web, I didn’t have time to knit a pink pussyhat. But I did make signs — rather staid ones by comparison, as it turned out — before I...

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