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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 139–152.
Published: 01 April 2018
... : Acumen , 2014 . Pessin Sarah . “ Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism .” In Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity , edited by Fagenblat Michael , 180 – 97 . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2017 . Pessin Sarah . “ Piety, Love...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... In the late ancient and medieval periods, it shows, those seeking God undertake ritualized repetition of prayers, reading, and bodily mortification. In texts teaching apophasis, students learn within the context of a personal relationship to the teacher, as students seek to repeat the practices, stances...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 41–55.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in the novel; the other occurs through apophasis. Apophasis is the ideal rhetorical device for registering Pym s recurring bouts of insensibility. Even a partial list affirms an incantatory litany of vertigo. It is hardly possible to conceive the extrem ity o f my te rro r (10). H ad a thousand lives h u n g u...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 183–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the University of Colorado 2018 apophasis performance fire Marguerite Porete The life and works of Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. On June 1, 1310, Marguerite, who belonged to the beguines—the community of religious laywomen that flourished in the Low Countries during the thirteenth...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 221–225.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that longs to utter the m ost ruined and im possible o f words. Apophasis is not sim ply a rhetorical inversion, but the eucharistie m ovem ent o f form that responds m ost urgently to the trau ma of spirit. If the messianic lyric m ust avoid naming God as such, it does so because radical form acts...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 21–42.
Published: 01 April 2018
... find, as a result, is a version of mysticism that locates its radicality in its persistent opposition and negation—a mysticism reduced to a radical apophasis. It seems that there are grounds for this kind of claim, which, in Goytisolo’s case, emerge in response to the totalitarian regime of Francoist...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 101–113.
Published: 01 November 2024
... emphasis). 11 Beyond definition, beyond description, beyond comparison, beyond language—to “know” God is only to know that we cannot know. But does this mean there is no God? Yes, it does. And it also means there is no not God. As the philosopher Sarah Pessin writes: “Apophasis with respect to God...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 89–98.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., "The Unnameable," WeirdTales 6 (1923): 82. 27 J. P. W illiam s, Denying Divinity: Apophasis in the Patristic Christian and Soto Zen BuddhistTraditions (Oxford: Oxford U niversity Press, 2000), 13, 211. 28 See Nicola Masciandaro, "The One w ith a Hand: An Essay on Em bodim ent, Labor, and Alienation," Rhizomes 19...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 79–88.
Published: 01 March 2010
... techniques (including m etonym y, parataxis, and apophasis) all of w h ich c o n trib u te to h o w "S h e lle y's sense o f present absence becom es e m b o d ie d in her o w n reaction: she is m o d e lin g h o w a reader sh o u ld th rill to her prose." "O n G h o sts" th e re fore reproduces...
