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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Bernard McGinn Abstract Teresa of Ávila has long been noted as one of the most influential Christian mystical teachers for her doctrine on contemplative prayer, mystical graces, and union with God. Her writings, especially the Life and The Interior Castle , have been widely read from the later...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
... will. The specific types of addiction a person inclined toward were determined by a host of variables, including temperament, age, and gender. As this article reveals, in early modern accounts of addicted behavior young men were associated with lust and old men with contemplation, while women were considered more...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to monastic discourses on the life of contemplation and the life of action. While critique is widely understood to indicate that something is undone or swept away, there is recurring difficulty determining what constitutes a truly new or transformative turn. This is a political as well as theoretical matter...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and the mystical in Christian theology—the contemplative versus the active life. Long believed to be oppositional ends of Christian practice, the active and the contemplative come together in McGinn’s description of the last fifteen years of Teresa of Ávila’s life in which, after earlier claims about...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of a scriptural narrative with the aim of its bodily and affective recapitulation through assimilation. Angela of Foligno, a Franciscan tertiary, contemplates pieces of the flesh of the wounded Christ, seeking the dissipation of her own self through identification with the wounded divine body. By means...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 116–133.
Published: 01 December 2005
... boasts that according to John Jacob Astor his dom inant virtues are prudence and m ethod (BS 636). Prudence is Cicero s one category concerned with contemplation rather than action; however, in his guidelines for a prudent life, his main con cern is avoidance of too much contemplation. He has...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2020
... also closes its cycle by returning to darkness. Some traditions treat the dark moon and the new moon as one and the same. Others distinguish them as separate entities, with the dark moon indicating the pause between cycles. The dark moon can provide a moment of retreat, of quiet contemplation...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 9–21.
Published: 01 March 2017
... plation." To ask w hat enables contractions is thus to ask w h at contem plation is. Contemplation has nothing to do w ith thinking; it is neither m editation nor reflection and is unrelated to representation, im agination or apperception; it is neither conceptual nor pic torial. It is not a mental...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 35–40.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., or the com position o f h e r figure u p o n the ottom an. (239-40) Then again, later in the narrative: Mrs. Merdle shrugged h er snowy shoulders (391) and Mrs. Merdle was so m uch engaged with the contemplation of her arms (beautiful-formed arms, and the very thing for bracelets (392). In Phiz s...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 April 2023
... a measure of their success. Among the many other unanswered questions that remain about insurrections, the primary questions Smith, Mazzaferro, and Plasencia ask us to contemplate—do insurrections ever come to an end? are they ever successful? do they remain pure potential?—suggest at the very least...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 241–246.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Tolosa (1212), this entry furnishes a memory for Alfonso VIII of Castile (r. 1158–1214) that is tied to the martial role of the monarchy and its archbishop and is performed in the context of divine prayer and contemplation. In contrast, there is the case of Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248). Relieved...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 43–57.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and comes from the misty mountains to receive the noblest homage of an intelligent creature—praise.” 12 In a moment of “sublime admiration,” God “is worshipped in a temple not made with hands, and the world seems to contain only the mind that formed and contemplates it.” 13 A leap from matter...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 April 2018
... source from which all forms manifest. In the conventional mode of perception (i.e., the journey of contraction), we notice only the limited forms of creation—we see only the letters and words that appear on the surface of the scroll. When gazing at a scroll, few people contemplate the design of the white...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 56–68.
Published: 01 March 2001
... attern of Gray s ode by alternating contemplative and light-hearted perspectives on a fly s life and death. A sober view o f a fly s death is presented in the opening three stanzas o f T he Fly, and a lighter, happy view is presented in the last two stanzas. In the first part, the n arrato r...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 43–56.
Published: 01 December 2003
... tran sition, through a deductive method, from far to near, from visu alization of etherial highs and distant horizons through leisurely contemplation of a contented Votary of the mild pastoral Muse to the wonderful description of a bee as an embodiment of all the desirable qualities in a human...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 36–43.
Published: 01 December 2003
... girt shore And the vast wide ocean see, Cloath d in aweful majesty See the curling billows role Wafting treasures to each pole Or if this too tire thy sight, And sweet solitude invite, Would st thou by some murmuring stream Shaded from the sober beam, Soar on contemplations wing Of nature s wonders...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 197–202.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the active intellect to contemplate God as the act of “continuing the sequence of perfections” through which he understands that “all proceed from Him.” 9 Like Yça’s depiction of intellectual enlightenment and the attainment of perfection, an anonymous poem recorded with other converso works...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to the eye that is closed, whereas the vision of the lower colors within the speculum that does not shine ( Shekhinah ) is linked to the eye that is opened.” 9 Wolfson has also stressed this technique’s connection with another technique, the contemplation of sunlight in rippling water, which also appears...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... temporalities and spatialities and myriad intra-active entities-in-assemblages.” 40 This becomes even clearer in the final minutes of Marebito . Following his return to Tokyo, Masuoka briefly avoids his apartment and the strange reality that awaits him there. During this time he contemplates rational...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 October 2023
... at the level of the poem. If the poem, as a whole, can be said to contemplate the fate of the garden, Mahjur incorporates the nonchronology of the ghazal in that contemplation. Rather than a step-by-step transformation of the garden, Mahjur invokes disparate presents to move at their own pace...
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