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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 April 2018
... contemplation rapture union A dangerous crisis took place about noon, January 26, 1582, on the road between Palencia and Burgos in northern Spain. The weather was miserable, cold and windy with torrents of rain, as a small group of wagons with eight nuns, three friars, a cleric of Palencia, and some...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 101–113.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Banchoff and Strauss, The Hypercube: Projections and Slicing . 3 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway , 393 . 2 Zornberg, Particles of Particulars of Rapture , 2–5 . 1 The term overlapping kinespheres comes from the dancer Nancy Stark Smith, who used the term to describe...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 96–100.
Published: 01 November 2024
... resting form as a kind of ecstatic song. For me, there is a current of the rapturous present, like electricity, shooting through. I don’t believe this song is about anyone’s redemption, in particular. Or that it is about redemption at all. Mr. Wood lays out a definitive evolutionary path...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 86–95.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and the practice of yoking the self to this is necessarily erratic. Like singing the lyrics to a song I’ve heard and danced to all my life and finally being able to parse out its meaning. This rapture. This linguistic joy. This spiritual joy. . . . I was washing dishes in the morning before starting...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 41–55.
Published: 01 December 2004
... descriptions of extreme states of delirium or rapture. At the outset, Pym expresses his longing for such states: My visions were of shipwreck and fam ine; of death or captivity am ong bar barian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is a realization of Thomas Paine's c ri tique of Edmund Burke's constitutionalism . Despite Burke's raptures over the British co n sti tu tio n , Paine observes th a t tha t con stitution does not possess "a real existence" in a "visible fo rm " tha t Burke can produce, and therefore, "w e may fairly conclude...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 77–82.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and suggests how authentic the vacillation of delight and pain in the lyric poet's voice seemed to him years later: A pollinaire's lam ent is certainly m ore touching because it had been held back fo r a lo n g tim e, m asked by an e nthusiasm , by a desire fo r rapture, by a sincere rapture, by a passionate...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
... is The Literature o f T errori Longm an, 1996). His m ost recent book is Rapture: Literature, A d d ictio n , Secrecy (Sussex Academ ic Press, 2009) and he is currently at w o rk on The Literature o f Pity. His fifth vo lu m e o f poetry, called Foreign M inistry, w ill appear later this year. M ic h a e l Sayeau...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 41–54.
Published: 01 March 2002
... hough Fanny Price is conversant with Cowper5 an d per haps also with the Lake poets (for she prizes a transparency of a m oonlit lake in C um berland, p. 137), h er rapturous words at the window feed on the conventions of this earlier eighteenthcentury verse which have a clear relevance to h e r...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 247–252.
Published: 01 March 2006
... a victim signaling through the flames." Even as a fiction, the "violence of the tho ugh t" of w hat was done to Jesus, as displayed onscreen, m ight pro duce a real-life catharsis in the audience. Evangelical Protestants have flocked to this intensely Catholic film . Their rapture at the holy screen...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 75–87.
Published: 01 March 2008
... some mem ber o f our household read out to him and others "Feargus' letter." The paper had first to be dried before the fire, and then carefully and evenly cut, so as not to damage a single line o f the alm ost sacred production. This done, Larry . . . settled him self to listen w ith all the rapture o...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 22–29.
Published: 01 December 2005
... embellishes on its few details to create a Geraldine whose actions rival D ante s Beatrice or Petrarch s Laura.7 Whenever Surrey rhapsodizes about his absent beloved, however, Jack punctures the m ood with a more worldly com ment.8 Thus Nashe s Earl finally arrives in Florence and experiences raptures when...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 44–53.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the same Person: His Tone of Voice becomes soft and tender; he is charm d, he dies away with Rapture.7 This sounds pretty much like the kind of reading for which much of Behn s unlineated pentameter was probably intended, and which should have been heard, when the work was read aloud, as a movement...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the beauty o f the w o rk ing body, its syste m s (A.R. A m m o n s can be co u n te d on to do th is fo rm o f a p p re cia tio n b ril liantly) (ask a n e phrologist about kidneys and th e y 'll get all rapturous, too), suggesting that w h a t w e m ig h t co m e to rig h tly call "d is g u s tin g...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 139–154.
Published: 01 March 2010
...: to be present at this great spectacle o f life and never to be liberated from a 14 6 E n g l is h L a n g u a g e N o te s 48.1 S p r in g / s u m m e r 2 0 1 0 sm all hungry shivering s e lf never to be fu lly possessed by the g lo ry we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transform ed...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 129–137.
Published: 01 September 2013
... was.7 Bogost gives an approving nod in his own Alien Phenom enology to Weisman, citing it as evidence of an "alternative perspective" to standard form s of ecological discourse, and a demonstration that to hold "the object-oriented position" means that "w e do not have to w ait for the rapturous...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 180–192.
Published: 01 December 2005
... treatm ent of this story, according to which Endymion experiences the kisses of the goddess (whom he often addresses as Cynthia ) in a rapturous dream: I was distracted, madly did I kiss / The wooing arms which held me. 9 Birdboot, incongruously in the light of his cynicism, tends to adopt a Keatsian...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 58–68.
Published: 01 September 2000
... in a subsequent m inor skirmish, and having his declaration of love interrupted (3.21-31), after being paralyzed with rapture when glimpsing h er radiant form off in the distance (6.26-27), Tancredi finally confronts Clorinda dur ing an infidel attem pt to burn the crusaders siege engine. The raid takes place...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., as when the poet wishes fo r "b lissful rapture" in the Nativity Ode.The epic requires that readers sift the several layers o f its efforts at justification, not all o f which are of equal merit, just as the voice that speaks the poem searches fo r "The meaning, not the name" of inspiration (7.5): Sing...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 57–68.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the Bradshaws to talk of death at her party (280). But then she thinks, D eath was an attem pt to com m unicate; people feeling the impossibility o f reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them ; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an em brace in d eath (280-81). D eath...
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