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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 September 2008
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doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp.
Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls
“psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the reputation of Scotland’s national bard, a figure resolving a multiplicity of citizens into the image of unity, Burns’s poems nevertheless present complex, creaturely subjects that seemingly consist in more and less than themselves, in more and less than “one.” The poems thus make a narrow case...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 197–226.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2001). She is writing a book on literary and philosophical imaginations of autonomy. The Monster in a Dark Room: Frankenstein,
Feminism, and Philosophy
Nancy Yousef
t is as a giant that the creature makes his first appearance in Franken-
I...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 415–417.
Published: 01 September 2008
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doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp.
Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls
“psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 418–420.
Published: 01 September 2008
...). Reading Knut Faldbakken:
Growth, Intersubjectivity, Truth is forthcoming.
doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp.
Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2008
....
doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp.
Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls
“psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 423–426.
Published: 01 September 2008
....
doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp.
Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls
“psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 197–204.
Published: 01 June 1950
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Nevertheless in every circumstance it is within God’s power to determine the
creature to choose, and freely choose, according to his will; but not without a
change or access of circumstance over and above the base act of determination on
3 Letters of Hopkins to Bridges, pp. 265-66.
4 Note...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 153–170.
Published: 01 June 1964
... of angels, and so forth) is involved in
the difficulty of knowing one’s unequals. As Raphael makes clear to
Adam, though creatures have a common substance and language, com-
munication is a complex act, at once an exchange of information and
a labeling of identity.5 Satan’s evil is an undermining...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., “not an ineluctable mystery essentially beyond their grasp.” Yet to insist that there is nothing instinctual about human creativity and nothing creative about other creatures’ instinctive making of homes, tools, and other equipment for living is to say something that is true only as long as creativity and instinct...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 573–580.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., relegating themes of biopoetics and sovereignty to a secondary status. Menely’s book does an outstanding job, in a short space, of (re)reading familiar eighteenth-century texts in relation to the “creaturely voice” while also connecting such texts to fully elaborated philosophical and political contexts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 1972
... descension into the
lowly toad, presumably as unlovely and phlegmatic then as now. The
serpent, on the other hand, is described not only as lovely but as subtle,
which appears to mean that it is more intellectual than other creatures.
We are clearly not meant to identify it with the repulsive...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 367–376.
Published: 01 September 1949
... instant . . .
in that country which he discover’d not long ago, where Horses & mules are the
reasonable Creatures, and men the Beasts of burden. But thanks to heaven 81
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368 Swift atad tlic H orscs
hen~ive.~In the face of this evidence...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 131–139.
Published: 01 June 1964
... with its spirit. The heart
has an especial heat. It certainly beats and has motion as if it
were a living creature. Thus it is said to be formed first of all.. . .
The heart dies last. This member alone is not weakened by ills,
though it does not escape the punishments of life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-
work for deploying reason to arrive at truth and certainty in science.
Determining that the only thing beyond doubt is his own self-reflecting
existence, Descartes famously distinguishes thinking from material sub-
stances and maintains that human beings are the only creatures that
synthesize...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 325–331.
Published: 01 September 1950
... Copperfield, remarked in his preface that
he felt “as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the
shadowy world,” with a “crowd of creatures of his brain . . . going
from him forever.” Differing from his preceding novels in that it was
written in the first person, an innovation...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 422–428.
Published: 01 December 1951
... are located in the earth, in the sea, and on “the forehead of the
encroaching flood”; that “the Deep” is to be found on the earth, in
the earth, or in the sea; and that “they below” are men on earth, men
beneath the sea, creatures of the deep, fishes, mermen, people of the
lower world, and earth...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 376–402.
Published: 01 December 1974
..., heroic; “aboue all creatures, he loues souldiers” (Sutton, p. 7), not
simply because he was a bellicose God, but also because soldiering both
required the expenditure of a great deal of energy and could express an
inner, spiritual state of faithfulness and perhaps even pragmatic
realism...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 49–61.
Published: 01 March 1940
... God
worketh” in his creatures animate and inanimate, “or they in or
with each other.”6 This evaluation of human powers, however, is
not to be taken as admission of defeat. On both points, the su-
premacy of God over nature and man’s imperfect comprehension of
natural operations...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 282–294.
Published: 01 December 1957
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of continuity-f an infinite, number of links ranging in hierarchical order from
the meagerest kind of existents, which barely escape nonexistence, through
“every possible” grade up to the ens perfectissimum-or, in a somewhat more
orthodox version, to the highest possible kind of creature, between...
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