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... complete works with a more mean- ingful number system than that developed by Lachmann nearly a century and a half ago. GEORGEF. JONES University of Maryland Defoe 6. Spiritual Autobiography. By G. A. STARR.Princeton: Princeton University...

... University Spiritual Autobiography in Early America. By DANIELB. SHEA,JR. Prince- ton: Princeton University Press, 1968. xvi + 280 pp. $7.50. The abundance of autobiography among writings in English, published or unpublished, is now recognized. Even when selection is made of items...

...C. Roland Wagner Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 -1‘herewas a niiititiy centre before we breathed. allace Stevens THE EXCREMENTAL AND THE SPIRITUAL...

...). PETERMILWARD Sophia University, Tokyo Eichendorfl The Spiritual Geometer. By LAWRENCERADNER. Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Studies, 1970. 372 pp. $8.75. Lawrence Kadner’s book is likely to provoke conflicting responses in its readers. On the one hand, they will no doubt...

...Alex Eric Hernandez Abstract This essay explores tensions between the practice of critique and recent calls for nonreductive engagement with global spiritualities, arguing for an approach to these experiences that is informed by the study of “lived religion.” Beginning with a discussion...

...’ delight in the poem’s “ease and variety,” but it is also a fundamental misreading of the ethics of labor set out in the poem. In its enactment of the spiritual and writerly work of the shepherd, in Milton’s revisions, and in its monodic form, “Lycidas” offers readers a choice between sensual dalliance...

.... This more connective approach seeks to attune Victorian studies to aesthetic projects it has previously overlooked as outside its disciplinary borders. To illustrate this claim, this essay discusses the literary-spiritual project of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship, which flourished...

... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...

...Jan-Melissa Schramm Abstract This essay traces the intense interrelatedness of the three discourses that we now consider distinct but that ask similar questions about the existential value of life and the relationship between spiritual and temporal matters. Law, literature, and theology address...

.... Although Whitehead and Ma emphasize the racial identity of their protagonists, the central concern of their novels lies in a vindication of class superiority, which the novels cast less as socioeconomic advantage than as spiritual endowment. In this way, their narratives function as allegories...

... for desire and action, sin indicates the subject’s splitting by the norms that organize it. Piers Plowman , which explores the medieval split subject through formal experimentation, repeatedly encounters the demands of political, ethical, economic, and spiritual life and repeatedly problematizes all its...

... for others and would help explain Nervo’s willingness to accept Maeterlinck’s ideas and theories regarding the spiritual problems wit5 which they were both preoccupied. It was during his second residence in Europe, beginning in 1905, that Nervo came definitely under the influence...

...Sidonia C. Rosenbaum Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE REVIVAL OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS By SIDONIAC. ROSENBAUM A revival of interest in religion, mysticism, and the spiritual life in general-among philosophers...

... (that is, moments of spiritual illumination, self-less, redeeming, unwilled, and unconsciously attained 1 See my article, “Fullness of Dissonance: Music and the Reader’s Experience of Modern Fiction,”MFS, 25 (1979), 209-22. 2 Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu, ed. Pierre Clarac and Andre...

..., just as Plato had defined it in the Symposium. There Plato develops a theory of two kinds of love based on the two different myths of the birth of Aphrodite. The first is worldly love, Aphrodite Pandemos, daughter of Dione and Zeus. This love is sensual, vulgar. The other, higher or spiritual...

... of the Latin and vernacular Middle Ages. The unity of the poem is seen in the Christian, moral, or anagogical attitudes toward fame, which Koonce examines with an eye both to the spiritual past and the secular present, and thus in a 351 352...

... on coinherence allows the book not only to demonstrate the porosity of the medieval individual—an argument already made convincingly by Charles Taylor and Timothy J. Reiss, among others—but also to conduct a more granular investigation of particular kinds of medieval bodily and spiritual permeability. Some...

..., and also for the discipline at large. But how to begin? A concrete example might be helpful. ▪ ▪ ▪ If a colleague mentions a spiritual practice like meditation or yoga or centering, if she has an icon in her office, if he teaches a class on Milton (ahem), all sorts of entirely appropriate...

... inwardly into his model and attempted the history of a soul. “The true inter- preter,” wrote Du Bos, “must describe, not exactly the work before him, but the spiritual mood created by the work in the reader.” Such creative criticism, the most ambitious but also the most valuable of all...

..., nor is it a symbol of the spiritual world; it is this world universalised, irradiated by the spirit, raised up, as man for ever seeks to raise himself, towards the divine” @. 7). If Godfrey’s study makes me feel uneasy (as it does), the reason is not my inability to believe in the occult...