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...Timothy Hofmeister Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Timothy Hofmeister Classical Analogy as Discursive Act: A Reading of Derek Walcott s As John to Patmos That Derek Walcott s most recent works, Omeros and The Odyssey: A Stage Version, involve the Western classical tradition1...

...M. L. Story Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 SIX ANALOGIES IN SEARCH OF A PHILOSOPHY M. L. Story PHILOSOPHIES are built consciously or unconsciously around an earthly analogy. The time-honored requirement or criterion of a philosophy, that it be systematic, is another way...

... to make it afford otherwise. This very potential to invent affordances is precisely how I conceptualize everyday lives lived with disability as being analogous to the reimagined space of aesthetic performance and its reorientations. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 affordances activism...

... analogous to the academic freedom of faculty described by application of professional norms. While we seek to clarify the boundary between these freedoms, we argue that they can be mutually reinforcing to the benefit of both academics and the broader public. We conclude that more is to be gained...

...- nizing the hubbub of other voices around us. Above all, no analogy (whether of being or of faith) can be established between God’s voice and the voice of the other. 6516 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 100:2 / sheet 33 of 284 What should we make...

... encounter digital information processing, then the counter- model offers an analog process of transmission.While in the context of Fama or mass media it is a matter of processing differences, a process that ‘‘shifts’’ and ‘‘dissimulates’’ its object, model  seeks to guarantee the passing and maintaining...

..., his submission to the will of God, leads to his death. Different motivations do not issue in dif­ ferent overt results, and Becket s moment of decision cannot be fully exhibited through action.5 The key to understanding the moment of decision is to recog­ nize the analogy between Becket and Job...

... begin by looking for useful 670 Andrew Sullivan analogies to the paradox of an inherent homosexual dignity that, as a behavior, becomes homosexual iniquity. Greed, for example, might be said to be an innate characteristic of human beings, which, if acted upon, is always bad. But the analogy falls apart...

... points out, to define style in general, to isolate and identify individual styles, to assign styles to chronological periods, to keep track of overlapping of styles in time(s) and place(s), and to indicate legitimate analogies between styles in the various arts under consideration. The five chapters...

...Sidney Monas Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Sidney Monas Perestroika in Reverse Perspective: The Reforms of the 1860s Reference to the year 1921 has become a touchstone in the political language of pere­ stroika. Gorbachev and his associates use it often as an analogue...

... on the analogical experience of grief: The action of grief responds to and reflects the demand for analogy, for the possibility of relocating the lost integrity of one object in another as a way of expressing the maintenance of emotional connections that are threatening to disappear. 5 Accordingly, the composition...

... to Romanticism. It is difficult, he points out, to define style in general, to isolate and identify individual styles, to assign styles to chronological periods, to keep track of overlapping of styles in time(s) and place(s), and to indicate legitimate analogies between styles in the various arts under...

... argument in support of Union Now is the parallel between the Critical Period in American history after the Revolution and today, the analogy between the Continental Congress and the League of Nations, and his hoped for parallel between the establish­ ment of a federal union in 1787 and a similar action...

..., participate by analogy in an action which, from the poet s point of view, is Christian, divine, and eternal. Thus the present study is quite other than a review of Christian sentiments culled from the speeches of Shakespeare s characters. The focus is on a profounder kind of evidence for Shakespeare s...

... culture and not a theoretical ne­ cessity of theatrical power in general. 30 Several observations are in order here. First, the method that oper­ ates in the first stage where Shakespeare s text is read to reveal the same techniques identified in Harriot s is basically analogy. The same paradox by which...

.... The word was originally controller. The first syll­ able was altered to its present spelling through a mistaken identification with French compte, account. Bridal is from brideale, the last syllable having been changed by analogy with espousal, betrothal, and other words in al. Hiccough has noth­ ing...

... and theologically, the way beyond the impasse of univocity and equi- vocity is analogy: similarity in difference, otherness within sameness, pres- ence and absence, nonidentical repetition. Is Certeau’s heterological project more than...

..., therefore, concerns the equivocation—which here means the difference—between name and being (the essence or defi- nition, ousia), a difference determined according to reason (logos), hence, by correspondence or by analogy. In the Categories, Aristotle limits the problem of homonymic...

...” that clutter the Victorian novel’s thickly described domestic and psychic interi- ors. What I will suggest here is that the particular historical interest of these references to optical devices is their implicit invitation to readers to consume fiction as an analogical representation...

... of the 1590 s senses, to a greater or lesser degree, the analogy of the family and the state. What Mr. Pierce has done is not so much new as it is intensive. All those correspondences I feel I could have worked out for myself Mr. Pierce has worked out for me in considerable detail, ex­ ploring fully...