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Loud on left : the role of Elijah in Ulysses' metempsychosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
textThe figure of Elijah represents and personifies metempsychosis in Ulysses. Traditionally viewed as a mythic agent of transfiguration, Elijah appears accompanied by thunder at each turning point in the relationship between Stephen and Bloom, pointing ...
Schell, Tekla Hawkins
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Very Nice Indeed: Cyprian Latewood's Masochistic Sublime, and the Religious Pluralism of Against the Day

open access: yesOrbit, 2013
My paper deals with mythological/religious imagery and syncretic soteriologies in Thomas Pynchon’s 2006 novel Against the Day, focusing in particular on the character of Cyprian Latewood, bisexual spy, Orpheus stand-in, and masochist par excellence ...
Michael Jarvis
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Emblèmes et fragments emblématiques : influences et résurgences dans la poésie profane de John Donne

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
In the first issue of Emblematica, Peter M. Daly highlighted the importance of the emblem in 16th- and 17th- century literature. According to him, the emblem was used in virtually all forms of verbal and visual communication at the time.
Jean Du Verger
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Agricultural animals in human's life

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries, 2010
The information about domestication and area: of settlement (natural habitat) of such agricultural animals as cows, goats, sheep, horses and pigs is given in the article. For primitive people animals meant to be preys for life support.
T G Shavyrina
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Habiter un corps de petit chien à la première personne : déplacement de point de vue et corporéité animale dans l’Histoire véritable de Montesquieu et Le Petit Toutou de Galli de Bibiena

open access: yesFééries
The article examines the process of projecting the narrative voice into an animal body, using the specific example of the lapdog, a narrative cliché that has been reinvested and reoriented for various purposes.
Florence Magnot-Ogilvy
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The Mask Metempsychosis: Reinventing Cultural Icons

open access: yes, 2013
Apart from the author's personal interest in phenomena dealing with the construction, negotiation, maintenance, manipulation and reification of personal and public identity, this work is based on consistent recent confirmations of masks not only being ...
Lupitu, Calin D.
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“The stars move still”: Haste and Delay in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

open access: yesJournal of Marlowe Studies
Christopher Marlowe’s Faustus exists in a tenuous, even at times tortuous, relationship to time. This essay explores Doctor Faustus’s treatment of impatience and delay in the context of its pacing and its poetics, particularly its use of pentameter. This
Tyler Dunston
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The Doctrine of Metempsychosis in the Sabbatean Kabbalah

open access: yes, 2011
The doctrine of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of human souls, originates from the earliest stage of kabbalah and developed over centuries. It became more popular at the end of the sixteenth century in Lurianic kabbalah. According to Hayyim Vital,
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