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The Triad of Mysticism in Crashaw’s Poetry
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, 2013 This paper begins with the argument that Richard Crashaw’s mysticism can be traced even in the dearth of biographical information. Crashaw’s early family life, his residency at Little Gidding, his conversion to Catholicism, and his grasping of Saint Teresa as personal saint follow definite patterns of mystical lineage that shall be shown as apparent in
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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A Thousand Year Old Bengali Mystic Poetry
সাহিত্য পত্রিকা - Shahitto Potrika | University of Dhaka, 1994 এখন থেকে ১০০ বছরেরও বেশি আগে (১৮৮৬) কলকাতার বেঙ্গল লাইব্রেরির গ্রন্থাগারিক হরপ্রসাদ শাস্ত্রী মুদ্রিত বাংলা পুঁথির সংগ্রহে বিস্মিত হয়ে পুঁথির পাণ্ডুলিপি সংগ্রহে আগ্রহ অনুভব করেন। রাজেন্দ্রলাল মিত্রের মৃত্যুর পর তিনি কলকাতার এশিয়াটিক সোসাইটি কর্তৃক বাংলা, বিহার, আসাম ও উড়িষ্যায় পুঁথি সংগ্রহের দায়িত্ব পান। পুঁথি সংগ্রহের কাজে তৃতীয়বার নেপাল গিয ...
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Is A Little Learning Dangerous?
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that a little learning is often dangerous even for ideal reasoners who are operating in extremely simple scenarios and know all the relevant facts about how the evidence is generated. More precisely, I show that, on many plausible ways of assigning value to a credence in a hypothesis H, ideal Bayesians should sometimes expect other ...
Bernhard Salow
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Analysis of Mystical Language in Mahvi's Poetry
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2023 Mystical poems emerge through a special language and a stable structure in form and meaning and accuracy in that determines the success of poets in their creative access to its field. Mahvi, a famous Kurdish poet, used mystical themes in his poems to create his own poetic imagination and to present his spiritual findings.
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Echoes of Poetry, Echoes of Translation: Rendering into Spanish John O’Donohue’s Echoes of Memory [PDF]
, 2016 Poetry translation has been a constant debate for centuries. Through some of John O’Donohue’s poems from Echoes of Memory, different translating challenges are explained and justified.
Puente Lozano, Isabel
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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The Honey Bee Apis mellifera: An Insect at the Interface between Human and Ecosystem Health. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2022 Papa G +11 more
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The smell of God: scent trails from Ficino to Baudelaire [PDF]
, 2003 God has a smell. Or rather, our sense of smell can bring us to a deeper knowledge of God. This is one aspect of a theory which runs through much of European history from the Renaissance onwards, with fluctuating intensity and with fundamental variations.
Wourm, Nathalie
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