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The Politics of Faith in the Work of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ana Castillo, and Sandra Cisneros [PDF]

, 2003
If Chicanas are perceived as a communal threat because they are closer to the carnal, according to the Church, they paradoxically are worshipped as the female divine within indigenous practices like Yoruba or Mexica as well.
Pagan, Darlene
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Converting to Things Foreknown: Heaney’s Marvelous Imagination in “Station Island” [PDF]

Estudios Irlandeses, 2016
This essay explores Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” series in its procession of visions during a pilgrimage to the island of Lough Derg. I argue that Heaney works out in this series a picture of the meeting of worlds, of the worldliness of the present ...
Ryan L. Womack
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Gottfried Benn and Martin Heidegger on the Essence of Poetry. The Story of a Might-Have-Been Meeting [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2019
The articles focuses on the complicated relations complicated relations between Gottfried Benn and Martin Heidegger. The great poet and the great philosopher were not only witnesses and spokesmen of their time, but above all theorists and practitioners ...
Oxana A. Koval, Ekaterina B. Kriukova
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Wilderness on the Page [PDF]

, 2017
This essay explores the role that literature can play in a rethinking of Western culture\u27s relationship with the natural ...
Steffler, John
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Ways of not reading Gertrude Stein [PDF]

, 2015
I situate the controversial critical strategies of “distant reading” and “surface reading” in the reception history of Gertrude Stein, an author whose work was frequently declared “unreadable.” I argue that an early twentieth-century history of ...
Cecire, Natalia
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Lumières transversales. Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan et le prisme de l’antiphilosophie

Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises
The name of Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709-1784) has rarely emerged from oblivion. And yet, this anti-modern, anti-Enlightenment spirit, is not without interest. An enemy of the philosophers, Lefranc was not, however, an enemy of knowledge.
Pierino Gallo
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Myth, Land, and History in the Poetry of James Clarence Mangan and Ernest Jones [PDF]

, 2015
This essay discusses poetry associated with Irish nationalism and Chartism. Chartism’s eventual de facto leader, Ernest Jones, was an admired and prolific poet; as Irish poets including James Clarence Mangan were helping to forge a new Irish cultural ...
Rennie, Simon
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Samuel Ben Yehudah Halevi: Exile and Redemption

Medievalia, 2020
In medieval poetry of the Spanish Jews, both sacred and profane, late nostalgia for a lost and saved by the tongue homeland. She is his firmer ground, which can restore from the wreck of a hostile situation the fullness of collective memory.
Armando López Castro
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