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... accounts in which such wide-ranging figures as the traditionist Said b. Jubayr (d. ca. 95/713).... The recitation of the Quran as divine speech (kalam/logos) passing through the believer suggest... there are attestations in pre-Islamic poetry, al-Suyuti records Ibn Mas'ud and others ascribing...
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Pritchard reviews THE BBC TALKS OF E. M. FORSTER 1920-1960 edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes and Elizabeth MacLeod and THE CREATOR AS CRITIC AND OTHER WRITING BY E. M. FORSTER edited by Jeffrey M. Heath.
...Does poetry play any part in your life? In my life it doesn't.... to Coleridge, the central creator/critic figures Forster deals with are Wordsworth, Henry James, Jo...To realms beyond the power of speech. Buttons are flying, shirts are out,. The reach-me...
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... problem-solving potential in the speeches of the US, British, and French leaders, the exampl... resolution rhetoric of the classic figures mentioned by name above and then take another look... ever since Aristotle's classic division of poetry into its species--epic, tragedy, and comedy--these...
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In writing philosophy similarly, Levinas not only opens his thought to future readers but indicates that his thought stems from a moment not fully his own, an untotalizable moment where he did not know exactly what to expect. [...] although creative moments in art or philosophy may seem self-absorbed they can be taken to be ethical in Levinas's sense: the writer abandons past thoughts and habits, and opens herself to the unknown.
...These "propositions" resemble poetry at times, as they seem to dance around any straigh...It is not a metaphor as the figure of speech where one thing is called by the name of a second ..., it should be noted that other major figures in the history of philosophy have claimed a broadl...
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[...] a general summary hardly does justice to the range of topics Barfield touches on in Saving the Appearances, among tiiem language, literature, science, theology, and art, or to the new perspectives that he brings to bear on mem, but it does highlight the book's critical concerns: the nature of human consciousness, its relationship to the phenomenal world, and the historical changes that relationship has undergone. Saving the Appearances may in fact be the most representative and comprehensive expression of Barfield's lifelong dedication to the theme of mind and nature.3 One of the more provocative results of his outline of the history of consciousness in the West is his assertion that the Romantic movement of the eighteenth and nineteentii centuries never came to maturity because ...
... of history" and that "Language is fossil poetry" (457), the latter statement suggesting that langu... encountered one of those black and white figures designed to appear as two different forms or outli..., this notion of inspired and creative speech is both dope and reality. To awaken and begin to e...
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[...] many critics read the characterization of the city as a reflection of the period's economic history: the increasing globalization of the national economy with respect to the Pacific Rim, especially LA, and the widespread "Yellow Peril" fear of a Japanese corporate invasion. In history books, he's the kind of cop who used to call black men 'niggers.' This exchange establishes Bryant and Deckard as stock figures of twentieth-century Civil Rights narratives: the Southern redneck cop and the cynical but nonracist white one. [...] by 1992, the film has excised all of its direct references to black people despite its reliance on traditional African American themes.
..., being the only character who recites poetry. Just before he kills Chew (James Hong), the elder..., calmly delivers what amounts to a death speech. The scene is quiet so that the viewer can hear th...
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...To restore to those figures--not just the flaneur but his fellow pedestrians a... of walking is to the urban system what the speech act is to language.." Selecting and enunciating wo... he proposed an analogy between walking and poetry. He pointed out that "every walk is unreproducible...
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....), is certainly one of the most important figures in Chinese intellectual history. Given his outstan... paragraphs records a piece of direct speech that is expressly attributed to him. There are ind... she would order blind musicians to chant poetry [or: the Poems] and talk of correct things (?). Th...
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Assimilation through adoption is represented as a betrayal of one's race and a shirking of one's duty toward one's people.17 If the beliefs of both pro- and antislavery writers converged at the idea that whites were responsible for blacks' care, manifested either as paternalism in slavery or the liberal tradition in abolitionism, Harper's separatist solution rejects the model of care/dependence entirely and advocates blacks' independence.
... the 1850s with her passionate antislavery poetry; the end of the war saw Harper publishing anew. Bu... person at least once when Child attended a speech given by Harper. Carolyn L. Karcher notes that Har... Romance, in which an interracial adoption figures centrally and whose main characters take their nam...
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... see them as they see mortals, as comical figures in an endless spectacle. Gods can't die, and their... puzzling figure: "Thersites of the endless speech," who "knew within his head many words, but disord...Not even the exigencies of oral poetry explain why or how Thersites concludes his speech,...