'A raid on the inarticulate'
Author : Karina Westermann
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Karina Westermann
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Deepak Chopra, MD
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1401969070
A book of poems by bestselling author Deepak Chopra that are deeply spiritual, heartfelt, and touch on topics like God, love, surrender, shadow, and peace. Poetry is the language of the soul, according to Deepak Chopra, and in RAID ON THE INARTICULATE, he shares a collection of poems that, in his words, can very elegantly show us the truth of paradox and ambiguity. Poetry can be a source of awakening and revelation, and the poems in this book focus on conundrums, existential dilemmas, and consciousness; they're about love, peace, the timelessness of the mind, freedom, surrender, God, and the journey to the self.
Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1556358229
John Dominic Crossan's In Parables demonstrated how Jesus's parables demolished an idolatry of time. In this book, he shows how the parables likewise preclude an idolatry of language. In a new, creative synthesis, Raid on the Articulate juxtaposes the sayings and parables of Jesus with the works of modern Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges to reveal fresh interpretations. Crossan locates both men as literary iconoclasts, parablers who can evoke for us the other side of silence. The gift they bring is cosmic eschatology, the ability to stand on the brink of nonsense and absurdity and not be dizzy. The discussion begins with Comedy and Transcendence, a comedy too deep for laughter. Language is seen most openly and acknowledged most freely as structured play, opening the narrow gate to transcendence. This precludes language being mistaken for the gate itself. This in turn raises the question of Form and Parody. As Crossan writes, Why mock the craftsman skilled in silver and gold and not mock the artisan skilled in form and genre? What if the aniconic God became trapped in icons made of language? In Jesus we find the most magisterial warning against graven words and encapsulation of God in case law, proverb, or beatitude. When Jesus says, Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it he presents a paradox insoluble by faith in language. Borges performs a similar function in literature when he inserts footnotes referring to nonexistent books. Both are arguing against the idolatry of imprisoning reality in the words that point to it. Parable and Paradox makes the case for parable as paradox formed into story. It is in this context that Jesus and Borges must be understood. Analyzing many of Jesus's parables, especially The Good Samaritan, and comparing them structurally to Borges's work, Crossan sees them as single or double reversals of their audiences most profound expectations. It is these that lend them both their power and their paradox. Raid on the Articulate concludes with considerations of the plasticity of time in Jesus and Borges and what, finally, we can say about them as men from their fragile and aphoristic art. Emphasizing both biblical and literary materials, John Dominic Crossan achieves a deepened understanding of New Testament texts and forms, an understanding possible only when the unique literary aspect of Jesus's sayings is acknowledged.
Author : Gail Barbara Griffin
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Cleo McNelly Kearns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 1987-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521324397
An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.
Author : Mohamed Mansouri
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1989
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ISBN : 9789973900029
Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0547539703
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
Author : Elizabeth Witwer
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415159482
T.S. Elliot (1888-1965). Writings include: Prufrock and other Observations, Poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Author : Janet Kim Ha
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2007
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