ELH., Volume 74Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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Page 154
... language whose remains are like motes in the eye of God . 25 As such , the eruption of real language records the undecaying difference of temporal inscription and interrupts the bracketing of difference effected by the short - circuit ...
... language whose remains are like motes in the eye of God . 25 As such , the eruption of real language records the undecaying difference of temporal inscription and interrupts the bracketing of difference effected by the short - circuit ...
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... language by which humanity is defined , such as deaf mutes , the mentally deficient , and “ wild ” children nurtured by forest animals . 12 At first considered as a hybrid Other in Lilliput , Brobdingnag , and Laputa , Gulliver is ...
... language by which humanity is defined , such as deaf mutes , the mentally deficient , and “ wild ” children nurtured by forest animals . 12 At first considered as a hybrid Other in Lilliput , Brobdingnag , and Laputa , Gulliver is ...
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... language and the break that makes language possible , then to speak or write truthfully is to accept that limit : one only speaks of what one knows or sees , a constant and undying gesturing toward verisimilitude ; anything else is only ...
... language and the break that makes language possible , then to speak or write truthfully is to accept that limit : one only speaks of what one knows or sees , a constant and undying gesturing toward verisimilitude ; anything else is only ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
Space and Place in Paradise Lost | 27 |
Tainted Love and Romantic Literary Celebrity | 59 |
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