The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... speak " [ Inf . ( 2.72 ] ) . She means more than that her love for Dante has made her speak to Vergil in this instance . Speech is a function of desire in a more general way as well , because we speak what we lack , through speech we ...
... speak " [ Inf . ( 2.72 ] ) . She means more than that her love for Dante has made her speak to Vergil in this instance . Speech is a function of desire in a more general way as well , because we speak what we lack , through speech we ...
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... speak , and that as children we are good even though we have not yet learned to speak . 36 The harder but more interesting sense of Beatrice's words is that we go astray because we learn to speak . It is language itself that emerges ...
... speak , and that as children we are good even though we have not yet learned to speak . 36 The harder but more interesting sense of Beatrice's words is that we go astray because we learn to speak . It is language itself that emerges ...
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... speak in Paradise Lost , the phrase acquires consid- erable resonance . Eve's own tongue was by no means made to speak the praises she will shortly utter ( and is already beginning to utter ) ; in uttering those praises she will add one ...
... speak in Paradise Lost , the phrase acquires consid- erable resonance . Eve's own tongue was by no means made to speak the praises she will shortly utter ( and is already beginning to utter ) ; in uttering those praises she will add one ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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