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... present and from the historical to the verbal . We realize that conver- sion involves the same activity . It is a turning back which reconstructs the past into a new present . In the case of the above quotation this conversion , this ...
... present and from the historical to the verbal . We realize that conver- sion involves the same activity . It is a turning back which reconstructs the past into a new present . In the case of the above quotation this conversion , this ...
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... present in the Confessions where references to the movement toward salvation are frequently made through a language that expresses this salutary action as a simultaneous forward and backward move- ment : The path that leads away from ...
... present in the Confessions where references to the movement toward salvation are frequently made through a language that expresses this salutary action as a simultaneous forward and backward move- ment : The path that leads away from ...
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... present . However , this is exactly the opposite of retrospective interpretation , which must look back in order to understand one's present position and see the fulfillment which the future holds . It is interesting to note that none ...
... present . However , this is exactly the opposite of retrospective interpretation , which must look back in order to understand one's present position and see the fulfillment which the future holds . It is interesting to note that none ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Misreadings in Inferno XX and Purgatorio XXI | 14 |
History to Narrative | 31 |
Copyright | |
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