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Introduction
Marguerite Porete was a heretic, or so it was said. Burnt alive in 1310 for writing a book about the love of God, she reportedly faced the brutality of her execution in a manner that echoed her beliefs — that ...
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Housed Exile
‘More sinn’d against than sinning’ — so King Lear surmises his station.1 Exiled within his own lands, the wayward monarch cries out against the ‘undivulged crimes/Unwhipp’d of justice’ (KL, Act III, sc ii) and ca...
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The Traumatic Sublime
‘Trauma’ comes to us from the Greek word for ‘wound’, indicating a serious injury not only to the body but also the psyche (the ancient concept of the self, encompassing the modern ideas of soul, self, and min...
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The differend and Beyond
Having now briefly examined the context of Lyotard’s work prior to the publication of The Differend, this chapter seeks to more thoroughly explore the book’s philosophical findings, particularly his concepts of t...
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Homer and Ondaatje
‘Homer makes us Hearers and Virgil leaves us Readers.’1 Yet if this is the case, as Pope’s preface to his translation of the Iliad would have us believe, what is it that Homer would have us listen to? Apart from ...
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Conclusion
Porete believes that the essence of the self is to be found in the exaltation of a subject’s free will. Ironically, while such rapturous autonomy is evident throughout her own poetics, such striking reflection...
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