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... garden and Eve's body is associated with the garden itself , is frequently employed , and this Edenic imagery modulates to " a garden enclosed , a fountain sealed " which is the body of the bride in the Song of Songs . Thus in a ...
... garden and Eve's body is associated with the garden itself , is frequently employed , and this Edenic imagery modulates to " a garden enclosed , a fountain sealed " which is the body of the bride in the Song of Songs . Thus in a ...
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... garden to give birth . I know very few of his books . But is it not a sculpturesque and simple theme , worthy of the ... garden , like that of a house . He is lying in a niche of the garden wall ( and here the association with the ...
... garden to give birth . I know very few of his books . But is it not a sculpturesque and simple theme , worthy of the ... garden , like that of a house . He is lying in a niche of the garden wall ( and here the association with the ...
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... garden of Isabel's consciousness contains " a suggestion of perfume and murmuring boughs , " nevertheless its " lengthening vistas " are a far cry from the lush erotic garden imagery of the Song , with its pomegranates and all manner of ...
... garden of Isabel's consciousness contains " a suggestion of perfume and murmuring boughs , " nevertheless its " lengthening vistas " are a far cry from the lush erotic garden imagery of the Song , with its pomegranates and all manner of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Tradition and Style of Biblical Wisdom Literature | 19 |
Parody and Authority in the Pardoners Tale | 43 |
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