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... sexuality of necessity demands a pair with a difference , then this original pair is understood to have the maximum of identity with the minimum of difference ; but of this they are not yet aware . -- -- The awareness of sexual ...
... sexuality of necessity demands a pair with a difference , then this original pair is understood to have the maximum of identity with the minimum of difference ; but of this they are not yet aware . -- -- The awareness of sexual ...
Page 64
... sexual than the passage itself but this is almost to be expected since the sexual metaphor has an unmistakably spiritual reference in the meditation , whereas a parallel stress of the sexual in the translation of Canticles might have ...
... sexual than the passage itself but this is almost to be expected since the sexual metaphor has an unmistakably spiritual reference in the meditation , whereas a parallel stress of the sexual in the translation of Canticles might have ...
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... Sexual roles are irrelevant to spiritual readings of their significance . Human sexuality is a metaphor for something beyond itself and as such the most passionate appeals to sexual longing and " ardent Loue " are meant to indicate the ...
... Sexual roles are irrelevant to spiritual readings of their significance . Human sexuality is a metaphor for something beyond itself and as such the most passionate appeals to sexual longing and " ardent Loue " are meant to indicate the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Tradition and Style of Biblical Wisdom Literature | 19 |
Parody and Authority in the Pardoners Tale | 43 |
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