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Vol. I:Nous ne pouvons connaître les autres hommes que par leurs gestes, leurs paroles et leurs actes. Depuis deux siècles, le roman ne s'en est plus satisfait, et s'est voué, avec une intensité toujours croissante, à nous montrer la conscience au grand jour. Ce qu'elle a de plu…
""The strength of Empire," wrote Ben Jonson, "is in religion." In Reforming Empire, Christopher Hodgkins takes Jonson's dictum as his point of departure, showing how for more than four centuries the Protestant imagination gave the British Empire its main paradigms for dominion a…
""The strength of Empire," wrote Ben Jonson, "is in religion." In Reforming Empire, Christopher Hodgkins takes Jonson's dictum as his point of departure, showing how for more than four centuries the Protestant imagination gave the British Empire its main paradigms for dominion a…
Conscience and the composition of Piers Plowman
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"Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland's Piers Plowman. Previous critical accounts of Conscience either focus on discussions of the faculty conscience in scholastic discourse, or …
"Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan see the conscience as only partly theirs, only partly under their control. Of course, as theologians said, it ought to be a simple syllogism, comparing actions to God's law, and giving judgement, in a joint procedure of the soul and its maker. Inevit…
The author draws on theology, poetics, and rhetoric in detailed readings of the works of Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan to show that these poets seen the conscience as part theirs, part God's, and responded uncomfortably to failures in its workings.
"Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan see the conscience as only partly theirs, only partly under their control. Of course, as theologians said, it ought to be a simple syllogism, comparing actions to God's law, and giving judgement, in a joint procedure of the soul and its maker. Inevit…
The author draws on theology, poetics, and rhetoric in detailed readings of the works of Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan to show that these poets seen the conscience as part theirs, part God's, and responded uncomfortably to failures in its workings.