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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Anagogy"”.
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Assembling the Ineffable in Kurt Schwitters’ Architectural Models
… form and invisible content was described as "anagogy." However, unlike this Christian conception of the invisible that was transcendental and a priori, the anagogical Merz interpretation seeks to find the invisible within the visible through the active imagination of found materials assembled …
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A jungle of shadows : interpenetrations of the anagogical and the grotesque in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor
… serves as a starting point for configuring anagogy. I argue that to address a modern audience unfamiliar with, or unsympathetic towards, traditional Christian imagery, O'Connor enlarged her view of the anagogical mode to incorporate elements of the grotesque. In Chapter Two, I explore the …
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The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Ambrose of Milan
This study investigates the concept of light in the early Jewish-Christian exegesis of the biblical creation narrative (Gen. 1, so-called ‘hexaemeron’). The study argues that the early hexaemeral exegetes theorised light from a dual perspective, both physical and metaphysical. The physical exegesis …