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SMITH'S HAUNTING ACCOUNT OF THE SUMMER OF '39
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THE DARK SUMMER -- An Intimate History of the Events That
Led to World War II, by Gene Smith. Macmillan, 314 pp.,
$22.50.
The 19th century stopped a few moments before 5 a.m., Sept. 1,
1939, along the German-Polish border. Truisms of the past dissolved
overnight: "The concept that government cabinets and army
leaderships should be composed of 'vons' and second sons of lords,
the hold of religion, the belief that a few nations clustered
around the Mediterranean basin should be the rulers of the world,
the concept that communism was the coming salvation -- these and a ...
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Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith, eds. Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650-1830: from Revolution to Revolution.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; ...vegetarian Thomas Tryon, who, along with Jakob Boehme and the Philadelphians, are argued...writes of religious dispute, and of Boehme, though his focus is on William...considers the transmission of ideas from Boehme to William Blake. Jane Shaw adds...
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Michael Losonsky. Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News
; ...thinking, as did such enthusiasts as John Webster and Jakob Boehme (and, despite appearances to the contrary, Henry...of clergy and the university curriculum, moves on to Jakob Boehme's quest for the divinely created language of nature...
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Julie Hirst. Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News
; ...and her writing, and he evidently introduced her to Jakob Boehme whose works were to occupy an immensely important place...book describe Jane Leade's peculiar transformation of Boehme by means of her own unique alchemical discourse and her...
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Ernst Benz. Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...continuation of the pious and mystical traditions of writers like Johannes Arndt, August Francke, Henry More, and perhaps Jakob Boehme. As Goodrick-Clarke points out in his introduction, important recent work, notably by Marsh Keith Schuchard and...
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Verwandlung und ubersetzung: metamorphosis, translation and the poetry of Nelly Sachs.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
; ...firmly rooted in the German Romantic tradition. She was influenced by the Catholic Middle Ages, German mysticism and Jakob Boehme, the 17th century thinker who believed that "God" was characterized by a balance of two extremes; light and dark...
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Christopher Middleton. Crypto-Topographia: Stories of Secret Places.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...seems, is heavy with allusion. The allusions are not all to places--they are personal as well: from Max Jacob to Jakob Boehme, and from Montesquieu to Marshall Ney, they range across centuries and through the pages of our cultural archive...
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Informatorium; Naturliche Auslegung von der Schopfung; Vom Ursprung aller Dinge; Viererlei Auslegung von der Schopfung.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...copies found should be confiscated. His works nonetheless continued to circulate, influencing the Lutheran mystic, Jakob Boehme. Weigel's writings on prayer, which were known to Johannes Arndt, helped to shape the Pietist emphasis on inner...
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Nelly Sachs: Neglected Nobelist
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Christologically tinted" Berlin home, the frail, impressionable Sachs developed an interest in mysticism, primarily that of Jakob Boehme, the 17th century theologian. In the thirties, after receiving two books by Martin Buber, she encountered Hassidism...
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Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...a new, postmarital relationship formed. Also in this period, thanks to Pordage she began to absorb the notions of Jakob Boehme, "Silesian theosopher," and the author investigates his ideas, which embraced "occult philosophy, Gnosticism...
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The performative basis of modern literary theory
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature
; ...as a set of conventional or arbitrary meanings imposed by us, but as what the seventeenth-century Lutheran thinker Jakob Boehme called a Naturspr-ache or "language of nature"' in which the essences or natures of things impose themselves on...
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