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The Mystic Fable, Volume Two

This chapter is in the book The Mystic Fable, Volume Two

© 2019 University of Chicago Press

© 2019 University of Chicago Press

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
Presentation ix
Mystic Historicities 1
Chapter One The Look: Nicholas of Cusa 23
Chapter Two The Poem and Its Prose 71
Chapter Three Shards of Speech 88
Chapter Four Uses of Tradition 98
Chapter Five Absolute Reading 120
Chapter Six Stories of Passions 135
Chapter Seven The Experimental Science of Madness 144
Chapter Eight Angelic Speech 161
Chapter Nine Biblical Erudition 181
Chapter Ten The Strange Secret: Pascal 194
The Opera of Speech: Glossolalias 212
Notes 227
Index of Names 283

https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226209272-toc

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
Presentation ix
Mystic Historicities 1
Chapter One The Look: Nicholas of Cusa 23
Chapter Two The Poem and Its Prose 71
Chapter Three Shards of Speech 88
Chapter Four Uses of Tradition 98
Chapter Five Absolute Reading 120
Chapter Six Stories of Passions 135
Chapter Seven The Experimental Science of Madness 144
Chapter Eight Angelic Speech 161
Chapter Nine Biblical Erudition 181
Chapter Ten The Strange Secret: Pascal 194
The Opera of Speech: Glossolalias 212
Notes 227
Index of Names 283

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