Word: embeddedness
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“First of all, you have to think about religious traditions as cultural phenomenon embedded in context—social and political and literary and artistic,” says Professor Ali S. Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures and Associate Director of Prince...
In 1915, when a team of archaeologists from Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts cracked open a tomb in Deir-el-Bersha, Egypt, they found intricate coffins embedded within each other, 55 wooden boats—each distinctly crafted and painted—and beer. Lots of beer. Scattered...
This attitude perhaps provides us with a clearer image of what Rilke is doing intellectually; however this often obscures the emotional force of Rilke’s poems. In the third poem of Rilke’s sonnet sequence, “Sonnets to Orpheus,” he addresses...
In judging various translations, we as readers are put in unique positions of judging, and experiencing, different versions of the same poem. All poets offer truths that are pressing and immediate, and yet often our immediate understanding of poetry happens only when the poem’s aesthetic affects us...
Not unlike their 18th-century French counterparts, readers today face a large and growing pool of information, but I don’t see readers (if they can even be called that anymore) becoming more analytical as a result of the many recent developments in reading technology. If anything, these...