...This chapter shows that Isaac derives his conceptual framework for the concept of ecstasy, along with the technical terms wonder and astonishment, from sources that were originally written in Syriac. In particular, both Ephrem and John the Solitary situate wonder and astonishment within...

...This chapter shows that Isaac derives specific definitions for the ecstatic experience of wonder and astonishment from Syriac translations of two sources that were originally written in Greek: Pseudo-Dionysius’s Mystical Theology and a series of Evagrian texts. The first section...

..., it is perhaps not superfluous to recall that at the origin of all philosophy, all love of wisdom, lies the moment of thaumazein, the feeling of astonishment and wonder that gives rise to questioning and reflection. Taking its cue from Bertolt Brecht’s concept of “crude thinking...

...This chapter traces the emergence of classical Hollywood cinema from the earlier practices often called the cinema of attractions. The chapter argues that the cinema of attractions attracted viewers due to the astonishment of seeing lifelike movement. Although classical cinema continues to tap...

...0 27 05 2004 In a recent article, the critic Edna Longley recalls a seminar she gave for some graduate students in Chicago in 1986. She remarks, evidently with some astonishment, that they ‘were amazed to learn that Frost (who?) had inspired Heaney and Muldoon in differently fruitful ways’. She...

...0 18 11 1993 An acquaintance who makes his home in the humanities expressed astonishment when he heard me use the phrase that titles my Prologue, “the science and humanity of regret.” The humanity of regret he understood. But science of regret?What could that possibly mean?he asked. The answer...

... and streets, how many works of art, marvellous to behold. marvellous Istanbul astonishment Eastern Christendom This content is only available as a PDF. ...

... that underlying the rhetoric of transcendence or the love of nature in Wordsworth's poetry is a more fundamental and original insight: the poet is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities or significance, but rather that it simply exists. He recognizes “our widest commonality...

... of light on a pond. Rather than standing above to judge, the perceiver is drawn into the ordinary scene. Tracing echoes of that initial exclamation throughout the novel, the chapter argues that at such moments of ineloquent astonishment, the Proustian beholder enjoys the world in its commonplace...

...This chapter examines occult practices in terms of the metaphysical pleasures they provide by focusing on the domain of leisure and play. It first considers metaphysical pleasure arising from wonder and astonishment, with particular emphasis on how these emotions, typically known through...

... of his most striking phrases of astonishment. Finally, it explores two hallmarks of Wordsworth's poetic originality: the anecdote of ordinary experience and the representation of subjective states of feeling, or what Wordsworth called “moods of my own mind.” Alighieri Dante Coleridge Samuel Taylor...

...This chapter examines the philosophical concept of wonder. Wonder has two senses. For one, it can suggest marvel or awe, the kind one might experience in astonishment or worship. But for another, it can mean puzzlement or logical perplexity. From a philosophical viewpoint, it is tempting...

...This chapter examines Isaac’s synthetic account of wonder and astonishment, which makes use of all the source material discussed in the previous three chapters. According to Isaac, the human soul is capable of processing material sensations with temporal reasoning, but it cannot process spiritual...

... they will begin again the monotony of work or the vagrancy of unemployment. The world remains unchanged when the young seamstress leaves the Saint-Simonian preaching session, to which she had gone ‘to find a bit of droll amusement’ and from which she returned ‘filled with admiration and astonishment...

... a man’s fist could pass. To general astonishment the victim did not die, but because he was not strong enough to work, the authorities at the trading post, unwilling to support an invalid, resolved to send him home to Canada. Beaumont doubted whether St Martin would survive the journey of 2,000 miles...

...0 07 03 1991 “Goon news at last, Dora Going out into the world is like learning to swim. They say that if you put an egg at the bottom of the water and try to get down to it you will be surprised to find how difficult it will be. Now, I have been letting myself go, and to my astonishment I have...

...0 02 05 2004 The immediate, general reaction as the facts of what happened on Sept. 11 became known was one of utter astonishment. Most people in the United States and more generally in the Western world find it impossible to understand the motives and purposes that drove the perpetrators...

... of, that I stood lost between astonishment and admiration. I had heard talk of the glorious deeds of our admirals and sailors, of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and of all those memorable combats, that good and true Englishmen never fail to relate to their children about a hundred times a year. The brave...

...0 26 08 1999 It is a source of continuing astonishment for me that such a small percentage of even my soundest opinions command widespread assent. Indeed, my only source of solace in this is the knowledge that most others experience life in similar ways and thus must confront daily...

... for surprise; that he is interested not only in the narrative mechanism of surprise but also its rhetoric; and that in representing moments of astonishment, Fielding nostalgically harks back to the instantaneity of theatrical spectacle, even as he develops techniques that anticipate the narrative innovations...