Kerilyn Harkaway‐Krieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerilyn Harkaway‐Krieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Harkaway‐Krieger |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEGER K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gordon College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5270-7214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“And most semely for to be”
Both Julian of Norwich and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing use the Middle English term semely to navigate moments of tension surrounding the ability of material signs to convey divine truth. The authors treat a variety of signs, some linguistic, some not, all of which require interpretation to be properly understood. The wide variety of such material signs is captured in the authors' use of the Middle English terms goostly and bodily to iden…
Mysticism and Materiality
Drawing on Elliot Wolfson’s recent analysis of dreams and language, this essay demonstrates that metaphor is the linguistic site of the phenomenon that we call “mysticism.” Through repeated deployments of its central metaphor, the Middle English poem Pearl highlights the paradox that lies at the heart of every metaphor: the simultaneous and irreducible coexistence of similarity and difference. Focusing on metaphor in the poem also demonstrates th…
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Mysticism and Materiality
Drawing on Elliot Wolfson’s recent analysis of dreams and language, this essay demonstrates that metaphor is the linguistic site of the phenomenon that we call “mysticism.” Through repeated deployments of its central metaphor, the Middle English poem Pearl highlights the paradox that lies at the heart of every metaphor: the simultaneous and irreducible coexistence of similarity and difference. Focusing on metaphor in the poem also demonstrates th…
“And most semely for to be”
Both Julian of Norwich and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing use the Middle English term semely to navigate moments of tension surrounding the ability of material signs to convey divine truth. The authors treat a variety of signs, some linguistic, some not, all of which require interpretation to be properly understood. The wide variety of such material signs is captured in the authors' use of the Middle English terms goostly and bodily to iden…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Analogy (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Embodied cognition (1 work)