Jordan Kirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 6604386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan Kirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirk |
| SIGNATURE | KIRK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Hideous Noise of Prayer
This essay is an account of the “litil worde of o silable” mentioned several times in The Cloud of Unknowing. Despite the fact that its utterance makes up a prayer whose practice is the work of unknowing itself, the “litil worde” has been given surprisingly little attention. My aim here is first of all to describe as accurately as possible the procedure of prayer taught in the Cloud, and secondly to suggest that this procedure can best be underst…
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The Hideous Noise of Prayer
This essay is an account of the “litil worde of o silable” mentioned several times in The Cloud of Unknowing. Despite the fact that its utterance makes up a prayer whose practice is the work of unknowing itself, the “litil worde” has been given surprisingly little attention. My aim here is first of all to describe as accurately as possible the procedure of prayer taught in the Cloud, and secondly to suggest that this procedure can best be underst…
Epistemology (1 work) · Grammar (1 work) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Medieval Literature and History (1 work) · Nonsense (1 work) · Nothing (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Prayer (1 work)