This paper explores the language of dream reports of Ptolemaios, katochos “recluse” in the Serapeum at Memphis in the 2nd cent. BCE, particularly focusing on the pattern regularly introducing the dream: it includes ἐνύπνιον (as the word for the dream), a predicate of visual perception, and οἴομαι, which marks the transition to the dream narration. As testified by a long-standing tradition of...
The article addresses the peculiarities of figural voice in consciousness representation and the disruptive effect that this voice has on our narratological readings of minds and of narrative transmission.Instead of taking the natural narrative as my starting point, I base my arguments on a diachronic reconsideration of figural voices in literary fiction.First, I will argue that the seeds of...
The discussion at hand involves the connected ideas of motion (harakat),origination (huduth), and perpetual creation (khalq jadid). These are subjects that hold a privileged place in the religious sciences and that have instigated human thinking to further inquiry from time immemorial.The present discussion is an investigation into the theory of “perpetual creation” as found in philosophy and...