I n Borges’s “The Immortal,” the narrator’s chronological origin and spiritual symbiosis with Homer affect the written discourse by giving it features proper to oral communication. The narrator, by virtue of his immortality, exhibits the linguistic characteristics and the viewpoint endemic to the Homeric bard. His diachronic existence allows him to incorporate into the narrative a number of fea...

IN his poem 'Whispers of Immortality' Mr. T. S. Eliot places John Donne in the same category as the dramatist John Webster as a man who was 'much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin'. Superficially, the preoccupation with death ofboth authors suggests a common depressive disposition. Nevertheless, Donne wears his rue with a difference, and the melancholy he exhibits is as char...

The limits of Henriques' "overarching conceptions" approach to defining psychology is first tested by comparing and contrasting his conceptions to two burgeoning movements within psychology: qualitative research and spiritual therapy strategies. These movements were selected because they represent many other fragments of a fragmented psychology that could fall outside Henriques' disciplinary ma...