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From:James Dickey Review (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAir is not air, but fire. It is essentially fire. No one has ever actually seen an object, or anything in nature, or another person with the sense of inexplicable values, the charge of fathomless significance, that...
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From:Studies in Romanticism (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, AIDS TO REFLECTION MAY HAVE BEEN Coleridge's most influential work of prose. On both sides of the Atlantic, Aids's psychology of "Reason" (the "source and substance of truths above sense") and...
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From:James Dickey Review (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedYou need to remember that the Alnilam protagonist is not so much ahuman as superhuman, or perhaps ahuman and superhuman, without attempting to be so. And it is a natural condition. He does not calculate, he merely is....
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From: Parnassus: Poetry in Review[(essay date Spring/Summer 1974) In the excerpt below, Middlebrook traces Ginsberg's development as a poet from his earliest verse to The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965- 1971 (1973).] Some of the poems in...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5996)On the Letters page a few weeks ago, a reader recommended John le Carre for our inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. The award is for authors who refuse to be shortlisted, longlisted or in any way nominated for a literary...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSamuel Beckett borrowed aphorisms from 17th- and 18th-century writers such Swift, Pope, Voltaire and Chamfort to depict familiar situations in 'taut, compressed sentences.' However, his aphorisms contained a freshness of...
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From: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Dowden argues that the apparently “slapdash” structure of Wilhelm Meister’s Travels is in fact a deliberate authorial attempt to shift interpretive responsibility to the reader....
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From:West Virginia University Philological Papers (Vol. 54) Peer-ReviewedTranslation and commentary by John Solt Preface When I heard about a festschrift in the works for Armand Singer, I was delighted but uneasy. What could I possibly offer that could meaningfully honor such an...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 104, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe aesthetic and rhetorical strategies of the Old English gnomic poems remain somewhat mysterious to modern readers, in large part because the genre is so foreign to our experience. Heroic poetry like Beowulf or The...
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From:Parergon (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI: Introduction In Of Reformation (1641) Milton lamented that, 'there is no art that hath bin more canker'd in her principles, more soyl'd and slubber'd with aphorising pedantry than the art of policie'. (1) Milton...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 39, Issue 4)Our domestic animals have given us such terms as buy a pig in a poke, let the cat out of the bag, and get one's goat. Can you (doggedly) work on the following expressions involving Man's Best Friend, some in the slang...
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From: German Quarterly[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Amrine suggests that, despite appearances to the contrary, Goethe actively worked to endow the Wilhelm Meister’s Travels with an ideal “Romance form” that could capture...
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From:James Dickey Review (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe steel phase will be the one the rest of humanity must reckon with, for the aircraft, having known it, will flock to us, and so will any other form of machinery which can understand the primacy of the human trance....
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From:French Forum (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe heavy use of the literary portrait (1) in Moliere's Le Misanthrope (1666) has been the subject of a considerable amount of critical attention, (2) but the aphorism's (3) frequent appearance in this much-studied play...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay identifies an analogy between Kristen Linklater's "actor's quartet" and Aristotle's conception of community constructed around his understanding of a polis. Aristotle and Linklater suggest a model of...
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From:EHumanista (Vol. 34) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: A study of a corpus of jokes and sayings whose figures are blind persons who say goodbye with expressions such as "see you soon", or who say ironic puns related to the sense of sight. The best known versions...
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From: Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Melhem discusses Randall's poetry and involvement with Broadside Press. A slightly different version of this essay appeared in Black American Literature Forum in 1983 under the...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 37, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDe tous les genres litteraires dans lesquels Godard aura pulse les "phrases" dont il constelle ses films, il n'est sans doute pas du tout etonnant de trouver l'aphorisme, tant celui-ci se prete tout particulierement a...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe entry in Johnson's Dictionary for "allegory" reads, "A figurative discourse, in which something other is intended, than is contained in the words literally taken; as, wealth is the daughter of diligence, and the...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 43, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedThe following essay is a work of Recombinant Theory. The essay remixes the work of Fred Wah, rearranging his critical and poetic writing in new patterns, producing original aphorisms that are directly indebted to Fred's...