... the particular features of the diction of prophetic poetry, as Brown conceives it, and how it relates to the expressive substance of his own diction in the innovative critical texts he produced. The diction of Brown's own “prophetic” texts can be at once libertine and bossy, silly and imposing, initiatory...

... been and remain a formidable rhetorical influence on Chinese critical discourse. In reading this aspiration as symptomatically expressed in diction and style, I refer to the effects of certitude in present-day Chinese critical discourse, and do so to highlight a striking feature of Chinese linguistic...

...Norman O. Brown Abstract This lecture, a tribute to the Muses, was delivered by Norman O. Brown for his class of 1971, “To Greet the Return of the Gods.” It is spoken with the preacher's rhythmic diction and charmed hieratic voice, and is transcribed here to include Brown's intentional pauses...

... values.” The striking informality of Ronell’s tone and diction almost overwhelms the passage at first. We’re not used to hearing a voice as prominently placed (and annoyed) as this in academic prose, let alone in the pages of PMLA. But the raw, direct tone quickly gives way as the voice we’re...

... of a piece, is that they are plain rather than “poetical”—in the tradition of William Carlos Williams, for whom poetry should be rooted in the American idiom rather than in the traditional proso- dies and closed “poetic dictions” of literary history: That which is heard from the lips of those...

... replication of Stevens’s diction). “The room behind the room,” writes Lauterbach, Has lost its particularity, a tent In a field of tents. . David St. John, “Symphonie Tragique,” Wallace Stevens Journal 17, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 27–29. . Charles Tomlinson, “Suggestions...

... gave at Wesleyan on John Cage: Broken heaventalk, poetic diction that ocean in which the Apollonian ship capsizes (Brown 2005 : 87) Although it's Cage he places in the shipwreck here—a man who had embarked on a long voyage of acrostics in his own negotiation with broken heaventalk—Nobby saw...

... capitalism’s contra- dictions (33). Such contradictions expressed themselves overtly in the global crises of 2008, as in the transfer of responsibility from corporate bodies to taxpayers.5 In the cases of risky financial instruments in the United States and overleveraged developers in Ireland...

..., their automatic adhesion to attraction, glades of sparkle, birthday offerings, tears at graves, female visitants, house finch eating pear blossom, awestruck thoughts on planets, stars and moon— is it the modest size of poems, their nicely tuned endings, the diction and gestures they normally exclude...

... phrase”). Poetry and poetics, diction and theory, fiction and criticism are here inseparable (or even indistinct), as meaning and withdrawal of meaning, verse and prose, “magazine literature” or “ordinary talk” and “pure poetry,” conversational and propositional, high voltage and low voltage...

..., “On the Power of Mara Poetry” is just a grand assembly of words. . . . He was also fond of awkward sentences and archaic diction, in this he was influenced by Minbao. I have made a few changes here for the convenience of the typesetting and printing, but have left most...

... of the poem, what happens ‘‘now after the divine have built, is extraordinarily difficult to narrate at all. The epic narrative diction of the opening lines is succeeded not by the continuation of epic narration...

... trends— visible in our day in the swelling numbers of the academic precariat, which resonates with the neoliberal push for flexible labor. Finally, the Euromodern university also has suffered from a contra- diction in its simultaneous commitment to national goals and the strictures...

... The motive behind Propertius and Cathay is itself lost in the admiration for what both works, experiments or not, finally predicted. Propertius was silent preparation for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a work of extended social satire and literary parody that is Propertian in diction and tone (though its...

...-indulgence of the late years 100 boundary 2 / Spring 2002 of the decade represented a working through of the philosophical contra- dictions that enabled the cross-racial alliances of the earlier period.2 Ameri- can culture, to the extent that one can define and characterize such a unity, is itself...

... nonetheless benefit from such information. In this case, he asserts, it is “essential” to know the “poet is a woman” (266–67). Absent this knowledge, “we might well be made uncomfortable by the poem,” for what is “appropriate to a woman” in its tone and diction would “surely” make us “ill at ease...

.... He self-published the first ones, creating in each of them different and internally consistent mechanisms, such as chaos, density of diction, and the clash of multiple voices in the dangers of Asylums ’ institutions, Veil 's visual poetry, the fragmentary nature of the verses in Shade...

... to convey logos while still retaining phone is crucial to understand another aspect of the emperor’s speech, namely the “affective” significance of its monolingual, archaic expression, which borrowed words, phrases, diction, and syntax going back to seventh-century­ Japanese writing...

... archaeologically, as it were, so as to expose the sedimented myths and metaphors, making possible a more transparent objectivity and enlightenment. It becomes a question of philo- logical vigilance: consciousness, first of all, of the manifold if spectral historical energies slumbering in our diction...

... of nature as the warrant of in- duction in order to ground the judgment that applying the principle of causation and the methods of physical science to moral and social phenomena would yield ‘‘conditional pre- dictions’’ that were understandable as ‘‘social laws In this way, Mill and Comte and Mill...