... in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Shelley’s Hellas to explore the interplay between feeling (the feeling of being blocked, for instance) and feeling’s absence. Works Cited Cheeke Stephen . “ Wrong-Footed by Genre: Shelley’s Hellas .” Romanticism 2 ( 1996 ): 204 – 19 . Curran Stuart...

... of sleight of hand,” through an analysis of impassivity. In “Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas ,” he begins by tracing the etymologies of impasse and impassive . Although the two words are false cognates, McGrath exploits the pun to explore how the absence of pain and feeling in John Milton’s...

...), the final stanzas of the work—written in Hellenic amphibrachs—glorify the hero’s battle for “freedom” ( svoboda ) and “Hellas” ( Ellada ): Но брань за свободу, за веру, за честь В Элладе его пламенеет, И слава воскресла, и вспыхнула месть,— Кровавое зарево рдеет. Он первый на звуки свободных мечей...

...,/ and those in Media, and Persia, and all the rest. (Collected Poems 127) —that is, “all the rest” of the Greek diaspora. Capturing the tensions of the Greeks in the periphery of Hellas, Cavafy places this peripheral diaspora at the heart of Hellenism and identifi es hybridity as its ultimate feature...

... the German dream of the Odyssey of the homebound spirit, which the river draws East towards the sea, “mingling it with other cultures in countless hybrid metamorphoses” (18), to Hölderlin’s Danubian nóstos 5 towards days of summer and “the land of the sun, Hella and the Caucasus” (385) —describe...