...Stefanie Heine This article examines how breathing pauses organize prose rhythm in ancient rhetoric and in modernist texts. In Virginia Woolf’s “Time Passes” and “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” as well as in a late chapter of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities , breath...

..., and Robert Musil that articulate what could be called the moment of no moment, and that thereby expose the untimely intersections that may come to pass through writing. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 Maurice Blanchot Robert Musil Friedrich Nietzsche eternal recurrence...

... . Paris: Gallimard, 1988 . 29 -38. Jacobus, Mary. Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's “Lyrical Ballads” (1798) . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976 . Meier, Harri. Die Onomasiologie der Dummheit: Romanische Etymologien . Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag, 1972 . Musil, Robert...

... with the texts of Derrida, she retraces the turns and detours through which Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, and Robert Musil confront the errancy, anachronism, and forgetfulness that recurrence entails. “There may be no getting beyond recurrence,” as Mendicino explains in her conclusion, “and no end...

... one, as we shall see —aiming to satisfy that never quenched synthetic ambition of epic derivation already proper to such masterpieces of lit- erary modernism as Joyce’s Ulysses, Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg, and Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenshaften. How this ambition manifests...

..., the anony- mous nation-state, defined not by its difference from, but by its similarity to, other states. The fictive nations of Africa and Latin America in works by Conrad, ness, Ellowendeeowen is on a level with Robert Musil’s Kakaphonia, which is not another Austria but merely another name...

... exclusively to his earlier, less accomplished novels, when Gillespie’s case would have been better served by engag- ing his mature novels. The discussion of modernist rewriting would have been greatly enriched by references to Derek Walcott and Charles Johnson. Irritatingly, von Musil (as much a leading...

... to Derek Walcott and Charles Johnson. Irritatingly, von Musil (as much a leading High-Modernist as any of Gillespie’s heroes) is hardly mentioned. Many a quotation out of Zauberberg would have benefited by reference to the brilliant observa- tions of his great contemporary, the Swiss essayist Max Picard...

... Gillespie’s case would have been better served by engag- ing his mature novels. The discussion of modernist rewriting would have been greatly enriched by references to Derek Walcott and Charles Johnson. Irritatingly, von Musil (as much a leading High-Modernist as any of Gillespie’s heroes) is hardly...

... exclusively to his earlier, less accomplished novels, when Gillespie’s case would have been better served by engag- ing his mature novels. The discussion of modernist rewriting would have been greatly enriched by references to Derek Walcott and Charles Johnson. Irritatingly, von Musil (as much a leading...

... exclusively to his earlier, less accomplished novels, when Gillespie’s case would have been better served by engag- ing his mature novels. The discussion of modernist rewriting would have been greatly enriched by references to Derek Walcott and Charles Johnson. Irritatingly, von Musil (as much a leading...