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... mechanism within the 1966 text of Despair that both relies on and undermines a Freudian reading. I identify a set of objects whose Freudian valence could easily mislead the unwary reader into taking them symbolically, thus overlooking their function as important clues to events in the novel. I also posit...

... education and comfort to people who crave housing, work, and books more than uniforms, guns, and tanks” (2). The complex emotional coupling of hope and despair, expressed by Jaspers and Girs, is, I will here argue, characteristic of cultural productions in the immediate aftermath of World War II...

...Julián Jiménez Heffernan Influential critics such as Jonathan Dollimore, Michael Hattaway, and Richard Wilson have identified a tendency in Marlowe's plays to arrest dramatic development in what appear to be surface expressions of an original impasse — of desire, despair, or failed authority...

... you may do, what, do what you may, And wisdom is early to despair: Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be done To keep at bay age and age’s evils, hoar hair, Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death’s worst, winding sheets, tombs and worms...

... foundations of inequality. 1 Through explicit confrontations with the contradictory legacies of post-socialist racism, Red Pill compels the reader to ponder how we might navigate our contemporary Zerzetsung without falling into either psychosis or despair. The fate of public discourse across...

... with existential despair generally; unlike Sartre’s Roquentin, who only incidentally inhabits “Bouville,” Seferis’s narrator is firmly grounded in the Greek landscape and the absence of, and hunger for, a Greek cultural tradition.10 In fact, it is from the starting point of that Greek cultural tradition...

..., but as a reliable and perfect friend” (“non à serviteur, mais à seur et parfaict amy,” 71), when Amadour’s wife dies, leaving him no plausible excuse for spending so much time with Floride. Sick with despair, Amadour takes to his bed and decides the time has come to risk everything in the hope of achieving...

... the teacher finds herself so exhausted “que l’aridité de son sort, soudain, lui apparut” (4; “that the sterility of her own existence sud- denly becomes apparent to her Even more strikingly, although Anne makes an agreeable show of despair at her son’s obstinence, she does so “joyeusement” (“happily...

... sustains me the mud I live on” (19). It is also a kind of blanket, the “warmth of primeval mud” (12). But the narrator quickly finds himself haunted by grim memory, the “rags of life in the light,” the despair of having lived (23). The primeval mud becomes muck billions of us crawling and shitting...

... their works with divertisse- ments. Instead, they prefer uncompromising final tableaux: Hercules in agony, falling on his pyre; Dido in despair, plunging Aeneas’s sword into her heart; Médée in triumph, reviewing the destruction she has wrought from her aerial vantage point...

... of her autobiography Delirium and Destiny. For Rog- ers, Zambrano’s autobiography intersects with Ortega’s project for a European Spain, Ocampo’s and Woolf’s feminist critiques, the optimism and despair of intellectuals during and after the Spanish Civil War, and the generation of ‘27’s bond...

... are as concerned about keeping the revelers inside the abbey as they are about keeping the Red Death out: “They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or frenzy from within” (136). The narrator asserts, presumably taking on the voice of Pros- pero himself...

... towards the welfare state and its representatives —here the Barker COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 182 novels are essential reading — its intellectuals express their own frustrations and disappointments in ways that approach despair, that are anarchic in their anomie. Robbins’s admirable critical...

...— not as a substitute for Israel but as an “ideal place,” a space that, unlike Herzl’s Altneuland, will allow for the existence of utopia. The exercise fails, and in Nevo’s work Israel remains the place in which “Everyone has doubts, everyone feels a quiet, dark despair, everyone practices avoidance from the first...

... vielleicht!” (19-22) Often at midnight trembling lips lamented,/That she whom I love, you remain invisible!/Often at midnight I reached out my trembling arm,/And embraced an image, ah yours perhaps! Questions follow, despairing of the lover’s invisibility: “Werd’ ich mein Auge zu dir einst, segnender...

... of a mania that occurs as a reaction to despair; on the contrary, “it leads the subject to a complete identification . . . with the very agency of the ideal,” and as such it “causes a third party to exist for and through an other” (206–07). This forgiveness, which the subject reaches through...

... and African American writers enables Brathwaite to explain how tidalectics is a Sisyphean idea that refuses to give in to lamentation or despair when “something is slowly—sometimes almost immediately—once again being eroded,” and bears a “responsibility . . . to start again. To pick up that burden of Sisyphus...

... of her autobiography Delirium and Destiny. For Rog- ers, Zambrano’s autobiography intersects with Ortega’s project for a European Spain, Ocampo’s and Woolf’s feminist critiques, the optimism and despair of intellectuals during and after the Spanish Civil War, and the generation of ‘27’s bond...

... across a gamut of political and theoretical posi- tions, might provisionally set aside comparison in pushing through to despair’s farther shore, that teeming region of exuberant plentitude called the blues. Taken as an ensemble of cultural practices centered on collective participation in music...

... to stay and simply letting the ship sail, Friday surprises Crusoe once again by paddling out to the ship and sailing away with the crew. Crusoe almost succumbs to despair, believing himself to be isolated once more. Luckily for Cru- soe, however, the ship’s abused Estonian cabin boy jumps ship...