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... object of what the author terms the erotics of disgust. Chughtai is perhaps most famous for her being tried for obscenity in 1942 for her most famous short story, “The Quilt” (“Lihaaf”), which narrates a young girl’s encounter with the erotic relationship of a middle-class Muslim woman and her female...

... of Coriolanus’s spitting out his words with disgust, as though they were foreign particles to be gotten rid of, also suggests an infection or con- 4 In his study of Coriolanus, Bertolt Brecht suggests that this stasis of character, this unchanging, unbuilding figure within the play, may have been entirely...

... that meant; he moved a silent index finger across his throat. ( Ibrahim 32–33 ; Ibrāhīm 31–32 ) The novel foreignizes the Iraqi dialect; the Egyptian narrator does not understand it. This emphasizes the ironic fact that the Soviet dorm’s atmosphere of generalized distrust and disgust does foster...

...: disgust, excretion, repulsion are all features of a “dérègelement de tous les sens.” Disruption is crucial to Mouth’s narrative. Like the audience, the woman finds herself suddenly “in the dark” and if not exactly . . . insentient . . . insentient . . . for she could still hear the buzzing . . . so...

... dojdzie before the scream reaches do jego wysokich uszu his tall ears wypoczywa w cieniu tego krzyku he reposes in its shadow wstrza˛sany dreszczem obrzydzenia with a shudder of disgust Apollo czy´sci swój instrument...

..., drawing us further into “the place where meaning collapses,” “the divisible, foldable, and catastrophic space” in which the outcast dwells (Powers 2, 8). If, as Kristeva suggests, fear and disgust best describe the reaction of the sub- ject upon encountering the abject—“fearfully it turns away...

... difficile d’un nouvel art romanesque.” ( Pour 23 ; We observe, day by day, the growing disgust felt by the most sensitive, when confronted by words with a visceral, figurative, or incantatory nature. While the optical, descriptive adjective, which is satisfied with measuring, locating, delimiting...

... no affinity to the actual adherents of Hasidism. Despite Kron’s feelings of disgust, however, he acknowledges his connection to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jewry. He recalls growing up in a Rus- sian-speaking assimilated Jewish household in Bobroisk, “on a quiet, beautiful street surrounded...

... into not-infrequently violent, disgust-filled meta-reflections on writing and literature, as well as (sometimes crude, sometimes lyrical and aphoristic) reflections on ontology. Only by doing drastic violence to Boris’s own words can the narrator salvage something like a conventional narrative. Le Sang du ciel thus...

... bit my fist in pain and disgust. He got back up. (Réjouis 244) Vieux-Chauvet is relentless in this description of a horrific sexual encounter. Rose later connects this sickening act with death itself: Pourtant, je me sentais comme purifiée. Lorsque j’en aurai fini avec cette torture, j’aurai...

... to imagine a serene balcony a few steps away, facing the west, and, below, marble and laurels and a garden whose various levels are duplicated in a rectangle of water. A woman has placed in a goblet a yellow rose. The man murmurs the inevitable lines that now, to tell the truth, already disgusted [ hastían...

... experiences or inclinations. In one of the earliest reviews, Valentim Magalhães called it “imundo” (filthy) and “ascoroso” (disgusting) because, accord- ing to him, it dealt with “um ramo de pornografia até hoje inédito por inabordável, por antinatural, por ignóbil” (Notícia, 19 Nov. 1895, qtd. in Howes...

... fellows, for lack of adequate means of execution, produced only derisory monsters . . . Their automata deserve a place in the most hideous waxworks museum because they are disgusting objects . . . These mannequins are nothing, if not an outrageous caricature of our species. And that is what the first...

... and disgusted. He scours the room in search of additional interlopers and lovers, declaring “och, ik voel d’onlesselijke brandt/ Uws wulpze mins” (B8r; Oh, I feel the unquenchable fire of your lecherous lust!) and castigates Plancina: “Eerlooze keizersboel, de naam van moeder is/ Verwaarloost door uw...

... discusses, our ability to feel happi- ness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (directly and vicariously) is so powerful that such emotions can override reasoning. For instance, if we are about to be attacked, we don’t contemplate running we simply run, and we experience this same process when watch...

... discusses, our ability to feel happi- ness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (directly and vicariously) is so powerful that such emotions can override reasoning. For instance, if we are about to be attacked, we don’t contemplate running we simply run, and we experience this same process when watch...

... with a given film, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/358 fictional narrative, or musical composition. As Hogan discusses, our ability to feel happi- ness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (directly and vicariously) is so powerful that such emotions can override reasoning. For instance, if we are about...

... discusses, our ability to feel happi- ness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (directly and vicariously) is so powerful that such emotions can override reasoning. For instance, if we are about to be attacked, we don’t contemplate running we simply run, and we experience this same process when watch...

... with a given film, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/358 fictional narrative, or musical composition. As Hogan discusses, our ability to feel happi- ness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (directly and vicariously) is so powerful that such emotions can override reasoning. For instance, if we are about...

... man — and recoils from him in fear and disgust. The poem’s “Byronic” narrative comes to an end, and the narrative leaps from 1709 to 1828. And yet, as I mentioned earlier, the last word in the poem belongs not to the imperial bard who glorifi es Peter’s legacy, but rather to the elegist who...