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..., 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...

... and attached to a pole.4 (104–05) Exotic and colorful, the parrot is not perhaps an obvious signifier of the state of boredom. Read in the light of Benjamin’s larger thesis, however —​and, in particu- lar, his distinctive understanding of the “magic circle” of eternal recurrence and its structuring...

... anything like a common world. If the first danger leads to dubious calls for renewal—what Auden denounces as “a new Constantinism” 2— the second tends to make every appearance into a novum, the ironic result of which is a doctrine of eternal recurrence. Arendt’s and Auden’s acute awareness...

.... 2010. < http://www.beardofbees.com >. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . Dir. Michel Condry. Focus Features, 2004 . Film. Foster, Thomas. The Souls of Cyberfolk. Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory . Minneapolis: u of Minnesota P, 2005 . Print. Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure...

... as to experience something other. In its metaphysical sense, transcendence is ordinarily contrasted to immanence, or the manifestation of the sacred in, and inseparable from, the physical, perceptible world of change and lived experience. snow of Eternity / falls slowly, erasing the suns?” (181–83, 186–88...

... . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971 . ____. The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980 . ____. The Educated Imagination . Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1963 . ____. The Eternal Act of Creation: Essasy, 1979-1990 Northrop Frye...

... of the snake metaphor clearly establish a decisive connectedness in Nietzsche’s thought: the ontology of becoming, the eternal recurrence, the concept of the tragic, the take on Socratism. If it were pos- sible to comprehend the three suggested readings in their unity, a governing principle of this think...

... element of these crosscurrents and, as such, it shapes their approach to the sea in their work. Moreover, the sea’s infinity, alongside the eternal presence of myth, prompts poets from these islands to consider how maritime tropes resonate with their contemporary moment and beyond. Indeed, for Ian...

..., an event that may have hastened his death the following year (although this detail is contested, for example, in Bonner, ed., Selected Works 52n). Of his vast output (he wrote in Catalan as well as Latin and Arabic), it is the recurrent use of formal mechanisms —complex systems of combinatorics...

... figured partly through their negation in favor of “the eternal and the immutable,” to which “modernity” is opposed, but with which it is also, ironically, equated as “the eternal [distilled] from the transitory” (Painter of Modern Life  12). The Flâneur...

... (Felstiner 33); it is echoed in the poem’s almost song-like refrain that pairs the antipodal characters of Margarete and Sulamith, “dien goldenes Haar, Margarete/dein aschenes Haar, Sulamith.” The repetition of these phrases evokes the recurrence of the horrifying events of the poem: the German soldier...

... the site of a game of chance: 6 I am grateful to Paolo Valesio for calling my attention to the congruence between these two wagers. See also Lucien Goldmann, who refers to the relationship between the two wagers in order to highlight the relative worthlessness of human life, as compared to eternal...

... tears. In the baroque topos of ruins, the river is traditionally the symbol of eternity and nature, the witness of history who survives to tell the tale. Here, however, precisely because it is an imitation, the river does not repre- sent “nature,” nor is it a trustworthy witness (see Burton...

... eternal truths (246): “Let its errors and absurdities no longer be forced on the pious mind, but perish forever; let the Word of God come through Con- science, Reason, and holy Feeling, as light through the windows of morning. Worship with no master but God, no creed but Truth, no service but Love...

...; but the latter implicitly, agonistically, informs much of his thinking and writing as well. Borges’s unwillingness to distinguish the historical Baroque from a recurring, eternal baroque is understandable, given his philosophy of art and history; however, it ignores how periodization can have the heuristic...

... a submission to the law, “neither linear flight forward nor eternal return of the revenge/death recurrence, but a spiral that follows the path of death drive and  of renewal/love” (205). For Kristeva, the psychoanalytic conditioning of forgiveness is altogether dif- ferent from the narcissistic autonomy...

...,” a contemporary Baroque effect that Sarduy describes as being “nothing like it seems, the persistence or recurrence of a symptom, or an imitation, faithful though it may be, but a substitution — albeit THE (NEO)BAROQUE EFFECT / 299 very sober and austere —of one...

... wishes to gauge the self-determining spiritual or mental character of a particular human being. The sole emphasis on fixed traits of the body—above all, the skeleton and the skull—tends to go hand in (bony) hand with the notion that the spiritual character one pursues is a stable, eternally unchanging...

... or mental character of a particular human being. The sole emphasis on fixed traits of the body—above all, the skeleton and the skull—tends to go hand in (bony) hand with the notion that the spiritual character one pursues is a stable, eternally unchanging, deep essence. The emphasis on changeable...

... or mental character of a particular human being. The sole emphasis on fixed traits of the body—above all, the skeleton and the skull—tends to go hand in (bony) hand with the notion that the spiritual character one pursues is a stable, eternally unchanging, deep essence. The emphasis on changeable...