Search Results for exemplarity

... by Cervantes. This would suggest that for Borges the least perfect kind of parasitism is the sort of erratic and idiosyncratic intertextual borrowing that Joyce performs. Menard, on the other hand, has produced a literal instantiation of an eternal Platonic object, the synecdochal exemplar, or “part...

... as exemplar of committed literature, the article then examines the convergence between the two writers' attitudes to the aesthetic. Essayism is a central preoccupation, as a discussion of both writers' preferred forms shows: Adorno's “The Essay as Form” and Barthes's “Inaugural Lecture” reveal strikingly...

... these contradictions, which helps elucidate Lorris’s ironic, though subtle, debate about the potential positive or negative exemplarity of Narcissus: “Guillaume renders with particular clarity and pointed irony the connection between refusing and assuming the Narcissan prototype” ( 949 ), while also opening questions...

... it, is Leopold Bloom. In Zumhagen-Yekplé’s reading, Bloom is an “unexpected literary exemplar of a person” (171) who, in “Ithaca,” shows “what it would be like to step back from our questions and let go of our quests for answers” (170). Bloom’s questions and quests are also ours because they are ordinary—“a deep...

... that of her Hebrew contemporaries? Schachter’s rethinking of these canonical figures also raises important questions about the relationship between this kind of diasporic literary history and national canons. Does a diasporic account only include those exemplars who fit its criteria, thus supplementing...

... and audiences. More to the point, Griselda’s problematic exemplarity is closely related to her status as a model of female virtue, a status that clearly affects how the message of the story is taken to apply to readers in the world outside the text. It is this interface between translation and gender...

... at the twentieth-century equivalent of the emperor’s court” (Finders Keepers 411). Given his own childhood, growing up on the family farm at Mossbawn, Heaney clearly identifies with the rural upbringing of both poets; how- ever, his two exemplars suffer a tragic destiny that he himself manages to escape...

... we offer then are exemplars of a regional ap- proach, one in which micro- and macro approaches complement each other.” The basic idea behind the volume is nothing if not laudable: to reconceptualize the national literary histories of the countries of East-Central Europe (a region that for its...

... we offer then are exemplars of a regional ap- proach, one in which micro- and macro approaches complement each other.” The basic idea behind the volume is nothing if not laudable: to reconceptualize the national literary histories of the countries of East-Central Europe (a region that for its...

... we offer then are exemplars of a regional ap- proach, one in which micro- and macro approaches complement each other.” The basic idea behind the volume is nothing if not laudable: to reconceptualize the national literary histories of the countries of East-Central Europe (a region that for its...

... we offer then are exemplars of a regional ap- proach, one in which micro- and macro approaches complement each other.” The basic idea behind the volume is nothing if not laudable: to reconceptualize the national literary histories of the countries of East-Central Europe (a region that for its...

... by a shared historical experience of the global totalization of capitalism can also give us a way of thinking about rewilding’s historicity. It seems only inevitable, then, that rewilders of various stripes find themselves rummaging in the salvage yard of noncapitalist social forms for exemplars...

... surprising as, according to Slavists like Eikhenbaum, the family novel originated in England, and the English wrote its greatest exemplars. In 1759 Oliver Goldsmith published a satire of Jemima and Louisa , an anonymous novel credited to a lady, but which Goldsmith suspected had come from one...

... finally be expelled for science to be science. After some twenty years of wasted effort, Kepler out- grows the Neoplatonic fantasies of which not only the Somnium but also his ear- lier Mysterium cosmographicum are exemplars. So too, by the close of the seventeenth century Newton will no longer...

... hegemony. It is, in short, a potential exemplar of an arguably distinctive genre of American Nigerian literature, also written by novelists such as Chris Abani, Taiye Selasi, and Teju Cole, that can be conceptualized as distinct from continental literary trajectories of the postcolonial period...

... in chapter 3), and it is as an exemplar of the latter genre that schol- ars tend to explore the relationship between Eliot’s and Tolstoy’s sprawling masterpieces. For the purposes of Kuzmic’s argument, it seems that the adultery is actually not necessary, and the same arguments could have been made...

... to Reading, and the Question of the Material Base.” Theory Now and Then . Durham : Duke UP , 1991 . 309 – 27 . Print . Monk Ray . “Life without Theory: Biography as an Exemplar of Philosophical Understanding.” Poetics Today 28 . 3 ( 2007 ): 527 – 70 . Print . Nancy Jean-Luc...

... apparaît dans l’expérience de la blessure, de l’offense, de la vengeance et de la lésion” (49; “Rather it would be the exemplarity . . . that allows one to read in a more dazzling, intense, or even traumatic manner the truth of a universal neces- sity. The structure appears in the experience...

... consistency, Petrarch identifies Seneca and especially Cicero, Horace, and the Scipios as the great exemplars and spokesmen for otium throughout the treatise. He finds most compelling the ethical dimen- sion of productive leisure that allows individuals to carry out their private and public duties...

.... 1951) groundbreaking debut novel Fuqahāʾ al-ẓalām (1985; Sages of Darkness ; hereafter Fuqahāʾ ) as an exemplar of environmental experimentation in the Arabic novel. 1 At first glance, this may seem a questionable choice. Barakāt’s status within the Arabic canon is complicated by his own...