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... of the openness of Russia's historical future. Mediating between the novel and its contemporary journalistic discourse with the help of the formal (narratological) categories of character and emplotment, I argue that the novelistic search for the proper emplotment of its enigmatic hero corresponds to the search...

... University Press, 1978 . Callimachus. Fragments . Ed. and trans. C.A. Trypanis. Musaeus, Hero and Leander. Ed. Thomas Gelzer. Trans. Cedric Whitman. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press. London: William Heinemann, 1975 . Campbell, Marion. “Desunt Nonulla...

... they refuse the burden of living out — of repeating — the existence of the one who came before. Seen from this vantage, Shakespeare (through his tragic hero) and Freud both offer existential meditations on the need to originate our own lives even as they concede that, at the place of the origin, our lives...

...; and as a genre embroiled in emotion and trauma, it can speak to all sides wounded by conflict without moralizing. It is in the hero's direct encounter with and response to conflict and violence, what Raymond Williams calls “its experience, its comprehension, and its resolution,” that the essay locates tragedy's...

... to the fate of the senses under capitalism. Both elaborate a critique of political economy—Sand's voiced by her worker-hero—that demonstrates how the individual's sensuous life is circumscribed by the pressures of material subsistence. The article examines how this attention to the senses inflects...

...ANASTASIA GRAF University of Oregon 2005 Bakhtin, M.M. “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity.” Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M.M. Bakhtin . Ed. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Trans. Liapunov and Kenneth Brostrom. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990 . 4...

... in time. In the sequential acts of per- ceiving and then deciphering the blot, the viewer replaces the depicted figures as the painting’s true hero. Looking at a partially anamorphic image, the viewer is, as it were, split into two: called upon to seek an answer to a riddle on the one hand...

... Russian trait —​consists in its reliance on literary terms. For Erdinast-Vulcan —drawing​ on the unfinished philosophical manuscript “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity,” written in the mid-1920s and first published in Russian in 1979 (translated into English in 1990) authorship” comes to stand...

...SHARON LUBKEMANN ALLEN University of Oregon 2002 Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Avtor i geroi v esteticheskoi geiatel'nosti.” Estetika slovesnogo tvorchestvo . Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1979 . 7 -180. [“Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity.” Art and Answerability . Ed. Michael Holquist and Vadim...

... Character of Mesopotamian Heroes.” Revue d'Assyriologie 68 ( 1974 ): 49 -60. Armstrong, John. The Paradise Myth . London: Oxford University Press, 1969 . Bal, Mieke. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985 . Barre, Michael L...

... Studies 90 ( 1970 ): 121 -39. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory . 2nd ed. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1984 . Martin, Richard. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989 . Neill, Michael. “`Mulattos,' `Blacks...

... with a Russian name and accented speech. His first two novels—La Fille d’un héros de l’Union soviètique (A Soviet Hero’s Daughter) and Confession d’un porte-drapeau déchu (Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer)—were accepted only after he told the publishers that they were translations from the Russian...

... and with the multiple possibilities of identity that Odysseus tries on in his disguises and lies ( Van Nortwick ; Murnaghan ). It persists nonetheless in Lukács’s idea of the epic world as a simultaneously immanent and transcendent home for its hero ( 45, 56–61 ) and, more flattened, in Bakhtin’s ultramodernist idea...

... of the Russian Empire around 1880, amid the pogroms named “storms in the Negev,” when storm and wind became the symbols of destruction of East European Jewish civilization. The predecessors of the generation of 1880 had already presented their heroes caught in dizzy restless movement, drifting in the wind...

...: Twenty-First Century Batman . London : I.B. Tauris , 2012 . Print . Burgoyne Robert . The Epic Film in World Culture . New York : Routledge , 2011 . Print . Calin William . A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 1983 . Print...

... of political fiction. Set Oon the campus of Waindell College, Nabokov’s novel of the mid 1950s offers the reader and its heroes a refuge from the affairs of the world. Pnin himself is a refugee. He has fled the Bolshevik revolution, and his beloved, Mira Belochkin, has been killed in an extermination...

... the psychic burden of the lyric hero had been intertextual, the anxiety, to use Harold Bloom’s popular formulation, of literary influence. In the 1920s, by contrast, T’itsian’s lyric self appears more vulnerable to landscape and history, a permea- bility that became his new trademark...

... desires to end” (MP  1.2.86), Michael Hattaway identifies a “Derridean impasse” characteristic of Marlowe’s heroes: the boastful anticipation of ontological completion while “the fact of desire demonstrates its incomplete- ness” (212). Finally, Richard Wilson detects in Tamburlaine’s final speech II...