...Thomas Pfau The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS: THEORIZING AUTHORITY...

...Mariajosé Rodríguez-Pliego Abstract This article explores the relationship between storytelling and prophecy by reading narratives of extractivism in the US-Mexico borderlands that raise questions about the apocalyptic aftermaths of colonialism. Specifically, it analyzes contemporary migration...

... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...

... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...

.... THOMAS R. HART University of Oregon THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements...

... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...

.... THOMAS R. HART University of Oregon THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements...

... forces, the impassivity of the angels spurs Satan to action. One wonders whether an impasse is an impasse if one feels it to be one. In The Nascent Mind of Shelley , A. M. D. Hughes refers to the way these final six lines abruptly depart from the rest of the Chorus’s prophecy, as the Chorus calls...

... of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics . Berkeley: U of California P, 1996 . Kurzweil, Barukh. Ben chazon le-ven ha-absurdi [Between Prophecy and the Absurd] . Jerusalem: Shoken, 1966 . Lachover, Shmuel. Avraham Shlonsky: bibliyografya [Avraham Shlonsky: Bibliography] . Merchavyah: Sifriyat...

... : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . Hartman Geoffrey H. “ The State of the Art .” In Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars , 90 – 109 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1991 . Hegel G. W. F. The Encyclopedia Logic , translated by Geraets T. F...

... suffering quickly became the life- blood of his national poetry, and to a great extent that of all Israeli national poetry, a lifeblood that was later augmented by the controversial dimensions of admonish- ment and prophecy —not to mention embarrassment —in Bialik’s work (Miron). 8 Heinrich Heine...

... prophecy. Here, too, the future is narrated in the language of the past, as the names of the two protagonists, Chananiah and Shadrach, are borrowed from the book of Daniel. 7 Talma Admon (“Dror Burstien’s New Book”), Ori Cohen (“When Jeremiah Takes the Fast Train”), and Motti Fogel...

...” as the point of departure of Father Mapple’s sermon (rather than having the sermon open with the first episodes in Jonah, Chapter 1). In doing so, he calls attention from the very outset to the climactic moment in Jonah’s tale when the possibility of poetry/prophecy emerges. In “Song of the Sirens...

... THE MYTH OF MARSYAS IN OVID & HERBERT/159 system under the guise of the restoration of religion (Small 97). Aware that, in Small’s phrase, “the ruler or ruling party had to control prophecy lest he or they be predicted out of power” (110), Augustus tried to eliminate (or at least super- vise) any...

... the forsaken hero without whom, and without whose great bow, the city of Priam cannot be taken. So says a prophecy delivered by the Trojan Helenus, whose precise contents the tragedy unfolds in accord with a pattern of “thwarted clarity.” The theatrical- ized form of this spiritual process...

... the successful “particular” agent who can harness infinite energy without also reproducing violence and abstraction. Kuiken’s Blake, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 100 already pessimistic about the French Revolution by the time he wrote Europe: A Prophecy (1794), searches for coherent images and narratives...

... containing a prophecy regarding the fate of the Elector of Saxony and his line, which, it turns out, Kohlhaas had been given by a gypsy before his uprising had even begun. Kohlhaas thus discovers that he is in a position to avenge himself on Saxony and, rather than handing over the prophecy in exchange...

... that Tethys, following the prophecy of Proteus, recounts in book 10.10–73. These events were already in the past for Camões when he arrived in India in1553 and are viewed by the Lusíadas with nostalgia and a sense of present decadence. See the comments of Landeg White in Camōes, Lusiads, x. 22...

... invoking the vernacularization they propose. In closing this essay, I offer possibly the most salient features of what Miraji might have hoped to achieve with “Saffo.” One is tucked into the word shāyad : perhaps, conjecture, surmise. Perhaps is the signature of prophecy, and our first encounter...

... theories based on diverse theological, philosophical, and physiological arguments held that inspired melancholy could lead to bursts of artistic creativity in some, and in others it could provoke prophecies, visions, and the kind of mystical transport depicted by Milton and Darío. Lauren S. Dixon...