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...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...

..., the Carib conquerer Caonabo. The playwright uses several genre conventions from classical Greek tragedy to add mythical and legendary aspects to his historical account of the Aytian monarchs’ fateful demise. Métellus’s use of prophecy transforms history into the outcome of the monarchs’ inability to disavow...

... 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...

... interrupts its own prophecy of social renewal and the poem ends in a deadlock. While readers have long recognized that the question of how to fight tyranny without renewing tyrannical structures is crucial for Shelley, McGrath is the first to demonstrate the central role that impasse and impassivity play...

... 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...

... events” (historical, textual, theological). Adopting a biblical imagery and a prophetic narrative of destruction, as well as the linguistic register to match it, is thus also to adopt the cyclical temporal dimension of these narratives: prophecy, destruction, redemption. The result is not simply...

...” 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 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...

... 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...

..., because it chronicles a bewildering bureaucratic back and forth regarding Kohlhaas’s case between Saxony, Brandenburg, and the seat of the Holy Roman Empire in Vienna. It also takes a fantastical or in any case extraordinary turn involving a note containing a prophecy regarding the fate of the Elector...

... thousand years of human civilization—in particular, the rise of Rome and of literature in Latin—that separate it from the archaic world depicted in both Homeric epics. The Aeneid and epics subsequently modeled upon it make up such historical gaps with specific prophecies of the future, such as the one...

... might bring civilization to the vulgar masses of India. 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...