... a visual origin or point of reference. The inherent uncanniness of the voice—whether it be the dog’s absent master, man’s distant lover, or woman’s internalized other—is normalized by digital technologies such as MP3 compression. Depending on the conditions of production, distribution, and reception...

... and are in bad taste. Reading the phenomenologist Aurel Kolnai with the gastronome Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, this article explores how rot and decay, the negative of the aesthetic and gastronomic, function as a structural language in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989...

... , 1954 . Duras Marguerite . The Lover . Trans. Bray Barbara . New York : Harper , 1986. Trans. of L'Amant . Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1984. Duras Marguerite . Marguerite Duras . Paris : Albatros , 1979 . Duras Marguerite . Moderato cantabile . Paris : Editions...

..., gender, etc. It helps us to understand that what we are at the level of the ego may be a much more complex issue than we are accustomed to imagining, having to do not only with mothers, fathers, lovers, etc., but also with line, shape, composition, color” ( Bersani, “Conversation” 9 ). The last word...

...- tion between (masculine) lover and (feminine) beloved as a “profanation” incapable of ethical significance or responsibility. For Lévinas, the fragile, clandestine nudity of the beloved evokes the lover’s equivocal desire...

... in something physiologically from one's partner - still, the aim of love remains unfulfilled. The aim will be satisfied only by complete possession and incorporation of the other person: and the person is far more than little surface pieces of rnatter. Lucretius concludes that lovers must necessarily remain...

... poetry’s tendency to be written by a lover about and/or to a beloved, a poem that is speaks to one person and that readers overhear. But intimacy, as I understand it, includes desire, and conventional domestic relationships...

... and Perron 355 – 63 . Blunt James . “ Goodbye My Lover .” Back to Bedlam . Atlantic UK , 2005 . Boellstorff Tom . Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2008 . Boulter Jonathan . Parables of the Posthuman...

..., sometimes in language that is all but identical. Correspondingly, the novels eschew episodes in which the hero intervenes actively to save the heroine. There are no scenes in which the valiant lover comes to the rescue of his lady in distress. Sometimes, indeed, the apparent passivity of the male...

.... The Portrait of the Lover . Trans. Laura Gibbs. Berkeley: U of California P, 1999. Trans. of Il ritratto dell'amante. Turin: G. Einaudi, 1992 . Bömer, Franz. Metamorphosen, Buch 4–5:Kommentar . Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1976 . Bowie, Angus. “ Exuviam Effigiemque: Dido, Aeneas and the Body as Sign...

... motifs may strike some viewers as innovative and perhaps even transgressive. For this viewer, however, they were in the end regressive. Let me explain. First, the homoerotic subtext: the actor who plays Fanon walks around bare-chested and broods as Kobena Mercer and a male-lover kiss each other...

... at Gertrude's death bed, Alice might here ask: "Now that you're dying, tell me Gertrude, what's the answer?" And Gertrude might reply: "What's the queery?" Gertrude, the lesbian on the border of life/death, locked in language with her lover, exits through a campy inversion. The lethal offshoot of Plato's...

... and Baudri probably never reached the tragic intensity typical of mythological lovers such as Ariadne and Theseus, this epistolary model was accessible to Constance, and she adopted it in her exchange with Baudri. Like other Ovidian heroines, she hints at Baudri’s betrayal (201.85), describes an inner...

... Burke’s depiction of the two characters as lovers. The need to articulate a rationale for the impossibility of interracial romance also took Griffi th back to the charged subject of miscegenation in Birth. He recon- structs Birth’s...

...: should one kill the lover? just the lover? the lover and one's spouse (Adler 164)? Paradoxically, then, although the state brought criminal charges for crimes passionnels, their resolution obeyed conventions and understandings that were external to criminal law. When the President of the Cour d'assises...

... contains the two main features of Atwood's remark about ghosts. First, a woman claims she is being spied on, stalked, or otherwise persecuted by a male friend or lover; yet that persecutor never quite manifests himself clearlyand thus, the woman's claim appears paranoid to those around her. Second, she...

... to choose inappropriate objects. To say that love is blind is to suggest that if only Cupid properly aimed his bow, or the lover had twenty-twenty vision he or she would see the blemishes that mark and mar the beloved, would distinguish...

... he notes the difference in language between the lovers’ ἔρως and Lycaenion’s ἐπιθυμία. 16 Winkler argues that Lycaenion’s sympathy with the young couple’s struggles distinguishes her from other predators in the novel. However, her repeated deception seems to indicate that Lycaenion...

... make love that night three times in a little pavilion and once in a rococo love-chamber, hidden in the recesses of the husband’s chateau. Yet, at the end of this night of debauchery, the narrator runs into the official lover of Mme de...

... difference to be made, it is that a male lover should demonstrate all his love, and a female lover should be content to let her lover guess all of hers. (Scudery, Artamene 416)2 Failure "T have as usual failed," says J. L. Austin at the end of his lectures entitled How To Do Things With Words. How and when...