...Emily V. Thornbury [email protected] Katherine Storm Hindley , Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 How do words work? Do words you see work...

... grow, it seemed all of a sudden as if an ancestral rabbi reappeared from behind the charming Marcel we once knew” (Recanati 1979 : 16, quoted on p. 127). In a series of deft readings of the Recherche , Freedman shows how engaged Proust's flights of poetic and sociological fancy are in evoking...

... was always fully engaged and unforgettable: by turns charming and crude, petulant and noble, witty, allusive, emotional, at all times wide-ranging and intelligent. It was readily apparent why the voice would be off-putting to many, full as it is of what Weil and Wolfe call "celebratory hubris...

... or historically. While this characterization is reformulated by the novel's conclusion, the initial singularity of her surfaces seems to enable something like pure pleasure. Lucy Graham, the local governess who "was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word...

... in order to justify the white man s own sexual panic (Baldwin 1961). Indeed, one could draw a firmer link between representations of race, hipsterism, and dandyism by examining Mailer s violent dismissal of Baldwin s charming, dandiacal prose: Even the best of his para- graphs are sprayed with perfume...

... of the country's best swing bands. This occurs at what seems to be the height of the nation's infatuation not only with the band Scooter joins, but with the musical form as well. Scooter leads a charmed life in the novel, beginning with how quickly he catches on to the band's way of playing (which...

... civilized with us (in America or elsewhere) and who today dance and shout, are the swampy smells of decomposition which ignited above this immense cemetery: on a negre night, vaguely lunar, we are thus witnessing an intoxicating dementia of shady and charming will-o'-the wisps...

... . Mellow James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company . New York, New York : Avon Books , 1974 . Print . Modleski Tania . Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women . Hamden, Connecticut : The Shoe String Press , 1982 . Print . Nickerson Catherine Ross...

.... Instead, he suggests that in his reflections on his relationship with Gonne he has achieved a certain wisdom: "Yet many, that have played the fool / For beauty's very self, has charm made wise" (Poems 191). What did Yeats learn from Maud Gonne? After the Easter Rising, as a husband and a father...

... are to be achieved" in the Hollywood comedy of remarriage (Cavell 49). In its portrayal of this neighborhood, the film serves as both a celebration of the success of these spatial transformations and a further advertisement for the area's charms (indeed, the success of the film resulted in the neighborhood...

..., the sixth founder and his descendents Ma Ju, Yun Meng, lin Qi, while the Northern Sect was on the wane. The artistic realm depicted by Mojie was described as fol- lows: “traces of the mountain peaks tower into the mysterious places of nature, the charms of the strokes...

... is it? CUPID. A woman's heart. (IV.ii.46-59) Here we find the "quid," "quo" and "quae" of manual language applied to the business of love, though the charm of the conceit depends on the inexecutable nature of the tasks that Cupid specifies—the manual conceived, as it were, as an adunaton...

... more eminently excellent than the rest of that with which it is united” (quoted in Bene- dict 1994, 318). Beauties, Benedict notes, “are passages which can be severed from their own surrounding context without losing their charm for the reader” (318). The word beauty often turns two ways...

...," in search of the secret of eternal life, they find a "pillar of light," the "flaming sword" stabbing "right through the heart of darkness" (206). As both Gilbert and Gubar and Showalter point out, it is hard not to succumb to the charms of primitive psychoanalysis when confronted...

... that Farina might have been at least preparing to use Baez for his own ends. But if Farina does use his friends, he is still presented as somehow charm- ing rather than mean and manipulative. And if he too embroidered his past, with "innumerable . . . fantasies, partial truths, exaggerations...

... ends. But if Farina does use his friends, he is still presented as somehow charm- ing rather than mean and manipulative. And if he too embroidered his past, with "innumerable . . . fantasies, partial truths, exaggerations, and appropria- tions from people he had met of had read about," at least...

... of Hajdu's sources also suggest that Farina might have been at least preparing to use Baez for his own ends. But if Farina does use his friends, he is still presented as somehow charm- ing rather than mean and manipulative. And if he too embroidered his past, with "innumerable . . . fantasies...

... ends. But if Farina does use his friends, he is still presented as somehow charm- ing rather than mean and manipulative. And if he too embroidered his past, with "innumerable . . . fantasies, partial truths, exaggerations, and appropria- tions from people he had met of had read about," at least...

... someone will want to marry me!" (111) Returning to her own biological family, Alice discovers her projected family as something immanent in her that can only be activated by someone else. The passage produces a retrograde ideology of passively waiting for Prince Charming. She begins baby-sittingGood...

... in Thailand for attempting to transport drugs — not on her own; not of her own volition; but in an extreme staging of what both nov- els represent as her untidy, unruly, naive, heedless, feckless charm. Despite her charm and her naïveté, however, Bridget is imprisoned and languishes in jail for a ten...