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...Susan Rosenbaum The association of the cliché with a devalorized and feminized sentimentality—with feeling regarded as excessive, insincere, mechanized, or commercially debased—emerged in the late nineteenth century and was instrumental to the canonization of literary modernism in the 1940s...

... be extended a good deal further. One example, which we will simply touch upon here, can be seen in the work of Gustave Flaubert, and particularly in his focus on clichés and idées reçues. We turn to Flaubert for a moment because the clichés ubiqui- tous in his...

... a community of understanding.” Rosenbaum’s essay returns us to three artists aware of a certain form of the “ludicrousness of lyric,” a situation recognized by Raymond Roussel and Marcel Duchamp in a way that, she argues, taught John Ashbery how to read clichés for the “residual power of poetry...

... theory. It is instructive, after all, to consider how widely the critique of metaphor has resonated. Snediker proposes that what scholars have often meant by their suspicion is a warranted aversion to the cliché (12). There is truth to this. The broad appeal of a text like Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's...

... of chapter 2, relies upon clichés not just to reflect erotic affections but to generate them. Hunter therefore brilliantly reads Romeo and Juliet as showing “how love conscripts the most publicly circulated linguistic forms so that it might be experienced as a private, self-generated, and formless event...

... Nothing,” which weaves together everyday clichés, journalistic tropes, and evasive political statements that in fact “say nothing.” Then, in the final section, Fogarty turns to monologues uttered by imaginary victims of sectarian violence, as in the poetic sequence “Station Island.” Here, the use...

... their excessiveness; however, they are really a product of what Todd McGowan ( 2007 : 12) calls Lynch's own excessive normality, his “ too mainstream for the mainstream.” Slavoj Žižek ( 2000 : 19) has likewise argued that these seemingly ironic clichés and sentimentality in Lynch's films should instead be taken...

... phors to represent external experiences and do so mainly in the early stages of therapy (McMullen 1985). A series of qualitative studies intensively exploring metaphor episodes in psychotherapy sessions have consistently found that both cliché and novel metaphors have profound experiential impact...

..., that are also very famous works. Gustave Flaubert's Dictionnaire des Idees Regues (1881) began life as a supplement to his last novel, Bouvard et Pecuchet. The "accepted ideas" which Flaubert mocks are thoughtless cliches and stock responses. His means of mockery is extremely restrained; he simply lists...

... treble parts whenever these adolescents found it impossible to contain song of some kind.) "I can't hardly wait!" he exclaimed (3-4). This is evidently parody; an abundance of markers point to that conclusion - the corny idioms, the conspicuous cliches ("ascended briskly...

... was generally characterized by banality and unexamined clichés and that the subjects of his book were great insofar as they were able to improve the genre. A modernist popular musician, in his accounting, usually proceeds by seiz- ing on that which is trite and worn out and then reworks it “so that shared...

... century’s turn, whether African Americans, Jews, or women. But for all that, there is still a hierarchy in Schleifer’s conception of musical modernism. One of his overarching arguments is that popular music at the cen- tury’s turn was generally characterized by banality and unexamined clichés...

... him. A doctor was sent for, and I heard the groans and the screams of my child while the wounds were being sewed up . . . (123) And once again, historical narration is followed by melodrama and cliche- . . . O, what torture to a mother's heart, to listen to this and be unable...

... nation confronts global flows of people and capital. The images point to the disjoining of nation from state, of culture/ethnicity from territory, about which both Habermas and Appadurai write.6 Within this contemporary ethnoscape, viewers witness what might be termed cliches of the visual...

... over the top: Challenger is a hyperbolic version of the extrovert variety of eccentric genius; Roxton is a hero out of Rider Haggard; Summerlee is the introverted version of the clichéd man of science; even the innocent Malone—the ‘straight man’ of the circus—joins the mission...

... individual and yet general—as conventional or cliché as the romance tropes in Theodore and Samantha's sex scene. Attending to this sex scene reveals how the film's premise rests on Theodore misrecognizing Samantha's being as “genuine” because Samantha performs the generic codes of “woman” through...

...” difficulty, which analyzes the difficulty and bewil- derment occasioned not simply by the violation of received ideas—the clichés Schleifer and Whisman find in Flaubert and Oushakine and Glanc find in post- Soviet Russia—but which call into question the very moorings...

... codes rather than in attempting to work outside them entirely. In a manner perfectly in keeping with the Barthe- sian emphasis on play or disfiguration, Manchette’s novels alternate between a supersaturation of cliché and convention and the excision or perversion of the voyeuristic pleasures...

... and providing access to experiences otherwise accessible only to those who “were there” has been a long-standing critical cliché. 1 Yet discussions on poetry's ability to do so never go beyond a vague, at best metaphorical, understanding of how that happens. If we were to consider the notion of poetry...

... shelter to un- American feeling and the queer repetitions of kitsch (142). Reach- ing through the looking glass of sitcom reality, Chasar s argument powerfully renovates how we imagine a literary form available to all and, what is more, discovers it in a lyric unashamed by cliché, unattached to values...