... are salvifically coextensive. On the political level, Lily's artistic vision neutralizes Mr. Ramsay's sovereignty by putting his linear journey to a new, playful use—a pure means without end. Given that Agamben laments the scission in the Western cultural tradition between philosophy and poetry, it seems germane...

... moment even to a reader to whom the political outcome is known. Thus Bowen's changes to narrative discourse produce a tension between the focalized present and the project of looking back at history, conveying an ambivalent mixture of lamentation, critique, and tentative responsibility that characterizes...

...Stephanie A. Smith Both Walt Whitman and Herman Melville wrote poetry about the Civil War, and while Whitman's is better known, Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) remains an interesting experiment in improvisation, a kind of “blues” lament for a loss that could...

..., Femininity, and Changing Times.” Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sartoris Family . Ed. Kinney Arthur F. . Boston : G. K. Hall and Co. , 1985 . Holst-Warhaft Gail . Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature . London : Routledge , 1992 . Ramazani Jahan...

..., the complaint, and the lament. This multiplicity of forms virtually compels the modern elegy to mani- fest a series of what might be called attitudinal tonalities--from the comic to the satiric to the ludic and to the ironic. Parts II and III of this essay examine select specific poems not hitherto...

... : U of Georgia P , 1985 . Patenaude Anne Weston . “ A Critical Old Spelling Edition of Robert Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies .” Diss. U of Michigan , 1978 . Pepys Samuel . The Diary of Samuel Pepys . Ed. Latham Robert Matthews William . 11 vols. Berkeley : U...

..., O my father," with the King James translation, through its use of the supplemental repetition of "even me also" and the vocative, giving emphasis to the pathos of his plea. Then in 28:38, after a few verses in which he laments Jacob's stealth, he says again, "Hast thou but one blessing, my...

...' provocative thesis is that identity politics is the necessary and lamentable outgrowth of the radical skepticism about meaning and language that characterizes poststructuralism. The link between Benn Michaels' reading of poststructuralist theories of language and meaning and its direct link...

... exemplifies a poetic- sociological- media theoretical option that is distinct from lamenting networked life, celebrating it, or opting into it ambivalently (140). On Love is a dream of communication that registers transmission failure as both an unam- biguous tragedy and a condition of poetic utterance...

... relation to oppressed blacks at home and throughout the world. A sympathy for the black liberation movements of the 1960s and a condemnation of the excesses of American power would not be unexpected from the author of the poem "For the Union Dead," published in the same year, with its lament...

... serves as the rejoinding "Song of the Answerer."5 Too often, Schuyler laments, contemporary poets become lost in There is likewise a modern homosexual variant of the pastoral that has been employed to emphasize the artificiality of reality, including of nature and of the natural...

.... This notion that power is not a zero-sum game is extremely unusual in American autofiction, where the author-character often spends much of the novel lamenting the loss of his (almost always his) writerly prowess. For example, “Arthur” in The Tragedy of Arthur feels woefully inadequate because his writing...

... Chinese Americans and Chinatown" (Horn "An Introduction" 60). Out of the more than thirty topic categories in each of the anthologies, Horn has grouped his selec- tions into eleven categories such as "Immigration Blues," "Lamentations of Stranded Sojourners," "Lamentations of Estranged Wives...

..., as though the facts of his sickness, and the incursion of urban pigeons, perhaps carrying conta- gion, are, at this point, of essentially academic interest. The absence of outright lament, complaint, or self- disgust marks the speaker as one who has already disengaged to some degree from the life...

... to define the public sphere by loss or decline. This language of decline tries to reassert a national identity by lamenting the loss of a glorious ancient past, or a precrisis Greece. Simultaneously, this narrative of loss is legitimized by a history of exclusion and the desire to return to a pure (yet...

..., lamenting the difficulty of getting inside the head of homosexuals while decrying the mob impulse to destroy the homo (quoted in Gutkin: 60 61). Gutkin tracks this ambivalence throughout Chandler s novels, which manifests formally both in a suspicion of high modernist abstraction...

... psalms he printed for this purpose is the beautiful but morally problematic "baby-bashing psalm," 137, which reveals his militancy (571-2). He probably chose it because the psalm laments the Babylonian Captivity and Protestants identified the reign of the "corrupt" Roman Church from about the sixth...

... designed to forestall the inevitable. And if "men may see" the circumstances that encourage daughters to cast off their virtue, such men can only hope that this lamentable state does not come "to soone." The presentation of maidenhood becomes the occasion to articulate a misogynist horizon within...

... poetics of pollution in the colonial Philippines, a racializing of germ theories that conventionally contrasted a clean, ascetic American body with an open, pol- luting Filipino body" (687). As one pensionado, J.P. Katigbak laments, "The sewage is disposed of in a primitive and dangerous way. Hence...

... struggled to determine the level of irony in the text. How much of a dis- tinction should we make between Johnson and his narrator? To what extent does Johnson set his narrator up for ridicule and critique? Should the narrator's final lament over the loss of his musical legacy provoke our sympathy...