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...Frances L. Restuccia This essay reads To the Lighthouse through the lens of Giorgio Agamben's Pauline conception of messianic time and suggests that we reconsider the genre of modernist novels in light of such a “messianic aesthetic.” Insofar as To the Lighthouse presents chronological time...

..." that prevents any people from coinciding with itself, let alone with any transcendent principle of universal humanity (49-53), and that also characterizes the internally divided structure of messianic time. Indeed, Agamben's Paul is a thinker of the remnant rather than the universal, of the revocation...

... a concept of the present as the "now-time," in which splinters [or chips, or motes] of the messianic are sprinkled, (my transla- tion; see also Benjamin, Illuminations, 262-63) This can be compared rather directly to a similar passage in which Kracauer emphasizes in history less the emergence...

... of a people leads to disas- ter has been left behind for a model that is almost magical and certainly textual in its insistence on the primacy of the scroll. Without doubt, D is here facing a hard fact of history: Josiah's reforms, based on the "rediscovered" law, failed to produce a messianic...

... view, corrupting it. A year later, he began to recede from the central role he had hitherto played in the National Socialist party, and their violent state of exception, later claiming that he had underwent at this time an "inner emi- gration." In 1945, Schmitt was arrested by the Allies...

..., and Aesthetics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1989 Steiner George . “Work in Progress.” The Times Literary Supplement , issue 5044 ( December 3 , 1999 ) Tiedemann Rolf . Dialektik im Stillstand . Frankfurt : Suhrkamp , 1984 Wolin Richard . “Walter...

..., is a philosophy of identity and mobility told through a collection of vignettes that span a variety of times and places. Lauded by James Wood ( 2018 ) as “encyclopedic,” 1 this collage of short texts is necessarily a fragmentary work, an accumulation of disparate pieces. Księgi Jakubowe , clocking in just...

... Method and Anthropocene Time.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1 , no. 1 : 123 – 42 . Benjamin Walter . 1968 . “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” In Illuminations , edited by Arendt Hannah and translated by Zorn Harry , 253 – 64 . New York...

... that is not fixed to that certain time and place but starts, in fact, to feel almost messianically oriented toward fights that are yet to come: anticipating the affective turn, anticipating various returns of the aesthetic, anticipating the moves of postcritique, which take shape within a timeless crisis...

... to the past and to the future but never at where their feet are now, for “the present is a prison-house” (3). For other leftists, a messianic relation to time has meant designating the present as a waiting room for a miracle, whether Alain Badiou's ( 2008 : 585; 2006 , 173–83) “event,” Quentin Meillassoux's...

..., these critics agree, nineteenth- century literary discourse was in fact a site in which nonlinear conceptions of time were intermittently explored and dramatized. Thus in African American life writing, Pratt shows, one can detect the presence of revolutionary messianic time (185), while in Catharine Maria...

... 2005 . Wegner Philip E. `` A Night-mare on the Brain of the Living: Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day .'' Rethinking Marxism . Volume 12.1 ( Spring 2000 ). Zizek Slavoj . Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology . Durham...

... issue returns to The Radical Aesthetic to consider both how Armstrong's volume might remain, twenty-five years later, a timely intervention into debates about beauty, value, affect, and gender; and how the two decades and more of the so-called method wars and metacritical debate might look different...

...: ‘Michael’ and the Spots of Time .” In Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry , Hall Spencer Ramsey Jon , 86 – 8 . NY : Modern Language Association , 1986 . Eco Umberto . A Theory of Semiotics . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1975 . Eliot George , ed...

... solution of the life-­long search for the answer — the companion in-­time and out-­of-­time together” (H.D. 2012, 29). 5. For instance, Friedman (1981, 257) argues that in Helen in Egypt Achilles’s “assault [of Helen] turns into love,” because Helen invokes the mother-­goddess whom he, like...

... of the “perpetual-motion machine” representation of a “glamorous congestion” of stories, characters, events, locations, and whatever else, interconnected across time and space through enigmatic purpose or maybe just awesome coincidence (41). Dizzying linkages and the inscrutability of causality spur Wood's...

.... The book continues to be bold and timely thanks to its way of raising the question of the literary canon in academia critically but without conceding to the pieties of neoliberal multiculturalism. Guillory's work establishes a framework to address the canon as a matter of capital and power rather than...

... and objects in the process of imagining the world as whole, beyond nine- teenth-century ideas about the technological compression of time and space3 and twentieth-century accounts of the deterritorialization of cultural and social life.4 It also illustrates, glosses, and complicates a series of ideas...

... 1980s. Rows of slightly self-conscious English graduates in unfamiliar gowns are ranked before a podium where officials are to confer degrees and make speeches. Behind them staff, also in regalia, torn between delight in the students’ success and irritation at having to give up time for research, listen...

... include the very critical discourses readers use to unpack her texts. Because of this reflexive incorporation, it becomes tempting to read Carter's dense allegories as merely self-referential or parodic picaresques. Certainly the imagery at times can appear so outrageously surreal as to seem...