... of Anachronism Srinivas Aravamudan n Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations I(1744), Giambattista Vico describes four kinds of anachronism: “The first error regards as uneventful periods which were actually full...

...Daniel Javitch This essay challenges the view that the last part of Orlando furioso takes an “epic” turn and abandons many of the “romance” features that characterize its first half. The essay does so by considering (1) the anachronism of projecting onto the Furioso a desire on Ariosto's part...

... of late style and from Theodor W. Adorno’s and Edward Said’s theories of late style as ironic anachronism. By conveying in prose style the relative decline and the contingent reduction that for Roth and DeLillo define lateness as a temporality, their novels find in lessness a motivated style for lateness...

...). Ritson stands out from his peers in his willingness even to consult such penny histo- ries as he constructs a national body of song, but his terms of inclusion do not here deviate from anachronizing logic, in which “the people” coexist with the present but are also ineluctably connected...

... and fall of the impresa about a century later, Hollow Men offers an elaboration of Alex- ander Nagel and Christopher Wood’s recent discussion of the temporality of early modern artworks. Their notion of the anachronic — the productive...

... but also makes us realize how inaccessible even our immediate familial environs can be” (5). Anachrony and anachronism are constant companions in the fictions, philosophies, and case studies that follow. Dynastic is almost a misnomer for us moderns, who associate the term with the aristocracy and who...

... them in dialogue with one another. Two dialogues especially impress me: Baker’s and Gamer’s, on the work of character in Scott, and Sorensen’s and Ferris’s, on the anachronistic temporalities of Romantic historicism. At first it seems as though anachronism must play a different, even...

... of the understanding regard are equal if competing dimensions of his accomplishment, and they make him central for most considerations of periodization today. In all aspects, periods interrogate us even as we look at them. Febvre called anachronism “the sin of sins...

... on its “anachronism” and its allusions to the epic tradition, especially the Chanson de Roland, but both of these features point to a broader, more pervasive interest in understanding the siege of Thebes with reference to contemporary mil- 12 The representation of a fraternal relationship...

..., that Defoe’s “anachronisms” are not examples of hasty and careless planning, but are the result of Defoe’s deliberate placing of his characters in two times at once, thus enabling them to be immediate and sympathetic, and yet remote and mythic. “Defoe manages to have it both ways” (p. 35). Thus Roxana...

... of such claims, especially when faced with anachronisms (projecting onto antiquity alien concepts, categories, and prisms of observation) or with disregard for processes of change and continuity. In my own work on ancient Greek religion, myth, and colonization, I have used postcolonial notions...

... as his earlier prose invites it. Not ancient only but modern. —Milton, “Of Tragedy,” Samson Agonistes anachronism diachronic Dryden Milton modernity Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 ...

... : 92), calls “the charm of old spelling” is a multitemporal effect, an unstable mix of intention and accident, poetic artifice and readerly anachronism. 9 E.K.’s ( 1579 ) preface and gloss to The Shepheardes Calender undoubtedly influenced Spenser’s reputation for linguistic archaism...

... at the vanguard of the contemporary, anticipating back in 1600 the cutting edge of the most recent now. Quite a feat—especially for a character famous as a pro- crastinator. But what a strange prolepsis. How can a work be anachronous with its own time...

... were not used on the candles shown serving as foot- lights in the Wits frontispiece (1662). His willingness to reason from the analogy of modern theater practice!-hut is a term used in modem stage lighting -is frequently enlightening but constantly skirts the danger of anachronism...

... by the astonish- ing union of fecundity and discipline that followed in the wake of the Inferno Period. It is no easy task to humanize history. Strindberg never resorted, as did Shaw, to the momentary successes of anachronism or to jocular epilogues. Simplicity of idiom plus complexity...

...). There is yet more. Chapters on John Stuart Mill’s social and aesthetic theories and on the “strategic anachronism” built into William Morris’s book designs for the Kelmscott Press (154) pursue the adventures of semi-detachment in other settings but with the same rigor and critical imagination. Plotz somehow...

... serving as foot- lights in the Wits frontispiece (1662). His willingness to reason from the analogy of modern theater practice!-hut is a term used in modem stage lighting -is frequently enlightening but constantly skirts the danger of anachronism. The second essay, by James Stinson...

..., familiar questions can yield unexpected answers, especially when an alert critic confronts the details of subtle texts, as Levenson often does here. An effect of anachronism is produced not because Levenson is unaware of all that has happened in fiction and theory since Virginia Woolf published...

... speculative, while his comments on improbability and anachronism (pp. 144-45) are marginal. Originally called “The Rhetoric of Fairyland,” this chapter appeared in The Rhetoric of Renais- sance Poetry’-paradoxically, it might seem, since it had nothing to do with rhetoric, and when reread here seems...