...Albert J. George Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE FRENCH ROMANTICISTS AND THE CHAIN OF BEING By ALBERTJ. GEORGE Modern scholarship has steadily contributed much to the under- standing of one of the most complex...

.... BERYLKOWLAND York Uniuersity Charles Blyth, “Heigh Fantasye,” EIC, 27 (1977), 163. * “Contemporary Chaucer Criticism,” English, 22 (1973), 3-10. 9 .\iyrrour: Q dyscrypscyon of the worlde with many meruaylles (London, 1527 [?I), sig. D3V-D4r. The Tangled Chain: The Structure...

...James W. Mathews Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 HAWTHORNE AND THE CHAIN OF BEING By JAMES W. MATHEWS In line with Paul Elmer More’s conclusion that Nathaniel Haw- thorne “saw only the infinite isolation of the errant SQUcritical...

... investigation. MAXIMILLIANE. NOVAK University of California, Los Angeles Occasional Form: Heniy Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance. By J. PAULHUNTER. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. xiv + 263 pp. $12.00...

...DAVID EGGENSCHWILER Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 “DIE VERWANDLUNG,” FREUD, AND THE CHAINS OF ODYSSEUS By DAVIDEGGENSCHWILER For nearly half a century, since Hellmuth Kaiser’s 1931 essay in Ima...

..., and as philosophies of social consensus and psychologies of empathetic affect recollected it sentimentally and benevolently. Post-Miltonically, Satan has earned sympathy or pity: upon Sin’s attaching our world with a great chain of necessitarian and material causality. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington...

... as that which recognizes itself as such, see Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal, trans. Kevin Attell (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004). 356 MLQ September 2009 continuity of being, such as the great chain, or as a break in the chain. To imagine...

... irrelevant material. Although his view of Love was many-sided, he had a cosmic theory of p!enitude, continuity, and regeneration, and of the entelechy (the perfectionation) of Youth -of man’s desire to generate the true image of God. The Chain of Being is like a Chain of Mirrors in God‘s sight. Dr...

... and unacknowledged- sought, above all, the idea whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. Thus, when faced with such common ideas as those cited by Mr. Ault (pp. xliv-xlvi) as parallels : the civil Oeconomy is formed in a Chain...

... to claim that it exhibits a kind of symbolic vision. After all, it might be argued, do not the many familiar passages on philosophic optimism, plenitude, and the chain of being provide admirable examples of “what oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exfirest”? Indeed, the very familiarity of many...

..., earth is closer to heaven and, until the Fall of Adam, is physically linked only with heaven by the golden chain or golden ladder. The building of the bridge by Sin and Death in Book X, pre- sented after the human climax but seeming to occur simultaneously, might be termed the cosmological...

...- course with Mr. Fuseli which had at first been one of her greatest pleasures a source of perpetual torment to her. She conceived it necessary to snap the chain of this association in her mind and for that purpose determined to seek a new climate and mingle in different scenes.7 Mary felt...

... conservke par con- traires et dissemblances. Ce n’est donc sans cause, que nature appkte tant les contraires, faisant d’eux toute dkcense et beautk, non de sembla- bleThe Elizabethan world picture, particularly the idea of the great chain of being, is thoroughly imbued with concordia discors...

... in the text. Explanations, whether in philoso- phy, in fiction, or in law, assume free agency, causal effectiveness, and the status of manifestations as evidence of causes, with the possibility that an unbroken (or at least a traceable) chain leads from one back to the other.17 On this point...

..., Christ to Adam, Adam to Eve, or else the entire chain collapses painfully back into the “womb”; the father assaults his only begotten daughter, the son then assaults the mother; and all things born of the dust return to 160 PARADISE LOST earth...

... appears in the words with which he accompanies his gifts, the fawn and the silver chain: “look how your Huntsman here / Hath taught a Faun to hunt his Dear”-words that made a deep impression on her at the time, but which gained an even stronger significance after Sylvio’s breach of faith...

... blesses the sea snakes, they have taken on the characteristics of the Albatross itself and are actually part of a chain of modulations that links Albatross, sea snake, and seraph. By another chain of modulations, the rosy-red bride turns into the red-lipped Life-in-Death and finally becomes...

... criticism to be pure, while Derrida opposes the very concept of pure criticism. For if the literary object is ideal, it is not free; its ideality is “chained” to a natural language, an actual language, defined by its 5 Derrida, “The Time of a Thesis,” in Philosophy in France Today, ed. Alan...

... pages) is divided into sixteen sections. in which “Rules” are dealt with in three pages, “Taste” in three, Shakespeare in five, the Great Chain of Being in six, and so on. Some readers will be bothered by the wide use of such suspect conventional terms as “neo-classic” and “romantic...

....” Worse, black girls were sometimes dragged into an old Confederate graveyard and raped by a group of white boys, one of whom wore brass knuckles. Beecher (ibid.: 49) also recalls how he and his classmates would “watch the chain gang while we ate our lunches...