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... as emotionally charged as any in the Evangelical tradition out of which he grew and from which he was trying so hard to differentiate himself. Within this testimony, the scattered confessions of his griefs and fears finally grow to such a weight of despair that they virtually demand some...

...William Cadbury Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE UTILITY OF THE POETIC MASK IN TENNYSON’S “SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS” By WILLIAMCADBURY John Keble, lecturing in 1832 as Oxford’s Professor of Poetry, called poetry “a kind...

.... 96 VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS CONFESSIONS Rate Sensitive Mind,” Browning’s Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession, and Clough’s Dipsychus. Of the more direct type of confessional writing, predominantly unorthodox, a few representatives should be mentioned-F. W. Newman’s...

... in her “Julie, ou La Nouvelle Htloise”: A Synthesis of Rous- seau’s Thought, 1749-1759 (1949), takes her place in the vanguard of the analytic monographers with an excellent contribution to our understanding of the relationship between art and truth in the Confessions. Writing with sufficient...

...Jesse Rosenthal Abstract This essay looks at literary criticism’s persistent confession of critics’ secret relations to literature. It argues that such formalized secrecy and confession are used to insist on a personal orientation toward the literary object that helps deny the institutional forces...

... of renewing the polis. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 Marivaux utopian theater la querelle de la moralité du théâtre scenario confession The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux s Utopian Plays Joy Palacios Abstract...

... of History in Fiction” (Woodward 2017 ). The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian C. Vann Woodward moderated the event with Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren, and William Styron. The panel was explosive, mainly because Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner had been published the previous year. Given...

... and confesses his crimes-some representation of the state as criminal. The corpus delicti creates the fiction of the criminal’s subjectivity in a criminal state. This fiction differentiates (and separates) the corpus from the tradition of social realism (as a whole culture and not just a literary...

... to “sayle by the Compasse of my minde” (169), impatient and disaffected-but he is not shown as admitting that he aims at the throne. His arraignment is contrived by his enemies, and when his “confession” is ultimately extorted, the possibility is left open that he may have confessed anything his...

... and addressing a pathetic appeal to the Jews. They are all converted, and having confessed before the Crucifix, go to find the Bishop and confess to him. The Bishop carries the Host back to the church in solemn procession, baptizes the Jews, and assigns penance to Aristorius and Sir Isoder. During...

... at filling out the typological significance of the story? Perhaps the most far-reaching invention of all, however, is one in which Towneley does not share. That is the confession of every other Abraham to every other Isaac that God and not Abraham has ordained his sacrifice. One effect...

...-giveness” (p. 199). The ceremony Williams ref‘ers to is the Anglican General Confession-and his argument hinges on the allegation that Mirabell’s nianeuverings against Lady WishfOrt show a “callous disregard of’ a lady’s feelings” (p. 195), and that for this sin Mirabell niust be shriven and fi...

... for the religious and moral theme of penance represented in the two confession scenes involving Gawain which have been analyzed as follows by John Burrow, with a wealth of illustration drawn from medieval penitential 1iterature.ll After the first two temptation scenes in Bercilak’s castle, Gawain...

... of the confessional imitation of the intentionally one-sided defense. ‘I‘he opposing pair is confession-novel. not literatuie folkloi-e-for instance, it is clear that much lyric is similarly ahistorical. WILLIAM CADBUKY 489 his leap of faith in the chain...

... innocence as the most powerful resource by which to convert vengeful motives, he only reminds us of the countless mechanisms by which he at- tempts to free it from social compromise, not the least of which is confession because it rejects the disguises of those moral and aes- thetic plots...

..., of‘ a Christian cerenion)~of’ penitence and fix-giveness” (p. 199). The ceremony Williams ref‘ers to is the Anglican General Confession-and his argument hinges on the allegation that Mirabell’s nianeuverings against Lady WishfOrt show a “callous disregard of’ a lady’s feelings” (p. 195...

... and Aeneas, telling the stories of their wanderings, are classical prototypes for literary confession. . . . Like their friends in the confessional, on the couch, or at their desks, they describe profoundly significant experiences that need to be de- scribed. (p. 1’73...

... long since changed masters : he now swore “bi gog,” and his station, the mound that once may have been a fairy sid, was now called a chapel, a name symbolically apposite to the place where Gawain would make at the last his true confession. The preeminence of Gawain did not end with valor...

... with Troilus (at 11. 498-525) in terms of an ironic anticipation of the patterns implied in the remaining section, where her final confession and testament are explicitly rehearsed. After the moment of epiphany, Cresseid utters a confessional lament; writes her testament, with its disposition...

... in the thirteenth century when parochial priests and parishioners were given a new identity and self-awareness. “Within fifty years of the council [the Fourth Lateran in 12151 there was a profusion of episcopal or synodal constitutions all over Europe and a remarkable array of manuals of confession...