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...James Kuzner Abstract This essay considers the relation between lyric utterance, dramatic irony, and intellectual disability in King Lear , particularly in Lear’s famous address to Cordelia—which begins with “Come, let’s away”—just before Edmund sends both to prison. Reading “Come, let’s away...

... renowned poet and the commercial society he by turns fashioned and disabled. Christensen's "commercial soci- ety" is a supremely efficient, profoundly antidemocratic regime that came into its own with Byron and under whose spell we remain: its theorists are Adam Smith and David Hume (andJean...

... to the disabling oppositions and discontinuities that the realism of the main narrative uncovers and examines, including realism’s own opposing commitment to the particularity of experience and to the shaping of that experi- ence into coherent, closed, and meaningful structures. Leo Ber- sani...

... of the receiver is liberation, economic support, or legislative redress, then the feeling of concern from the giver is not only ineffective but also harmful, leaving the receiver feeling worse than before. Through her inquiry across discourses, including feminist ethics, queer kinship, disability activism...

... her to apply the lessons of disability to a planet that has become “overnight a disabling environment” (3) while struggling to focus on whether literary history can offer glimpses into “large-scale hazards” and “ongoing harms” (4). I have no doubt that it can. I also have no doubt that it, like us...

... that “women’s knowledge occurs through fissures in the socially knowable” (Gallop 2002 : 9). Disability studies draws our attention both to the gritty details of “pain and everyday humiliation” that are invisible to the able-bodied (Siebers 2008 : 65) and to the hypervisible details of bodies considered...

.... No. 53, “Alas, quid eligam ignoro,” is the longest poem in the collection and, in my judgment, the most interesting. In it a young Master of Arts and a young man of the world each recount the advantages and disabilities of the vocations open to them. The problem of choice is resolved...

... meaningfully to other markers of social difference, including sex, gender, and disability. 9 From this brief critical history, we can begin to tease out some cardinal assumptions now shared by theater historians and literary scholars: that the playtext was not necessarily the thing (or at least...

... of the aesthetic experience was not to be questioned. “There is,” wrote Young, “something in poetry beyond prose-reason; there are mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.” And if Pope’s com- pulsion was an obscure, nearly disabling disorder, Young’s anticlassi- cism transformed...

... interesting. In it a young Master of Arts and a young man of the world each recount the advantages and disabilities of the vocations open to them. The problem of choice is resolved by appeals to the experience of Susanna, Griselda, and Constance and determina- tion to rely on grace and trust...

... recipes and will appreciate the range of connections that she makes to current areas of critical interest, such as diversity and disability studies. Bower correctly articulates the danger that “our literary canons risk distorting medieval culture” (91), and her book is a valuable contribution toward...

..., this time by taking up internalized demands for productivity in the form of bids for longevity and “health.” Odell discusses the temporalities and experiences of people who have a structurally complicated relationship to biohacking, “wellness,” and other strivings for immortality: disabled people and those...

... questions, or to give readie aunsweres. . . .”28 B6t although in his suit to the gentlewomen readers he lays claim to all conceivable courtly disabilities, he obviously means to prosper. “Grosse” and “blunt” though his profession may make him, there is never any question throughout...

... between English romanticism's most renowned poet and the commercial society he by turns fashioned and disabled. Christensen's "commercial soci- ety" is a supremely efficient, profoundly antidemocratic regime that came into its own with Byron and under whose spell we remain: its theorists are Adam...

... 87 Such questions are not much pursued in this book. There is a disabling re- striction, first of all, in the rather artificial limits Morris sets to his study. The issues of the sublime are such as can be only in part contained within the sphere of Christian poetry, and it is in fact...

... and fundamental idea” in the Philoctetes story - “the concep- tion of superior strength as inseparable from disability.” In another connection he speaks of “the idea that genius and disease, like strength and mutilation, niay be inextricably bound up together.” This thesis, if thesis...

... ’s care .) 1 t would be wrong to attribute the fhilure of the Ilook to its thesis alone. Much of what disappoints the reader inheres in the presentation. Too often, an unclear train of thought is f‘iirtlier disabled Iiy it highfalutin, imprecise, and heavily be-jargoned prose style...

..., the novel offers him a potential marriage of sexual and financial providence, but Raphaël’s passion for Foedora knocks him out of reproductive whack, disabling him from the settlement that might have saved him from his “natural tastes.” The profitless desire he feels for Foedora encapsulates the commodity...

... with the knowledge that other recent works, notably A. Dwight Culler’s Poetry of Tennyson (1977), are available as a corrective, then the criticism is not finally disabling. At the end of his study the author declares, “To focus on domestic themes and images, and on the forms of idyl( 1) and romance, as I...

... a descendant of the Mores, the Heywoods, and the Rastalls, families known for their devotion to Rome, was at this time not only without strong theological convictions,l* but was anxious to dis- sociate himself from Roman Catholic intransigence and its attendant civil disabilities. Such dissociation...