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...Henry Staten Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting . By Harald Weinrich. Translated by Steven Rendall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi +254 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Henry Staten is Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University...

... as a foreign language, and text linguistics. He has received the Freud Prize for scholarly writing, the Premio Calabria for literature, and the Duden Prize for service to the German language. Topics of particular current interest are memory and politeness. Faust’s Forgetting Harald Weinrich...

... present, they inspire creative adaptation and forgetful recombination. This revision of influence also challenges viral theories of cultural transmission by positing a more active role for the artist. More important than Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence is an anxiety of significance emerging from...

... in “The Flower.” While Herbert’s speaker seeks God as that object, his own memory impedes him, making him question God’s goodness and forcing him not only to abandon forms of remembering that Herbert’s sources—from psalmists to theologians—employ so as to rise to praise, but also to use form in order to forget...

...- nialism has too often been cultural amnesia-the loss of collective memories through either gradual erosion or systematic erasure- explorers and missionaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries fre- quently exported back to Europe the image of the forgetful native. The history of modern...

... dejection” (SS, p. 212) intensified by haunting doubts and “the pain of continual self-reproach” (SS, p. 270). Austen’s interest in showing what is first an unwillingness and later an inability to forget strongly suggests the impact of Idler 72, where Johnson cautions against catching misery...

...- ter it. On the other hand, a model of partiality and selectivity is fore- grounded that resembles Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of postmod- ern pragmatics: the self-legitimation of narrative that bolsters sociality and affirms agency by embracing forgetfulness. Galatea 2.2 treats a Modern...

... the rhetorics of genealogy and generation in sixteenth-century accounts of botany and forestry. Reviews Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. By Harald Weinrich. Translated by Steven Rendall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi + 254 pp. In a 1966 conference paper Umberto Eco argued...

... is English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702 (2004). Reviews Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. By Harald Weinrich. Translated by Steven Rendall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi + 254 pp. In a 1966 conference paper Umberto Eco argued that an art of forgetting...

... is author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (2001)and The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction (2004). Reviews Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. By Harald Weinrich. Translated by Steven Rendall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi + 254 pp. In a 1966...

.... She is author of The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction (1988)and The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction (1994). She is currently writing a book called What Dickens Knew . Reviews Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. By Harald Weinrich...

... David Huntsperger is assistant editor of Modern Language Quarterly . He is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Washington. Reviews Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. By Harald Weinrich. Translated by Steven Rendall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi + 254 pp...

... Wach, Das Verstehen: Grundzüge einer Geschichte der hermeneutischen Theorie im 19. Jahrhundert, 3 vols. (Tübingen: Mohr, 1926 – 33). 516 MLQ December 2006 presupposes a temporary loss of independent subjectivity: a forgetting of oneself to achieve a fuller...

..., but not in my aesthetic-stylisticstudy of Berceo. I mention some of the authors who have touched this point: Llorens, Nykls, Krauss. (7) He states: “Gariano, forgetting his card file and his linguistics. . Slow down, please. I did not have a card file. I did not need it, for my work...

... as well apply to the resistance to theory and history as necessarily coeval dimensions of the same predicament. That theory and history are constantly implicated in one another is a truism whose force lies not only in how much we attempt to practice its implications but also in how much its forgetting...

... of amnesty and forgetting on the literature and culture of seventeenth-century France. French Tragedy and the Civil Wars Andrea Frisch Les moeurs d’une nation forment d’abord l’esprit de ses ouvrages drama- tiques. Bientôt ses ouvrages dramatiques forment son esprit. [At first...

.... The deconstructive impulse seems most powerfully at work in Welsh’s reading of Romola. He presents it as a novel of “great subversive power” (p. 190). Eliot is seen with Romola on the side of “memory and truth” (p. 190); Tito is on the side of forgetfulness and deceit. But the contradictions in Romolu...

...” and explain their only important innovations, changes in the order of events, as due to minstrels after the transla- tion had become “their common property.” This is to forget that in early fourteenth-century England piety still paid better than secularity ; so rough and ready a verse translation...

... both to a “churchman” and explain their only important innovations, changes in the order of events, as due to minstrels after the transla- tion had become “their common property.” This is to forget that in early fourteenth-century England piety still paid better than secularity ; so rough...

... have to, I forget, no matter. At the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never. (Beckett 1958: 291)8 What to say, how to say it, under such conditions? As in Blanchot’s case, the first step is to suspend the law of noncontradiction, or at all events to experience its...