... in twentieth-century France. Resisting the Plague: The French Reactionary Right and Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty Constance Spreen uring a lengthy, hostile divorce from the surrealist circle in 1926, DAntonin Artaud reiterated his eschewal of political engagement in the most vigorous terms...

...Raymond Stephanson © 1989 University of Washington 1987 THE PLAGUE NARRATIVES OF DEFOE AND CAMUS ILLNESS AS METAPHOR By RAYMOND STEPHANSON In her essay Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag writes...

..., at the same time presenting in great detail the effect of a personal calamity upon Arthur Rowe, Camus, in La Pcste, analyzes in great detail the effect of a great and lasting calamity -an attack of the plague arid a resulting isolation from the rest of the world-upon the citizens of a large...

... have sought refuge from the plague and then amuse themselves with telling each other the famous hundred stories. These two funda- mental features, the plague (in Italy) and the place where certain people hoped to escape it, were furnished by these two Italian sources. Again we must...

... or elicit memories that restrict or thwart the momentum of the texts serve as evidences of Defoe’s anticipation, if not significant creation, of the effects of spatial form. Alkon utilizes the same techniques and terminology to present a challenging reading of the Journal oflhe Plague Year...

... as Defoe’s Journal of a Plague Year; Carnochan reads the Journal as a “general psy- chology of confinement” and sees the narrator H. F. as an “outline of the divided artist” (pp. 72, 78). The book also examines Vathek, The Beggar’s Opera, Caleb Williams, Cooper’s Hill, Eloisa to Abelard...

..., owing first to the plague. The meetings of the Society were suspended between June 28, 1665, and March 14, 1665/6, with only three meetings of the Council in the interim (11, 60-65). The further delay of nearly a year in resuming work on the history must have been owing...

... implications of the Byronic manifestations in Shelley’s novel. While most readings of The Last Man emphasize the world-ending plague that leaves the protagonist the titular last man, Havard reminds us that the plague appears in the narrative only after a lengthy discussion of political philosophy...

... of the like plagues for their rebellion and vnrepentance, not knowing with the wilful inhabitants of Ierusalem, the daye of their visitation.10 Deloney’s long poem, entitled Canaans Cdamitie, tells in detail the story of the overthrow of Jerusalem. Deloney spends little time preaching...

... Bouary’ as Tragedy milieu: she is better than the piddling figures we meet there; it is they and not she who are “too small an affair.” Heloise, Charles’s first wife, hates her “d’instinct,” for Emma is the only one untouched by the plague of mediocrity and hebetude, and in her Heloi’se...

... the plague to retreat, from past fact to a future envisioned by the group of ten young people, from, finally, painful experience to a joyful created fic- tion.20 Its first section is a history of the Black Plague of 1348; it is painful in its vivid evocation of historical fact...

... be firm, and at one point (pp. 159 ff.) applies very direct pressure. His jealousy of Reinhardt is evident. Schnitzler seems a much more compli- cated human being: beneath his Viennese smoothness of manner, one sees both a poet plagued by self-doubt and a keen businessman. More...

...”—which was true. He has taught me to strive for lucidity and succinctness, to avoid italics for emphasis, and to fend off scare quotes as if they were plagues on written language. Deploy is a very tired word, Marshall once (rightly) told me, though he excused one particular usage in reference to Lord...

... of their products’ uniqueness. In A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe suggests that the plague of 1665 gave rise to unprece- dented numbers and types of medicine advertisements: It is incredible and scarce to be imagined, how the posts of houses and corners of streets were plastered over...

... grows in the first days of the town: “banana and caladium [malanga], cassava and yams, ahuyama roots and eggplants” (14; CAS, 75).8 The fruits and vegetables reappear in the insomnia plague, when everyone’s memory becomes so feeble that the patriarchal José Arcadio Buendía must paste labels...

...-killing adultress and her paramour in all three Greek trag- edies of Orestes’ revenge, whose punishments purify the social/ political order. In other tragedies, there is a general malaise: the social rot of Denmark, the plague of Thebes which opens Oedipus the King, or the abhorrent social...

... the centrality of the Middle East to Western economics. The Muslim world’s supposed failure to ensure capitalist accumulation helped prop up a liberal model of economic agency. The Orient was stereotyped as plagued by property insecurity and uncertainty, leading to inefficient market behaviors like...

..., is in the author’s success in establishing correlations in areas where none were suspected before. The apparent disparateness in the proportion of the male to the female narrators, the relationship between the occurrence of the plague and the telling of stories, the significance of narrative embedding...

... : 487 – 95 . Lopez Jeremy . 2003 . Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . MacKay Ellen . 2011 . Persecution, Plague, and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England . Chicago : University...

...:~ Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft: Seek not my name. A plague consume you, wicked caitvfs left! Here lie I, Timon, who, alive, all living men did hate. Pass by and curse thy $11, but pass and stay not here thy gait...