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...Peter Ure Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 CULT AND INITIATES IN FORD’S LOVE’S SACRIFICE By PETERURE Ford’s tragedy Love’s Sacrifice was probably written between 1625 and 1628; we do not know when it was first performed. It was printed...

... Richards and Bentham or from the easy “naturalism”of his class, Empson acquired an early distaste for the spec- tacle of human tragedy and the particular but not exclusively Christian sym- 462 REVIEWS bolism of the redemptive sacrifice...

...Hildegarde Drexl Hannum Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 SELF-SACRIFICE IN DOKTOR FAUSTUS THOMAS MAN”S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAUST LEGEND By HILDEGARDEDREXL HANNUM The basis...

...Alexander C. Y. Huang Modern Chinese fiction dealing with cultural others can be taken as a lens through which to reread the cosmopolitan theory. At stake in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism are the viability of single cultural membership and its validity. Lao She's Self-Sacrifice...

... (a person, an artwork, a battle) that prioritizes the act of typifying, an act that does not sacrifice but discloses, or even constitutes, the individual. Like the Proustian type, context is best understood not as an alienation from, but as a route to, the particularity of the literary object. a.ossa...

... Le’s “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” deploy description to unsettle detail’s objectifying effects. Their authors invent techniques of deploying racist and exotic details to reveal how the logic of liberal multiculturalism and diversity rather than the aesthetics...

..., the poems about Christ’s sacrifice which imitate medieval poetry and Cath- olic meditation.8 These poems can be divided into four groups: a co- herent sequence of Latin poems entitled Pussio Discerptu; a few similar Latin poems in Lucus; a sequence of poems at the beginning of “The Church...

... fared better recently than it did with earlier generations of readers, understanding of the play is still clouded by an inappropriate tendency to think about it in comparison with the other dramatizations of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac found in the cycles from York and Chester...

... TAURIS Perhaps more than anything else Iphigenie uuf Tauris is what I should like to call a meditation on sacrifice.4 The theme is wedded to that of death. The curse upon the house of Atreus is a grisly natural history of life sacrificed to lower drives: lust, jealousy, revenge. Iphigenia’s...

.... Her grief wore itself out. She forgave her brother-he was so much upset. But a day or two afterwards she was shocked. “Let’s make a sacrifice of Arabella,” he said. “Let’s burn her.” She was horrified, yet rather fascinated. She wanted to see what the boy would do. He made an altar...

... for that position from Christian teaching, it nevertheless struggled to accommodate the brutal ending of Christ’s own biography. While the Atonement might speak to believers in God’s mercy, what is just about the sacrifice of an innocent man in place of those who should have been punished? This anxiety arose...

... Association Review 31 [1980]: 39). On Kant’s sublime see Jeffrey Bar- nouw, “The Morality of the Sublime: Kant and Schiller,” Studies in Romanticism 19 (1980): 497 – 514; and Barbara Claire Freeman, “The Rise of the Sublime: Sacrifice and Misogyny in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics,” Yale Journal...

... on this occasion kindled his imagination. A propitious mood favored the plan, and in a few months (July 14-September 11, 1940) the drama was ~ritten,~a drama of the final sacrifice that had been avoided at Aulis through divine intercession, but which becomes voluntary now and fulfills the pronouncement...

... despised as inhuman (despite Johnson’s insistence) by the main ancient and medieval philosophers, any more than by Conrad. Animal passions may become despicable if pursued at the expense of more 92 CONRAD lasting good, as Willems sacrifices...

... of self-sacrifice, Hartmann says : man mohte wol gen6zen ir kintlich gemuete hin ze der engel guete. . . . (lines 464-66) That is, to quote Saran: “Man hatte gewiI3 ihren kindlich frommen Sinn der...

... to sacrifice her virtue; honor leads her to agree at least to the appearance of such a sacrifice; honor drives Sir Francis finally to make her his wife. But let us examine these concepts of honor and attitudes toward it a bit more closely. Mistress Frankford, around whom the action of the main...

... was, instinctively, less outspoken and truthful, more subtle, more reasoning. At the critical moment she is seized by a whirl of emotions, and, with very feminine but singularly unloverlike instinct, she resolves, as she would phrase it, to sacrifice herself, not seeing that she is insulting her...

... in his sinnes :4 (modifier) The wanton lover in a curious strain Can praise his fairest fair ; And with quaint metaphors her curlCd hair Curl o’re again.6 (modifier) 1 The Sacrifice,line 109. References to Herbert’s poems are to The Works...

... into the well form a syndrome around the concepts of sacrifice, disap- pearance and reappearance of a star, Adonis-Osiris, and a hermaphro- ditic god.g At first glance it would seem as if Joseph, who continues to imitate and “live a myth,” still has not freed himself from the collective consciousness...

... had broke my heart” (5-6). By the final stanza of the poem, the metaphor of musi- cal counterpoint becomes the means, as in “Easter,” through which the speaker liturgically reenacts Christ’s sacrifice in his heart, the site of his sigh which is also Christ’s sigh. Christ is “Constant unto” his...