...Liran Razinsky This essay examines Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones ( Les bienveillantes ) as a project of bearing witness. It turns a critical eye on the role played by the poetics of excess and transgression, on the novel's historical aspects (dates, events, and other details...

...Colton Valentine Abstract Decadence eludes definition, but critics tend to concur on the movement’s transgressive and uncommercial status in the British literary field. This essay questions those associations by exploring a current of archetypal decadent French novels translated by and marketed...

... who, during Russian colonial expansion into the Caucasus, became a Robin Hood figure of resistance, thereby gaining “transgressive sanctity.” Gould begins with Vara, an early Chechen abrek who waged war against the tsar when his local Sufi leader, Kunta Hajji, was imprisoned and his unarmed fellow...

... of transgression and its constant crossing of lines and demar- cated limits. In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, Foucault describes this relation between transgression and limit: “Transgression is an action which involves the limit, that narrow zone of a line where it dis- plays the flash of its...

... of a “pervasive cultural association of women and madness.”3 Lyn Pykett argues that in opening up the transgressive domain of the improper feminine, the sensation novel can also func- tion as a form of political activism.4 The centrality of female insanity in Victorian fiction is the subject of much recent...

..., yet in a way that can inform secular theories of freedom. In these poems positive law, largely understood as divine law, tends to solicit its own transgression in the absence of grace, so the poems share little with republican thinking. Vaughan, after all, was a staunch royalist, and Donne...

... cultures. Dol- limore describes how sexual dissidence operates as a “paradoxical perverse” or “perverse dynamic” (p. 33), a force that subverts normative worlds the more insidiously and effectively by undermining them from within. On the history and theory of transgression, Dollimore is at his most...

... on the aesthetics of transgression in Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Arthur Symons and is working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Salome's Modernity: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Transgression . “The Brutal Music and the Delicate Text”? The Aesthetic Relationship between Wilde’s...

... love leads him to embrace the prospect of death. Though not yet published, the second novel in the trilogy may shed further light on the development of the siblings’ relationship. 10 The occurrence of both episodes in cabins in California underscores the pattern of Aberant’s transgressive acts...

... transgressing against the officially sanctioned History. Yet when Mao Dun was writing his first narratives ( 1927- 28), his status within the Party qualified him ex officio as a writer of History. Furthermore, given the embryonic state of the Party in the 1920s and the chaos after the failed...

... of the anthropologist Mary Douglas in Purity and Danger implies that this association is by no means unique. Citing Sartre’s brilliant descrip- tion and analysis of stickiness in Being and Nothingness, she suggests that viscosity represents the transgression of boundaries...

... to Shakespeare . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Dollimore Jonathan . 1985 . “Transgression and Surveillance in Measure for Measure.” In Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism , edited by Dollimore Jonathan Sinfield Alan , 72 – 87 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell...

... of transgressions against the order that this ideology supports. For all its persuasiveness, Cascardi’s interpretation inevitably raises objections because it is based on the primacy of caste distinctions. According to Cascardi, Don Juan’s transgression of bloodlines under- mines “the very basis...

... transgressive capacity of individual works to at once embody and exceed the predictive categories they enable. Yet for all the staying power of genre, we would not be having the discussion here if all that the concept conferred were benefits. Indeed, to understand the advantages that ensue from...

... of the shameless pleasures of the novel of amatory intrigue, which, through its seriality, its myths of transgression and assertion of authority (political and textual), and its plot-driven narrative, turn the novel into “an entertainment machine” (166). Following Penelope...

... of amatory intrigue, which, through its seriality, its myths of transgression and assertion of authority (political and textual), and its plot-driven narrative, turn the novel into “an entertainment machine” (166). Following Penelope Aubin’s concerted effort to shape...

... of amatory intrigue, which, through its seriality, its myths of transgression and assertion of authority (political and textual), and its plot-driven narrative, turn the novel into “an entertainment machine” (166). Following Penelope Aubin’s concerted effort to shape...

... of amatory intrigue, which, through its seriality, its myths of transgression and assertion of authority (political and textual), and its plot-driven narrative, turn the novel into “an entertainment machine” (166). Following Penelope Aubin’s concerted effort to shape...

... a foule darke shape of Apostacie. Thereof speaketh Dumas. li. 1. Chap. 18 He was of the creator made light, and by his owne will he became darknesse.. . .18 Vondel cited St. Bernard’s comment on Lucifer’s degeneration : “The source of all transgression is pride, which hath overcast...

... rarely moralizes, an earlier generation of critics thought him immoral or morally neutral. Schoenbaum, following T. S. Eliot, holds that Middleton’s treatment of moral problems is a vital part of his tragic genius ; his world is permeated by an irresistible moral order, and to transgress...