...Martin Zirulnik Odd phrases—certain vaguely humorous idiomatic figures of speech—are far too instrumental in the narrative development of Crane's fiction to be considered incidental, though their precise role remains obscure. At times, particular phrases and figures even seem to exert a surreal...

... to a national readership" (20). Following Carlyle, novelists began to figure themselves as successors to the voices their own mediirm silenced, "promis[ing] to reconstitute [around themselves] a society of dispersed and isolated readers as a community on the order of an earlier organic speech community...

... in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europeaum . Trans. G.L. Ulmen New York: Telos, 2003 . Seeber , Edward D. “Critical Views on Logan’s Speech.” Journal of American Folklore 60.236 ( 1947 ): 130 –46. Trumpener , Katie . Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire...

.... Despite its brevity, Ahab’s intense encounter with Pip nonetheless figures in draft form a series of prototypically Melvillean dilemmas—the sovereign law’s relationship to radical innocence, the representational limits of slave insurrec- tion, the racial subcontract, the colonial specters of global...

... of substitution operates on so many levels that it shifts our attention from the stereotype of authoritarian power in the postcolony to contemporary authoritarianism in general. His use of figures of speech, including dead metaphors and clichés (a kind of linguistic undead), deterritorializes authoritarian power...

...” and which paled in comparison to Brown's passionate address at his trial (29). At the same time, Smith argues, the incendiary speech of Brown (and other “martyrs”) inaugurated new possibilities for fiction writers and poets: “In the story of the martyr, of innocence or righteousness condemned...

... nationalism of the men who praise Casement while castigating Leopold Bloom as ‘‘a perverted jew’’ (101). Noting that ‘‘Casement and Bloom dissolve into the same figure’’ in a telling confusion of pronouns, Mullen argues that Casement’s queer cosmopolitanism inflects Bloom’s famous speech on love...

..., for instance, ends his very fine discussion of Winesburg, Ohio with the proposal that in the end George Willard emerges as “the very figure of the story­ teller that Benjamin sees as being lost in the modern world” (125). Close atten- tion to the text itself, however, demonstrates that the primary theme...

... Bergotte's family, his intellectual and social development, and his networks of acquaintances. The narrator's extensive research program has included not only reading but actually going to hear the speech of key figures of Bergotte's past. We can imagine that he wanted to listen to the speech of Bergotte...

... roles in conversation and in the idiosyncrasies of speech. The project of What Proust Heard is at once to analyze that narrative mode and to inculcate in the reader a novelistic form of attention to talk and to the social patterns that are revealed and enacted in talk. Two metadiscourses meet...

... relations between persuasion and coercion, hegemony and domination, at work in the administration of the British Empire. The 2022 review was not the first time Section 124a attracted criticism and scrutiny. To the contrary, the law figured prominently in the suppression of anticolonial activities well...

... . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Bakhtin , M.M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Trans. Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Bakhtin , M.M. Speech Genres and Other...

....” Washington Post 7 March 2011 < http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/03/arab_cartoons.html >. Cole Juan . “Reactions to Obama's Speech.” Informed Comment 5 June 2009 < http://www.juancole.com/2009/06/reactions-to-obamas-speech.html >. Edwards Brian T...

... in Portrait of a Lady.21 If speech, or even thought, about oneself ceases 20 The extent to which Merton particularly has succeeded, perhaps unconsciously, in turning Milly into a linguistic or semantic figure by the end of the novel is indicated by the shocking pun on Milly’s name...

... should encourage nonlinear (or, more to the point, reverberant) thinking: much of the monograph's later philosophical hypothesizing and sonic figuration enlivens earlier points of similarity. The theoretical stakes of the project are as grand and challenging as these diverse lines of inquiry imply...

... is a public theatrical performance, striving to assert its own identity against the ministrations of worldly powers such as censors, diplomats, and audiences. The libretto engages such figures on a small scale. For example, the world of the town of Titipu is incorporated into the familiar world of 1880s...

...Kent Puckett This essay asks why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would feature something as practically political as a caucus. After nearly drowning in Alice's tears, the Dodo suggests to her and other animals “that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” In order to figure out what...

... in colonial notions of political rheto- ric and speech" in order to show how "colonial speakers crafted the figure of the 'conti- nent' as a discursive vehicle that allowed for the individual and collective expression of a different, American selfhood" (15). Chapter 3 examines the role of geographic...

... differentiates between those who feel and those about 7u?iom they feel may not be news to those who have studied anti-slavery literature. But with this book, Festa contributes a probing interrogation of the "distinction of sentimental feeling" and a wide-ranging analysis of the figures of speech...

.... These competing readings are worth examining further for what they reveal about competing judgments in Eliot's novels. Gwendolen may indeed be read as a negative example; yet, as Eliot herself recognizes, the functions of the pharmakos figure in life and literature have a complicated relationship to morality...