..., or at least with a very dull one” (247). The ancient Greek novels were blithely consigned to the category of romance, as though the adventures they recounted were on a par with Treasure Island (though why that, even if true, should count against them, begs an answer). In the twentieth century, Mikhail...

... negotiate the determinism of the DNA that gives him the condition of hermaphroditism), economic (the family fortunes sit precariously atop Detroit in the 1970s), racial (the immigrants “become white”), and cultural (she/he is Greek American). The novel uses new biological epistemologies to alleviate both...

... account, Woolf’s lifelong interest in the Greeks was but part of her fascination with meaning’s migration among languages, which gave her writing special expressive power and pivotal political significance. Woolf’s encounters with Greek and Russian as a translator and a publisher have long been...

... and the contemporary—Percy’s drowning, Byron’s death in the Greek wars (which still mysteriously rage in the time of the novel)—all the more overwhelming because unfixed in anything resembling a legible historical sequence. This is not a novel of mourning, then, but of melancholia, with Shelley sealing off her...

... dialogues to identify the life of the mind with male homosexual eroticism. Styled after ancient Greek paiderastia, as an affective model for the intellectual life it appeared to do little to facilitate participation by women. Juxtaposing modem Europe and ancient Greece, Schreiner's later writing...

... puts it, “[W]e must not mea- sure Jesus’ [Semitic] manner of speaking according to our”—that is, “japhetic” or Indo-European—“understanding of rhetoric and homelitics” (119–20). Moreover, Delitzsch’s Jesus speaks Hebrew, not Greek, Latin, or Aramaic. This issue, in fact, remained a contentious...

... Etymologically, parabasis is a going aside, digression, or stepping forward. In Greek Old Comedy it is the practice of the chorus coming forward to address the audience on a topic unrelated to the theme of the play. According to de Man, “Parabasis is the interruption of a discourse by a shift...

..., rather than merely a devout representative of the church, he reminds us of the Greek classical association of divinity with "wandering" in the term for philosophical truth, aletheia, which is derived from the Greek roots, "alea" and "thea," and may be approximately translated as the "wandering...

..., contracting an artisan to bind them. Along with her other arts (Greek statuary and inexpensive photographs), the new New Testament testifies to her free thinking, her thinking it possible to free the word from its binding, to craft new representations—and even new laws—from the matter of the old. 16...

...” as the defining affect that accompanies the violation of a moral norm) in the recent anti-austerity movements that organized around that term: the Spanish anti-austerity movement of 2011 and 2012, the Indignados, and the Greek version, the Kίνημα Aγανακτισμένων Πoλιτών, Kínima Aganaktisménon-Politón...

.... Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Barret, William, trans. Heliodorus His Aethiopian History: Done Out of Greeke . London, 1622 . Brown , Homer Obed . Institutions of the English Novel from Defoe to Scott . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997...

... with their lost, hazy origins than the fact that they come from elsewhere. These novels are organized by stories of love in marriage that were imported from Asia and had no sociologi- cal referent in Greek culture; such stories were “a fully formed artistic entity” but one that had “virtually...

... in Eighteenth Century England . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989 . Nussbaum , Martha Craven . The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001 . Oberman , Heiko A. “The Pursuit of Happiness: Calvin between Humanism and Reformation...

... are prolific misreaders of external signs through which they try to make the supernatural manifest, and I will demonstrate how the novel redraws the metaphysical limits of the novel form constitutive of everyday life to include the larger cosmological implications that are the provenance of Greek tragedy...

... in Greek tragedy was to mediate the relations between characters onstage and a wider, unrepresented audience and polity. 9 As a mode of collective representation, choruses, and not only tragic ones, are uniquely performative, as Steven Connor describes: “[This] collectivity cannot be thought...

... dominated by the colonial relationship with England and addressed to the English.' Some of the postcolonial group argue that the relationship has from the first been hierarchical: they instance the debate Edmund Spenser borrowed from a dialogue by the Greek, Lucian, that of Civility versus...

... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Contributors VIVASVAN %>MI is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity, which uses Greek...

... prophecy (252-53). For Mungo, the ultimate proof that England and Africa exist on a continuous moral plain is the fact of his mysterious heritage, the result of "a battalion of Greek marauders of old who had wandered off path from North Africa and somehow ended up hundreds of miles away...

..., implicitly or explicitly, the once-standard notion of the novel as a form de- veloping in Britain and France in the eighteenth century. There are essays on the devel- opment of the novel, essays that explore ancient Greek and Indian and Arabic forms analogous to the novel, readings of specific novels...

...- ized that if one is not mindful of its archaic sense, the idea of spirituality is subject to misunderstanding. Indeed, the significance of ancient philosophy to Woolf’s thought is rarely acknowledged. “How powerful that spell is still—Greek,” Woolf writes in 1934. “Thank heaven I learnt it young...