...Patrick O'Donnell Phelan concludes Somebody Telling Somebody Else with several evocative “reflections on the project of rhetorical poetics” (257). It is, self-admittedly, a project still under construction, yet much of the foundational work (and a good deal of its building-out) have been...

.... Bowen Ralph H. . Chicago : Lakeside , 1974 – 75 . Dickens Charles . American Notes . 1842 . New York : Penguin , 2000 . Dickens Charles . David Copperfield . 1850 . New York : Penguin , 1996 . Dickens Charles . “ His Brown Paper Parcel .” Somebody’s Luggage...

... inches and somebody on the other end exclaimed, ‘Neigh- bors, have ye got room for a few new-born lambs (95). When Gabriel then enters, the lambs hang in “embarrassing attitudes” around his shoulders. What seems embarrassing here is in part the undermining of the primacy or priority of the human...

... . Toronto: Broadview, 1996 . ———. Little Dorrit . Ed. Small , Helen and Stephen Wall. London: Penguin, 2004 . ———. “Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody.” Household Words 30 Aug. 1856. Rpt. in Dickens' Journalism, Vol. 3:“Gone Astray” and Other Papers from Household Words, 1851–59 . Ed...

..., as Trevor Phillips did with Gunst, because he feels “somebody should put all of this craziness together, because no Jamaican can do it, brother, either we too close or somebody going to stop we” ( James 568 ). And Pierce runs the very danger that the real Trevor Phillips ran, miraculously surviving one...

... smile, my words everything about me was there as a whole. I could be both respectable and unworthy of respect, both perfect and flawed, both dressed and naked. Both woman and human’’ (189). Aysel finally realizes that she is flesh and blood, somebody who is not just a ‘‘pile of ideas as she used...

... a country—but most of us, we just do our individual jobs and we offer up our little contribution to somebody upstairs. . . . I think this is the powerless kind of situation that many of us are in . . . we live in small worlds and we contribute to some bigger world upstairs. ( Farley ; emphasis added...

... somebody else's shoulders, I finally decided, after much to-and-fro, against framing my review as a letter to the four authors. I have been second-guessing that decision; likewise my decision to refer to the authors as Chihaya, Emre, Hill, and Richards, instead of taking my cue from their letters...

... the absence of the very social determinations that make Emma who she is: “Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody. Somebody had placed her, several years back, at Mrs. Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour-boarder. This was all...

..., the novel literally can bring all spaces and times within itself. Joseph Conrad's plots and narratives unfold within different locations in time and space. The same event can be talked about by somebody located in a different corner of the world at a time long after its occurrence; the same event can...

... of the way things are, of taking things for granted in the interest of practical deliberation. “I think one always does take things for granted until somebody proves that it is not so,” says Mrs. Houghton (200; pt. 2). She is speaking about the presumption of legitimacy of her nephew but might as well...

... IN TESS 99 at this moment, on its way: “‘Why don’t somebody tell him all about me?’ she said. ‘It was only forty miles off—why hasn’t it reached here? Somebody must know (252). It is at this point that Hardy’s narrator weighs in with a sense of tragic emphasis: “Yet nobody seemed to know...

... somebody else’s present, and it is usually past. The novel’s now is conventionally tensed as the past but decoded by the reader as a kind of present, encoding in tense a relationship between a present moment and some future moment from which it will be narrated. In the middle section of this essay...

... to lose no time, lest somebody else should come in. They were obliged to move. Anne talked of being perfectly ready, and tried to look it. . . . (225; emphasis added) Austen sets the temporal registers in wrenching competition, with the result that there is no time, almost no tense...

.... In her account of the rise of the novel, Catherine Gallagher suggests that the crucial difference between the roman b clef and the new style of fiction was that the former were about Somebody while the latter were about Nobody. It could also be that where the older form preserved the social...

... Slavoj . Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the (Mis) Use of a Notion . 2nd ed. New York : Verso , 2011 . ...

... there?” Clym asked. “No—not a bit in the world. Now they are all holding up their glasses and drink- ing somebody’s health.” “I wonder if it is mine?” “No—’tis Mr. and Mrs. Venn’s.” (387) What would it look like, one wonders, if they did care? How would a toast to Clym look different...

..., but it is clearly not the narrator. At the same time that art seems to make us aware of who we “really” are, therefore, it also makes us experience that self as if it belonged to somebody else. And, of course, this seems to be precisely the point, for this vicariousness, self-alienation, or internal...

...: Beacon, 1994 . Bernstein , Michael Andre . “The Poetics of Ressentiment.” Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges . Ed. Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1989 . 197 –223. Buettner , Elizabeth . “From Somebodies to Nobodies: Britons Returning Home...

... with the continent. We were a small part of somebody else's "overview": tve were part first of the Spanish story, then of the British story. Perhaps the school histories could be written in no other way. We were, after all, a small agricultural colony; and we couldn't say we had done much I grew...