...Douglas Morrey Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of “declinism” in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics...

... Victorian fiction. The point is once more that, for Jones, being emo- tionally involved in or accepting a given situation does not mean that one does not understand what is happening or even that one approves of it. To repeat the quotation from Jones, “despite our submission to the novel...

... qualities as a writer. What strikes a reader when reading this sentence, especially when con- sidered in isolation, is the total dedication that it expresses, to the point of utter submission and absolute readiness for self-denying sacrifice. One can- not imagine a more powerfully ultimate act...

... criticism with opportunities for further development. Greenblatt defines self-fashioning as the strategic formation of the self by the self. In the sixteenth century this involved some negotiation between submission to an absolute power situated outside the self (and the correlative crafting of identity...

.... This reveals the extent to which Utsugi's double disenfranchisement (first in the form of painful disability due to age, and second in his adoption of a masochistic position of vulnerable submission) does not, in fact, result in a reduction of his authority. Thus, Frida Beckman ( 2010 : 97) contends...

... brother Lucio has been disguised as a girl to prevent the family’s enemies from wreaking their revenge upon the helpless male child. Thus, Clara is bold and fearless, while her brother is timorous and submissive. Though both willingly accede to their parents’ wish that they now revert to their sexes...

..., showing how diverse locations give shape to distinct postsecularities. When, for example, Michel Houellebecq imagines an Islamic takeover of French politics in his novel Soumission (Submission), that imagining itself presupposes a dogmatic understanding of la ¨cite´, which pertains to a more francophone...

... by the screenwriters’ and actors’ strikes, the number of television dramas submitted for Emmy consideration by networks and streaming services dropped by 5 percent, with limited series and comedy submissions declining even more radically by 16 and 19 percent, respectively (Koblin 2024 ). The economic exigencies...

... that we most often do, whether in our scholarly, administrative, or pedagogical pursuits. Already major academic journals report a deluge of submissions written in whole or in part by generative AI, their pedigree sometimes as obvious as the residual phrase “As a large language model, I . . . ” (Hoover...

... to educe: a sense of how submission to an extant pattern can satisfy human needs far beyond passive suffering or hidebound tradition. ...

... faith in reason. According to Eshel, Celan's and Pagis's poems fluctuate between uncertainty and existential doubt, and their call for justice is set against an absurd reality. The two authors’ recognition of a godless world is by no means a submission to arbitrary life, but it serves as a foundation...

.... But why shouldn't equal potential be ascribed to a well-trained AI that can generate thousands of poems in an hour, a handful of which might be worthy of judges’ attention? If judges can assess the quality of poems submitted by anonymous authors, why shouldn't they give equal weight to submissions...

... every authority which issues commands (or seeks to seduce), seeming to require submission and the relinquish- ment of full readerly autonomy and reason. This is a reading supported by Theodor Adorno (1964: 71), who, noting the centrality in Rilke’s Duino Ele- gies of the notion that experience...

... the beginning, without any attempt to transcend or transmute these given ‘social facts’ into artistically persuasive works of fic- tion Nkosi suggests that black writing forfeits its properly literary status by a kind of premature submission to the exigency of what I have been calling urgency.Whereas...

... s arrival at Medina, the narrative shows him torn between moments of submission and of doubt, of transcendence and its failure. While his Arabian travel companions proclaim the sight of Medina to be the greatest happiness on earth, Burton/Abdullah remains standing on the ridge for a long time...

... are men like my own little father” (81). Novak’s father, it turns out, is the paragon of submissive self- adjustment: he successively adapts to each new shift in his native land’s control of political power in a desire to preserve not only his own well- being but that of his whole nation...

... such as Hate Week and the Two Minutes’ Hate demonstrate how submission to the power of the party is now constantly reinscribed, but the party’s desire for ever-increasing power does not tell us anything about how it gained power and solidified its position in the first place. These changes and the question...

... future their sons will build, the women’s very biology protests, and through excess of submission they commit themselves to the end of the world. George McKay (1996: 198) finds this depiction to be “a biologic essentialism, in which women’s bodily functions, the sole aspect for which they are valued...

... or friendly), ‘Esau said, I had a meeting with them 512 Poetics Today 25:3 eight kings of his descendants before yours’’ (Genesis Rabbah 75:11). On the other hand, the rabbis were sufficiently engaged in realpolitik to know that sometimes their survival depended upon their submissive behavior...

... discontinuity—quasi-automatically obtains its generic stamp (although such criteria can be instrumental to its enactment); rather, it is artistic discourse that ‘‘produces or reproduces a relation of submission to an authoritative language...