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...Lieven Ameel Abstract This article examines narrative engagement with strange weather and rising waters in Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank with You (2014). It applies three terms from climate policy— adaptation , retreat , and mitigation —as heuristic concepts to approach the formal responses...

... but also by Poles, including Poles with whom he had grown up. He also received lifesaving help from Poles he had known before the war. After the Germans retreated from Poland, Salsitz, posing as a Catholic Pole, served as a high-ranking Polish officer before leaving Poland. In the memoirs Against All...

... the wall of language.Then I retreat with my head bleeding. And want to go on Beckett has described this situa- tion in virtually the same words (see below).Wittgenstein (1999: 301; Philoso- phische Untersuchungen 119), in a similar vein, refers to the results of philosophy as ‘‘the discovery of any...

... stark, more revelatory in Dabashi's perspective. These modernists are effectively at odds with Hollywood film—yet they veer toward narrative fantasy, in fact enjoying the retreat offered “in the privacy of their own minds, in their letters, in their red velvet seats” (30) to observe ontological...

... by the logic of the tango. As a thematic and formal enactment of this poetics, the dance not only hovers between touching/connection and retreat/disconnection. The different tangos also function as nodes that offer specific intertextual perspectives on the marriage. In this way, the tango delays the inevitable...

... [1973] 1994: 3). The room towhich he retreats tests the limits of silence: The room s tensions were suitable to few enterprises besides my own, that of testing the depths of silence. Or one s willingness to be silent. Or one s fear of this willingness (25). And that room is reminiscent of another...

... the pamphlet Bagatelles pour un massacre, wholeheartedly defend- ing the higher importance of politics over literature and art. Artaud, at the same time, chose to retreat to the asylum of Rodez, thus effectively avoid- ing to take sides. Roussin’s reading of Bagatelles stresses its claim to authen- ticity...

.... 24 But now I only hear 25 Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, 26 Retreating, to the breath 27 Of the night-wind,­ down the vast edges drear 28 And naked shingles of the world. 29 Ah, love, let us be true 30 To one another! for the world...

... TakeoMagruder. In Visions of Our Communal Dreams (2012), Takeo explores the theological implications of the coder qua creator. Rather than retreating from reality, this virtual simulation models a process of collaborative world building that can be downloaded, so to speak, into the real world. Of course, just...

... formally innovative experiments. They demonstrate a “retreat from the extreme playfulness . . . and the emphasis on textuality and difficulty” (Eaglestone 2013 : 14) and prefer “a more stylistically translucent representation of the world” (McLaughlin 2012 : 216). Nevertheless, contemporary fiction...

... a hasty retreat, and Zhuge s city is spared a bloodbath. In such mental brinksmanship, the loser is he who stops scaling the heights of mental embedment. Such feats of psychological derring-do abound in the novel, almost all of which hang on Zhuge s Machiavellian apprehension of other minds.7 Romance...

... of a text. As such, they maintain a hidden dimension that is inaccessible, even if it is apparent in plain sight. For example, the sentence above could be interpreted in two ways: (1) Saeed could imagine a realistic scenario in which his father could have said this sentence but retreated because of feelings...

... 10.1215/03335372-7974156 q 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics Whymust Catherine account for her desires at all?Why cannot she simply retreat with Heathcliff to a world of two, radiating together in unspoken feeling? The reason is that, however much lovers might wish to jettison the world...

... one goal was an exchange about content, Britt's read-a-thons concentrate purely on a synchronization of the activity itself. The reading binges presented in a video like “Super Successful Reading Day,” on the one hand portray reading as a retreat from sociality, while on the other, through the medium...

... way for the new.” Rather, postmodernism seems “to be in retreat.” This retreat does, to her way of thinking, inspire hope for the near future of fiction: as Gibbons ( 2019 ) concludes, “This new literature can, in good faith, examine complex and ever-shifting crises . . . to which it is easy to close...

... surroundings, these generous feelings are quickly supplanted by the pain of anxiety, by jealousy and possessiveness, and especially, after the two arrive at the country retreat where Bradley had initially planned a solitary vacation, by overwhelming and obsessive con- cern about sexual performance...

... by the statue (Houellebecq 2016: 139). In addition, although Franc oismay protest that he has been fully deserted by the Spirit (139), a few chapters later we find him embarking on a retreat to the Benedictine monastery at Liguge´ Abbey. This retreat appears as a response to a particularly acute phase...

... ) explains, emerge from “a unique formal and structural design” that “compels us to retreat from a culture of speed” and “observ[e] details that would remain veiled or merely implied by a swifter form of narration.” Slow cinema forces viewers accustomed to fast-paced pleasure to attune their attentional...

.... I remembered it as a compel- ling, dramatic scene—a fantastic glimpse into a primitive and silent past forever preserved in a small, dark hall in Cape Town. Many years later I hiked in the Poelela river valley in the Drakensberg Mountains and slept in the caves that were the last retreat...

... the universal and toward the particular. This struggle finds its culmination in the princess’s extraordinary confession to her husband of her love for the Duc de Nemours and her final retreat to a monastery after her husband has died of jealousy, moral actions that the contemporaries of Lafa- yette...