...Ali Behdad Ali Behdad REMEMBERING ROSS, THE KYNIC In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk makes a distinction between modern cynicism, which he defines as an enlightened form of false consciousness, and the original kynical (literally, doglike ) protest by figures like Diogenes...

...Christy Wampole ________ If I am asking my colleagues to tell what they think we should be doing, I should also offer up an answer. I wrote a draft of this introduction and asked a trustworthy reader to have a look and offer an opinion. It was entirely too cynical, he thought. And he...

..., my love, that sudden ­thing we found one summer morning, at the turn of our path, a loathsome corpse lying on a bed of stones? Beneath the stiffened legs raised sensuously where poison flesh perspired with cynical and quiet regard its belly opened wide. The sun, as though to roast it to a turn...

..., then, that these novelists all use modernist techniques such as monologue interieur, mise en abyme, parody, pastiche, and stylistic experimentation in order to carve a new path for the novel, to test the limits of both symbolism and realism. Gourmont, for whom the "dissociation de l'idee d'idealisme" (167) leads to cynicism...

... on withdrawal from literary activity or to destabilize the latter’s aura as the quintessential incarnation of individual genius. At the same time, Jullien draws from this configuration to address the otherworldly character of beauty in Marguerite Yourcenar, the foundational role of cynicism in modern art...

... contemporaine, it would appear that Balzac again had the prize in mind. Guichardet in her notes to the Pléiade edition draws attention to a number of letters from 1841 to 1842 in which the new proj­ect is associated with it. To be sure, ­these moments are somewhat cynically turned: in June 1841, Balzac told Mme...

... à thèse , the repeated assertion that these works “take no firm ideological position” (183) minimizes how irony is cynically deployed in the populist rhetoric of the contemporary alt-right, offering plausible deniability to political content that is potentially offensive or violent. Before becoming the prophet...

... diverge from the global cynicism of La Rochefoucauld” (41). 15. In a letter to Sablé (December 5, 1660), La Rochefoucauld writes of her friend Madame de Maure: “J’avais toujours bien cru que Madame la Comtesse de Maure condamnerait l’intention des sentences et qu’elle se déclarerait pour la vérité...

..., formulaic primitivism, it is also a genre devoted to a radical critique of decorum—which is to say, to the critique of social norms and categories, in particular those that regulate class, gender, and sexuality. “The spirit of cynicism that scholars have mistakenly associated with farce for centuries...

... encore" (489). It is this blend of cynicism vis-a-vis the "myth" of revolution on the one hand, and desire for escape in the romantic dramatization of combat on the other, that inspires, I believe, the oscillation between graphic descriptions in L'Espoir that detail the horrors and real catastrophes...

..., a desire for "strength of will and faith in our holy cause" that is no longer credible in an age of cynicism. What emerges from this overview is that Agilulfo appears as a figure of nostalgia; he is fundamentally anachronistic and out of place. This is particularly true for the other knights within...

.... As Louisa Shea has shown, he tries on the figure of both Seneca and Diogenes, the cynic philosopher who does not DANIEL BREWER shy from speaking truth to power even at the risk of personal comfort and security. As Jean Seznec has shown, Diderot's relation to antiquity was deep and vital...

.... As far as I know, this is entirely false. His attitude toward America and the English language struck me as being very like that of Vladimir Nabokov, another cynical European who reveled in Americanness, and a writer he unaccountably disliked, although it now occurs to me that it was perhaps...

...” [ Poésies 410, line 88]) is explicitly mapped onto the discord of the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns: Cochon traces his genealogy to the ancient Cynics, so called for their doglike ways, and so represents the ancients in the quarrel. Grisette explicitly identifies herself as a modern, by tracing...

... many months. According to Yves Benot, what was really at stake in this debate, at least for Diderot, was not a concern for personal recognition. Far more important to him was to defend the political agency of the writer against the cynicism induced in others by the system of materialism that he too...

... of Laferriere's writing. In contrast to Maryse Conde whose treatment of eroticism tends to go unnoticed, some have been tempted to see Laferriere's frequent literary evocations of sexuality as cynical and commercial. 14 It might be more useful to see sexuality as a practice of freedom, desire for disorder, along...

... to the suicidal logics of global capitalism, and/or provide an affordable gymnastics training us to become successful among the young sharks of the creative class. Such contradictory and overambitious goals have provided an understandable backlash among more realistic, cautious, or cynical colleagues. Phil Watts...

... politics of his day, on plague, on skepticism and cynicism that grows with age. As the copyist of his own and others’ works, however, Boccaccio the cultural entrepreneur understood the tenuousness of the relationship between thought and material expression and likely believed that interpretation...

... add, is almost totally lacking in his landmark 1913 preface) are his 21. "Eloge de la variante," Langages 17e annee, no. 69 (1983): 25-35; 33. 22. Quotations from La Tradition manuscrite 68-9. DAVID F. HULT irreverence and the humor that results from it. A cynical streak that one can detect building...

... account of the plucking reads like the work of a cynical old cleric.6 How we understand the construction of the composite persona affects how we interpret his character. The proper use of repetition is, according to Geoffrey ofVinsauf, to provide a pleasing variety in the amplification of a single thought...