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...William Viestenz Abstract This article analyzes two Catalan novels, Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Victus: Barcelona 1714 (2012) and Martí Domínguez’s L’esperit del temps (2019), in light of the concept of immunity developed by the Italian theorist Roberto Esposito. It is argued that the two works share...

... fashion items for sale, helping the manteros to survive in the neoliberal economy that marginalizes them even as it inscribes them within it. In “Skin to Skin: Immune System Discourse in Twenty-First-Century Catalan Narrative,” William Viestenz analyzes two recent Catalan historical novels—Albert...

... appears more and more as a place immune from change, outside history, where life repeats itself. 6 Just by seeing the tavern, he is able to predict that Zio Santoro will shortly open the door and sit outside it to begin his day. After a last look at the sea, ’Ntoni picks up his bag: “Now it’s time...

... the redoubtable First Eunuch has died and been replaced by the ineffectual, aging Narsit. Solim describes a ­wives-­gone-wild scenario, although he insists that Roxane and Roxane alone has remained immune to the general moral breakdown. One shocking revelation concerns a recent sojourn to one of Usbek s country...

... po­litic­ al corruption, would remain pure and honest (Schiller 29). Metternich s Censors 113 Schiller is cautious about the usefulness of the state in protecting and warranting the rights to cultivation, and he warns against the ­human abuse of the arts or the sciences, declaring the two domains immune...

... the challenge a widespread frustration with the limitations of language to convey the practical or embodied knowledge of manual operations (Smith, Body ; Smith, From Lived Experience ; Vérin). Sigüenza is certainly not immune to the task’s many difficulties, and he sometimes doubts his readers will be able...

... are progressively discerned. According to Deleuze and Guattari, literature provides free play for the creation of affect precisely because it allows for the formation of impersonal forces (fear, desire, joy) which can remain immune from the stock cause-andeffect responses of quotidian existence. In everyday life...

.... Suffice it to say for now that the interest and specificity of this involuted discourse rest in more than the observation that anti-anti-Semitism is not always immune to what it seeks to denounce. 1 The choice of anti-Semitism as foil also provided key conceptual scaffolding to those who in the nineteenth...

... into anonymity after the war. But Tarantino makes it difficult to sustain this somewhat "smooth" argument, for he also has Raine commit a totally unmotivated and unjustifiable act of killing in this scene: Raine shoots Landa's radio operator, who was supposed to get immunity along with Landa in the latter's...

... that one of the primary by-products of subjective demonization is violence. Nevertheless, what makes Conde's novel so powerful is her insight that no one, not even the past victims of violence are immune from recreating such violence themselves. Once the Other has been designated, violence becomes the mode...

... were themselves not immune to fantasmatic projections, such a question is difficult to answer with certainty. Anecdotes provide some evidence. We know, for example, that there were Jews among the upper crust of the capital's courtesans, who may have provided models for Balzac's Esther or Josepha...

... and metaphorical importance of wartime literature, will lead to an understanding of Aragon's message. The question of censorship remains, however. Aragon could not have expected the censors to be immune to the sociopolitical forces that made the literary atmosphere so highly charged with political allegory...

... that there are objectively knowable truths about the material world that are immune to variation ( Inquiry 20). In its place, he proposes a model of ontological pluralism, by which he means the coexistence of a variety of systems in which different phenomena, objects, and access routes to reality intermingle. This approach...

... consciousness to wash the slime of contingent existence from him. He will do this by creating something, like the melody of the song, "qui n'existerait pas, qui serait au-dessus de l'existence" (249); that is, he will create something without material sub- 288 JENNIFER WILLGING stance which will thus be immune...

... prophetic vision. When Florent-Claude revises Lamartine’s famous verse by replacing depopulated with dead , the self and others become perfectly isolated ceramic figurines, hermetically sealed to the thermic and electric forces that could otherwise stir and connect them—immune to, or rather, forever...

... nello stesso modo, non generata, ne peritura, una seconda specie del medesimo nome e simile ad essa, sensibile, generata, agitata sempre, e v'e poi una terza specie sempre esistente, quella dello spazio, la quale e immune da distruzione, e da sede a tutte Ie cose che hanno nascimento." "Memoria, fluido...