...Richard D. Altick Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 MARK TWAIN S DESPAIR: AN EXPLANATION IN TERMS OF HIS HUMANITY RICHARD D. ALTICK IN MAKING a study of Mark Twain one will inevitably encounter the problem of his despair. An examination of the possible causes of his surprising...

...Eugen Guerster Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 AN ADVENTURE IN DESPAIR EUGEN GUERSTER ERNST JUNGER was born in Heidelberg in 1895, son of a chemist. Once he called himself the great-grandson of an idealistic, the grandson of a romantic, and the son of a materialistic...

...Jane Perry Clark Carey; Andrew Galbraith Carey Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE SOUTH OF ITALY OLD DESPAIR AND NEW HOPE Jane Perry Clark Carey and Andrew Galbraith Carey TOURISTS seldom venture further south on the Italian main­ land than Naples with its vivid color...

...Kelley Walker This essay explores the varied reactions of several activists to the first two years of Barack Obama's administration. While their responses vary from resignation to despair to anger, none engages in a spirited defense of the administration. What unites them is a shared assumption...

... colonization. This biopolitical strategy of resistance views the act of self-destruction as paradoxically enabling the continuation of communal life; the decision to terminate an individual life, then, represents an affirmation of Palestinian communal life as it resists defeat, despair, and humiliation. ©...

... on the emancipatory potential of anti-austerity movements, arguing that they contribute to personal and social empowerment, as well as to radical democratization. The article suggests that the recent protests against austerity indicate that there is room not only for despair but also for hope. © 2014 Duke...

... arrangements. The existential thinker is interested in psychological problems. Kierkegaard was preoccupied with subjective life; with passion, hope, dread, despair, faith, and doubt. He devotes a great deal of atten- 102 The South Atlantic Quarterly tion to the critique of the aesthetic way of life...

... with it, and I used to teach to love it. For the average Victorian the poem was the great affirmation, a record of the triumphant journey of the soul from despair to faith, a treatise that gathered up all the doubts of Christianity, of provi­ dence, of immortality, which the advance of science had implanted 76...

... in social engineering are doomed to frustration and despair, for they overlook the existence and power of an evil that corrupts not only political action but all human action. Politics, Professor Morgenthau declares, is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery...

... world, who hoisted the black flag and declared war upon everything that had been dear to Western man. What makes him a momentous figure in the history of modern thought is that he alone descended into the depth of despair and yet proclaimed the intrinsic value of life. His aim was not less life, nor...

.... And yet no writer can afford to dispense with the crucial concept of the freedom of the will. Indeed, all literature is based on this fundamental belief. Life cannot be lived for long on the animal or vegetative level. Action for the sake of action leads to the impasse of despair, an attack of cosmic...

.... At the time of writing, however, Bunyan was perfectly aware of how irrational his feelings had been that Sunday afternoon. Satan, he says, stilly and slily supplieth [some men] with such despair, that though not much guilt attendeth Souls, yet they continually have a secret conclusion within them...

... to be published in this country that stems from the philosophy of existentialism that has be­ come the current European fad in the realm of ideas. That accounts for its novelty and also for its weakness on the constructive side. Implicit in his analysis is a nihilism born of despair that is characteristic...

... of Friends, and so perse­ cuted by Enemies, that we almost despair of bringing him to any good; and if our Reader delights in seeing Executions, I think he ought not to lose any Time in taking a first row at Tyburn.1 Richardson s film literalizes the idea implicit in Tom Jones, bringing Tom physically closer...

... simplicity prevailed. The three novels which I shall discuss dramatize the despair of lost innocence and the hope which rises from the power to endure. Styron s first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, shows the conflict between simplicity and complexity most clearly. Peyton Loftis, the doomed heroine, gazes out...

... with social justice, he was far from being a plebeian, but was an intellectual aristocrat, a grand seigneur of the human spirit. Perhaps a good definition of a megalomaniac is a person who thinks he is Voltaire. Voltaire s skepticism was never absolute, never ended in despair, and did not inhibit him...

... of things which certain thinkers continue to present by means of the utopian convention as something that is to be desired. One consequence of this conception is the anti-Utopian novel, which uses the familiar utopian convention to express a mood of dread and despair occasioned by the results...

..., that reality in Dante s time was prettier than it is today. I think there was as much room for despair then as there is now. The Christian order consigned most of man­ kind to eternal torment in hell and gave no real hope of reducing the criminal passions which made mankind deserve it. I think...

... is dried 82 The South Atlantic Quarterly clay, sterile and barren. Life is as futile as religion. In despair, Omar prays: Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits and then Remold it nearer to the Heart s desire! Omar...

... of a ‘‘politics of despair’’ as a critical component of the project of provincializ- 10 ing Europe, but in PE you declare that such politics do not any longer drive your arguments. ‘‘Historicism can circulate only in a mood of frustration, despair...