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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 1982
...Peter Stine Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Joseph Conrad and the Politics of Survivor Guilt: Nostromo Peter Stine The position of the survivor of great calamity is seldom admirable, Hemingway wrote, then deleted from his final draft of A Farewell to Arms.' Few writers knew...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1947) 46 (2): 227–238.
Published: 01 April 1947
... warning unheeded by unheeding men. It is more complicated and more significant than that. From World War I to World War II there has been a cycle or pattern of attitudes toward war; this pattern appears both in litera­ ture generally and in the changing moods of particular writers. It begins with guilt...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1943) 42 (1): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 1943
... the par­ ents (or the nurse, the parent-substitute). It cannot help engendering a feeling of guilt. The infant has strong positive feelings towards its parents it loves them, it admires them, it turns towards them in infinite dependence, for their protection. But when its primitive im­ pulses have...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1967) 66 (1): 92–104.
Published: 01 January 1967
... criticism is the relationship between Hawthorne s use of the past and his treatment of sin, guilt, and expiation. Hyatt Waggoner is one of the few critics who acknowledge explicitly a connection between these two major elements of Hawthorne s writ­ ings; he observes that the whole body of his work implies...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (2): 207–217.
Published: 01 April 1964
...Jonathan Baumbach Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Paradise Lost: The Novels of William Styron Jonathan Baumbach Son, you don t have to be a campfollower of reaction but always remember where you came from. The ground is bloody and full of guilt where you were bom and you must...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (4): 448–459.
Published: 01 October 1966
... dominion and from his father s ideals of the West and the plow, Garland de­ serts his mother, leaving her to his father and to the difficult life of a Western pioneer wife while he pursues a career as a student and writer in the East. Gradually he is overcome by guilt until his life in the East...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1974) 73 (4): 528–540.
Published: 01 October 1974
... of in­ nocence and evil, guilt and expiation, Dickens attempts to provide an answer to the question, How does one expiate one s sins and receive grace? Though he implies that evil has a this-worldly cause, he at the same time would like to believe in an other-worldly solu­ tion salvation by Christian...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 73–86.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of their use. The political monster is made the bearer of a collective guilt, which is then dissipated and assumed as necessary to the perseverance of all. By contrast, those enacting revolutionary violence unsanctioned by the state must face this problem directly and shoulder such costs themselves. 7...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (1): 15–26.
Published: 01 January 1965
... a sermon on Sabbath-breaking, and at that time I felt what guilt was, though never before, that I can remember. By afternoon he had shaken off his depression. But he could not escape it long, for the same day, as I was in the midst of a game at Cat, and having struck it one blow from the Hole, just as I...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1906) 5 (4): 333–341.
Published: 01 October 1906
... technicality without reference to the question of the guilt or innocence of the accused. Disgusted and enraged at an administration of criminal justice which had come dangerously near being a farce, the friends of the murdered man took the law into their own hands, and, in attempting to deal out that justice...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (2): 199–207.
Published: 01 April 1951
... was not reinstated until 1945. A year later he published a small but important volume entitled here The Question of German Guilt. While most Germans were ready to think that the nation would be redeemed by the hanging of a few top criminals, Jaspers warned against being misled by this dangerous fallacy. He urged his...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 1969
..., however, was the old system of values which deplored both covetousness and resistance to authority, and the increasing divergence between those values and individual behavior, the author argues per­ suasively, produced a gnawing guilt that made men peculiarly susceptible to the atavistic appeals...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (3): 351–363.
Published: 01 July 1959
... guilt upon her. Even her release of Tom into the white world grows appropriately out of her arraignment before Percy Dris­ coll on the false charge of petty larceny; moreover, she acts not in vengeance but out of desperation to save him from the fate of slaves sold down the river. That her defensive...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1971) 70 (4): 560–574.
Published: 01 October 1971
... legislation for Burnham shares the character­ istics of economic legislation; it disrupts equilibrium and leads to a socialistic state with features that are as enticing as Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. Much of this centralization and expansion of government, for Burnham, is the result of the Guilt...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 153–160.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the inequality is in my favor. (This is why consent from above remains a problem.) As if with the advent of democracy a new sense of political guilt, arising from a new civil intimacy, becomes possible, from which, as it were, hierarchy had protected us The worry about consent from...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (4): 536–542.
Published: 01 October 1969
... error, they are. The tragedy of the loss of the aristocracy their ineptitude and their impotence what brought it about? Bill was concerned too with this feeling of guilt we hear so much about. That idea about the South s guilt is interesting to me. Everybody talks about the guilt of the South and, God...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 July 1968
.... But there is something else, too. There is often the gnaw­ ing and burning sense of guilt, conscious or only inexplicably felt. It is a guilt coming from the injustice on which this earlier serenity had been founded and by which it was maintained. In Faulkner 466 The South Atlantic Quarterly this sense of guilt extends...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (4): 381–385.
Published: 01 October 1983
... bodies. In William Blake s lyric The Sick Rose, the worm is an agent of mortal corruption, since it is destroying the Rose s life, but it also suggests sexual guilt, as its dark secret love has invaded her bed of crimson joy. Allowing for Blake s habitual ironies and ambiguities, we might further...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (3): 389–398.
Published: 01 July 1951
... own observations of childhood: Hell lay about them in their infancy. 392 The South Atlantic Quarterly But if one sees evil wherever he looks about him, he feels guilt whenever he looks within himself. There is a kind of osmosis by which evil flows from the world into the souls of men...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2004) 103 (4): 719–754.
Published: 01 October 2004
... of Bitterkomix (a highly selective one, by necessity) that is alert to both its form and content, and that both trusts and mistrusts its contributors’ attitude of cynical truth telling. ‘‘Our parents had us so that we could represent their guilt Bitterkomix regularly pays homage to American and European...