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...Rodrigo Karmy Bolton This article argues that martyrdom carries with it a destituent power. To this end, it examines the difference between martyrdom and sacrifice in five sections. The first four discuss sacrifice in French anthropology; Bataille's proposal of an “unemployed negativity...

... Mia . 2005 . Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror . New York : Cambridge University Press . Brooks David . 2002 . “ The Culture of Martyrdom: How Suicide Bombing Became Not Just a Means but an End .” Atlantic , June . www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/06/the-culture...

... element of the film. Because he was raised in an Italian-Catholic environment, Catholic concep­ tions of women and sexuality, sin and penance, martyrdom and sainthood obsess Charlie and motivate his actions. Charlie s desire to achieve martyrdom and secular sainthood stems from his self­ preoccupation...

... the decision by which he overcomes his self-destructive pride and resolves his conflict. Following the chorus, Becket says he has found the right reason for the right deed of martyrdom.2 Since the critical and dramatic effect of Becket within the play depends on the believa­ bility of his spiritual decision...

... for the element of renunciation in this play Mr. Falk reaches the conclusion that Polyeucte turns to final martyrdom because of his grief at realizing how much his young wife still loves her old suitor, Severe, and because he wishes to rise to a heroic plane in her esteem, if not to obtain her love...

... feminine heights of speculation and masculine courage of performance. Oscil­ lation between: Her weake brest heaves with strong desire Of what she may with fruitles wishes Seek for amongst her mother s kisses. Since tis not to be had at home She l travail to a Martyrdom. 948 Graham Hammill No home for her...

... were still being released on the Apple label. Ironically, an embattled and disintegrating business structure, like the long fade-out on many Beatle records, kept a vision alive long after the disappearance of the substance behind the vision. Martyrdom Rebirth Dear Beatles, . . . Perhaps you...

..., the splitting of the bone, and the blood . . . just before the great 2. Edward Albee, Tiny Alice (New York: Atheneum, 1965), p. 45. Hereafter cited as TA. 422 The South Atlantic Quarterly sound, the coming dark and the silence. I could . . . experience it all. And was . . . engulfed. Oh, martyrdom...

... a Joan play some day, beginning with the sweeping up of the cinders and orange peel after her martyrdom, and going on with Joan s arrival in heaven. I should have God about to damn the English for their share in her betrayal and Joan producing an end of burnt stick in arrest of Judgment. What s...

... or martyrs.Only to add in the same breath that martyrdom is ineffective, that it has nothing to do with truth, and that it is even (quoting Nietzsche) ‘‘enemy number one’’ of the truth.Of course their death does not prove anything...

... of Rights, while he, the active agent, kept silent and missed an oppor­ tunity of martyrdom for liberty by not declaring his own responsibility and forcing the issue. Having written the fearlessly radical Queen Mab he did not loose it boldly upon a society that would have promptly fined and imprisoned him...

... caused by perfidy. I would like to suggest that the model for poeticizing Pushkin s duel was The Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb the story from the Primary Chronicle whose traces can be found in all Russian hagiog­ raphy. These two saintly brothers, not wishing to subject Kievan Rus A well-known...

... and the ideal, a discovery which results in a willing abandon­ ment to the inevitable completion of the cycle, when, at the moment of fulfilment, the subterranean dark/ Has crossed the nadir, and begins to climb. The stoic response of the lad is always complete; he stands for a type of martyrdom...

... and ultimate martyrdom. Celia Coplestone was born to redeem the backward heathen but not the cities of modern Europe. She is obviously too good for Peter Quilpe, but one would be hard put to find a young man who is worthy of her. She is dismissed from this world as early as pos­ sible; and right...

... of the Religion Depart- ment at Barnard College. She is the author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Columbia University Press, 2004) and the editor of Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds. She is interested in theories of interpretation, embodied pieties...

... Molester ends with an explicit emphasis on beginning —his text takes a metacritical turn. As if the essay had been directed, all along, against the Greco-Roman-Christian metaphysic that translates martyrdom into witnessing, substitutes testimony for witnessing, and derives protest from testimony...

... 1950 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly of Saints (the Cardinal s early career), The Martyrdom of a Soul (his trial), and No Fear but Courage (selections from his papers). There are appendices dealing with The Political and Legal Aspects, and two chronologies, one of the major events...

... by church dignitaries to the Cardinal s papers, some 740,000 words of them. The book is divided into a Prologue by Cardinal Spellman, In the Footsteps 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly of Saints (the Cardinal s early career), The Martyrdom of a Soul (his trial), and No Fear but Courage (selections from...

... and Heroic Martyrdom. In Vagaries in Modern Literary Criticism: Some Instances Touch­ ing the Renaissance, E. L. Marilla pleads for critical evaluation of literary works based on a reliable system of critical principles and on objective analysis; he calls attention to the empty pronouncements which have...

... posed to assume gigantic proportions through an all-encompassing ethics of survival, mothers are convicted to a certain martyrdom of life that com- plements the death of their sons on the battle field, which is amply dem...