Search Results for atavism

... to one of Freud’s most classic cases, Sergei Pankejeff, otherwise known as the Wolf Man. In discussing Freud, Seitler suggests that residual animality “enacts” the condition of atavism as a “return not to but of the past” (33). The Wolf Man case functions as an introduction to the image of being...

... model “thus normalises atavism by making it an unavoidable consequence of non-blending inheritance, and thus it avoids the progressive homogenisation predicted by blending inheritance” (46). Newman compellingly cites the mathematical biologist D’Arcy Thompson, who described the mechanisms...

..., the recursive temporal subjectivity of atavism, and the relationship between realism, affect, and embodiment, respectively) that bear directly on some of Thurtle’s claims. The book’s final part, “Hybrid Time, Hybrid Space,” uses plant hybridizer Luther Burbank as an examplary transitional...

... dichotomy, or even to speculate on what Silko’s novel suggests about humanity’s development of destructive atavisms. The conclusion to Ecosickness begins on a personal note, with Houser sharing the type of news that populates her Google reader, “folders that hold stories of international climate aid...

... traditional, Anglocentric views of Scotland, which cast Scottish difference in terms of romance, atavism, or mythology, still held sway—were in fact essential to the dynamic concept of “Great Britain”—whereas such views of Irish culture and society had been too recently and violently challenged. Scotland’s...

..., the coming of civil war to Spain, the atavism of the new Germany and the revival of racial superstition have forced the issue home to many. We are all in danger of extinction from such outbursts of atavism” (Madge 11). Yet, the collective anxieties of the present did little to hamper interest...

... horses. In the early twentieth century, the many animal stories o f Colette display a similar moral purpose. Jack Lon­ don’s The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) exercise a more “masculine” emotional detachment, developing Nietzschean allegories o f heroic atavism...

... evolutionarily stunted, rather than decadent, although the possibility of atavism is raised): the nature-loving black Waz-don and the white, urban Ho-don. Tarzan’s clash, significantly, is with a portion of the latter race, the effete and hypocritical priests who have corrupted the grand Ho-don city of A-lur...

..., allow “opportunities for relapses into primitive impulses, . . . [or] atavisms, . . . which have distinguished certain stages of development in the history of all civilized races.” In Summer, Charity depends on both Royall and Harney for the means whereby she might evade her own primitive nature...

... this “foreign costume” (558), but other details suggest that Ellison condemns Ras more for his ludicrous atavism than his theatrical ethnicity. Two anonymous observers joke about the anachronism of Ras’s costume: the first remarks on Ras’s “old lion skin” and “ole hoss” (562), while the second...

... Feelies:The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World correspond to smells and flavors. Max Nordau’s notorious critique of Huysman’s decadent Des Esseintes— “a parasite o f the lowest grade of atavism” (309)— is specifically connected to the synesthetic effect of symbolist art...