... “dark riddles” that compose Bloom’s discursive negotiations, it concludes that Joyce demonstrates the vital role self-narrativizing plays in countering existential isolation, and that his narrative technique is in important ways aligned with Levinas’s conception of an ethics of love. 8 Judith...

... the constraints of society and its institutions. In the 1960s, he defined this freedom in the context of existentialism, but even after his interest in the broader philosophy of existentialism declined in the 1970s, he maintained a concern with the achievement of “authenticity...

... analytic philosophy existentialism New Criticism Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 Evaluating the institutional stakes of O’Connor’s story involves considering the history of the deepening rift between American academic philosophy and the philosophical ideas that enjoyed cultural capital...

... when he said that Burke was his prime theoretical influence, and argue that his work was neither a form of existential anguish nor modernist practice but a form of pragmatism and a form of Burkean rhetoric.7 As Ellison himself explained near the end of his life, “in college and on my own, I...

..., the relation with France and its culture figured—often significantly, at times decisively—in America’s con­ tributions to major literary and critical currents of the twentieth centu­ ry: the modernist revolution, the creation and dissemination of the existential vision, postwar African-American...

... that there was a “fundamental evolu- tion in the concept of the authentic self” at midcentury, a movement from “an existential emphasis on self-constitution to a more postmodern view of the self as an embodiment of culture” (3). However, this transition does not, as critics often assume, abandon concerns...

... possible terms on the existential/phenomenological side of the [antinomic] equation”; for Goran Blix (2014) “affect—if defined as emotion that exceeds any historically given taxonomy of passions—has always existed, and its shadow existence could be discerned in texts throughout history.” However, traced...

... treatment Coetzee gives to all his material, but in the Australian writing it becomes more thoroughly allegorized. The allegories of authorship in the Austra- 12 Coetzee’s Postcolonial Diaspora lian fiction have to do with the relationships between the existential and the representational...

..., that arranges Stevens’s existentially divided poetic landscape. Unfortunately, the predominating critical approach to Stevens’s racial imagination is neglect. Reading two versions of “The News and the Weather”—the version first submitted to Accent , a literary magazine at the University of Illinois...

... depressive illness as such. Taken as a whole, the range of these accounts, incorporating both the existentialism of Percy and the identity-based accounts of Styron and Wurtzel, illustrates in miniature the evolution in popular thinking about the self during the postwar decades. This essay argues...

..., then, is the phenomenological experience of selfhood where mind and body are unified, Merleau-Ponty’s “body-as-it-is-lived-by-me,” as Grosz (1994 : 86) sees it, while schizophrenia enacts the Cartesian rift between mind and body. Drawing on existential phenomenology, Laing conceives of the body as, to use Grosz’s term...

... dramatizes an existential reca­ libration of interiority by which its value is knowable from the inside, intrinsically, measured out in Bonhoeffer’s own footsteps. As the poem continues, Hill shifts this spatial doubling into a temporal or historical one, with Bonhoeffer’s past commitment arriving...

... aesthetic value. It’s also an aesthetic—perhaps more precisely, an experiential and existential—prod to transform. For it turns out that Clune’s commitment to transformation is quite strong, possibly paramount among his aesthetic and professional values, and seemingly for its own sake. As though attempting...

... Sommer (2003 : 403) points out that one way in which Blumenberg philosophizes “against” Heidegger is “through emphatic appreciation and elaboration of precisely that which is ‘existentially-analytically’ rejected as ‘inauthentic’ and disdained as ‘theoretical.’” 9 Kafka was one of Blanchot’s most...

..., which seeks to uncover racial particularities elided in an existential fantasy of universalized American identity, remains constrained by a positivist na­ tional fantasy that particular identities can reliably be recognized. With Our America, Walter Benn Michaels is probably the most visible...

... or existential way, dogged, wounded, even castrated “from the start.” This could be a more general human problem, but the term bitched seems to narrow the field by half in implying that the condition it names is—that bad thing—to be feminized. While feminization is not a word Hemingway himself...

... existential view. In defending tragedy, then, Aristotle does not go so far as to transform the gods into loving parents, as later interpreters do, but he does seek to rescue the origins of tragic necessity from causal opacity. Aristotle weds tragedy to eikos , to comprehensible, terrestrial likelihood...

... philosophical and existential ones.2 No 572Twentieth-Century Literature 55.4 Winter 2009 572 Darwin’s Bulldog and Huxley’s Ape doubt this distinction between Victorian and modernist is too facile, but maybe less so than we might hope. Certainly biographers of Darwin and T. H. Huxley...

... through physics: the imagination of nuclear-powered apocalypse and the sense of an imminent existential ending finally made possible by the advance of modern science. In a brisk rereading of works by some of the usual postmodern suspects—John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, Tim O’Brien, Don...

... between guilty self-identification and oracular diagnosis of the origins of evil, Auden works to articulate an adequate existential response to historic disaster. While the commuter’s “morning vow” to “concentrate more on my work” is evidence of a “dense” moral solipsism the poem wants to oppose, it also...