... of deliberate futurity whatsoever. Slesinger’s intervention suggests a deep affinity between leftist collectivism and modernist individualism, despite their superficial antinomy: according to her, both dangerously extend a suspicion of sentiment into the negation of personhood. As a result, the self...

..., relies on fictions to do its work. One particular legal fiction, corporate personhood, has gotten considerable attention since 2010, when Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission extended the free speech rights of corporations, thereby allowing them to pour money into elections. While...

... substantial personhood subtending all persons requires it to forgo the particularizing pleasure of aesthesis, to resist “for- mal mastery” (16) or even, in its most extreme formulations, to imagine a “poetry without poems.” For this reason, he argues, poets such as Yeats, Oppen, O’Hara and the many...

... of the orthodoxies of objectivity and impersonalism in both leftist and modernist discourse. As the essay argues, modernism and radicalism—although in many ways contrasting movements and critical modes—generally reject sentiment and embodied, individual, personhood in favor of impersonal, intellectual autonomy...

... that is inimical to culturally produced personhood and an art that refuses the reparations of institutional morality and truth. Sex is self-inimical for Bersani because the very notion of the self as an autonomous unity is made possible only through antisexual sublimations and repressions.Thus...

... of the modernist novel, to refer to the fluidity and instability of modern character, in the sense of twentieth- century representations of personhood. With the disintegration of the moral and biographical integrity of the discrete human form which subtended the novel throughout the nineteenth century...

...). For Altieri a poem is a place in which central features of the self are articulated, explored, and amplified. The acts of writing and reading poetry offer the self a form of imaginative exploration of the possibilities of personhood, possibilities that culminate in newly realized or deepened forms...

... of names; through this name play, the poet rejects the anti-Semitic, nationalistic, and materialistic environments of Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, attempting to establish an alternate reality of loving care, where even the physical boundaries of personhood would be permeable...

... as a formalist investment in the kind of characterological autonomy that earlier novelists had taken for granted. James’s theory of point of view codifies the idea that the novel stages a formal encounter between author and character, and that the otherness of a character’s fictional personhood depends...

... marginalizes not only their bodies but also their experiences, memories, wisdoms, and thus cultural contributions (131). When Mama King liberates herself through a combination of physical escape and becoming a valued member in a community of beggars, she makes visible a path to autonomous personhood...

... sociality free from political and economic determinants, Wolfe argues the shape and style of intimacy in turn depend upon a long series of assumptions about personhood, gender, sexuality, domesticity, and affect. The Bloomsburian preference for intimacy over publicness thus reflects its members...

... in a new body). The poem resists exactly the production of a new personhood by its own production of sensibility in images and forms of address, exactly that restitution by “anthropomorphic” production that Stewart sees as definitive of “poetic making.” “And again,” I am left in the repetition of elegy...

... as an aesthetic form. More specifically, it outlines the physiognomic discourses—for example, criminology—emerging from the late nineteenth century that built a “modern facial typology” (12) invested in making persons legible, often by stripping them of their individual personhood. It also demonstrates how...

...). Media’s ability to save and continually restage the singular event is expressly troubling in the case of lynching photographs, which are often so violent that they possess the “qualities of an autopsy, actively exposing its interior in an absolute evisceration of personhood” (77). For Edwards...

... tradition. “If no-self is taken to mean the denial of personhood,” Barbour warns, “it is a pernicious doctrine rather than an insight that brings liberation from suffering” (197). The ugly histories of sexism and racism not only in the West but also in Buddhist dogma, ritual, and institutional structures...

... of the aporias that open up in three famous accounts of poetry by Wordsworth, Eliot, and Paul de Man, whereby the writing subject is alienated from the personhood figured or constructed within a poem. Falci’s sensitive readings of the “tensed space of the second person” (75) pronoun in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen...

... and the present” (16). She argues that the production of the atavistic body as a “knowable site” helps in “enunciating the disciplinary organization that enables the modern to be understood as distinct and distinguishable” at the same time that it reveals a synthesis of “temporalities or personhoods...

... of its inability to fit in the various boxes available for self-articulation (nation, ethnicity, etc.) within a given cultural or political milieu, instead reveals points of surprising affiliation across heterogeneous lines in order to model more complex modes of personhood. The sub- 531 Joseph...

.... They created differential land uses that systematized urban geography by dividing manufacturing from residential districts in a manner that seemed “sane and reasonable” to some and regulative and oppressive to others who did not meet normative prescriptions of sexual or racial personhood...

... . Shin Ery . 2014 . “ Djuna Barnes, History’s Elsewhere, and the Transgender .” Journal of Modern Literature 37 , no. 2 : 20 – 38 . Snediker Michael D. 2008 . Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press...