10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTHUMOUSNESS»
Discover the use of
posthumousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
posthumousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction
In all of these writers, posthumousness is the mark of a historical disorientation, in
which the late time of the twentieth century, as the narrator ofJ. G. Ballard's novel
Millennium People puts it, 'lingers on',” persisting as a spectre in the midst of ...
2
Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology
countries,"26 always had an aura of metaphorical posthumousness. The
dialogue between ancients and moderns that had been one of the ideals of the
humanist self-conception had always been a kind of "dialogue of the dead" like
those of ...
Sean Alexander Gurd,
2005
Graham Simmonds. SECTOR 3 The present conclusions before
posthumousness sets in. song and desCanT A kettle boils, a lover makes tea,
SECTOR 3 The present conclusions before posthumousness sets in.
4
Contemporaries and Snobs
The serenity of classicism has always derived from an underlying historical
posthumousness, as the turbulence of romanticism from an underlying pre-
natalism. only one thing stands in the way of perfect posthumousness, a slow and
irregular ...
Laura Riding, Laura Heffernan, Jane Malcolm,
2014
5
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
To read texts of the posthumousness is to reflect on this undecidability of
meaning, and to see either state as allegorical of the other. (60) This idea of the
uncertainty of categories, blurred boundaries and the undecidability of presence
or ...
6
Unfinished Business: Tracing Incompletion in Jean Genet's ...
Just as Musil's papers could no longer be considered posthumous if they were
published before his death, legally speakmg, the label of posthumousness does
not apply to these three plays, which were all divulged and well- publicized
before ...
Brian Gordon Kennelly,
1997
7
The Life of Thomas Jefferson
I. The fact that posthumousness of publication, other things being equal, is
generally regarded as, on the whole, a favorable indication as to motives, we
make no doubt ; but in reality, it is a consideration perhaps generally hardly
thought of.
Henry Stephens Randall,
1858
8
The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare
... desire, Caliban projects as much as he bears Monstrously anachronistic,
littered uncomprehendingly from a world long ago or far ahead, Caliban is
riddled with the pain, and the bewilderment, of both posthumousness and
precipitousness.
9
Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry
In the handful of poems left from the year in the Middle East and from the months
of waiting for the invasion of France in England, Douglas is haunted by a self in
suspense, a flickering self living on the edges of posthumousness or purgatory.
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Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles ...
At last, given the strong imprint Dickens left on this perception—so strong that it
has become virtually impossible to talk about modern incarceration without
referring or alluding to Dickens—how can we evaluate his posthumousness, his ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTHUMOUSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
posthumousness is used in the context of the following news items.
The History of “Loving” to Read
Literary love is intrinsically doomed; the canon, as Lynch puts it, is “a cultural space of posthumousness.” Victorian readers took to visiting the ... «The New Yorker, Feb 15»
Loving Literature: A Cultural History, by Deidre Shauna Lynch
... process of canon formation in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in the representation of literature as “a cultural space of posthumousness”. «Times Higher Education, Dec 14»
Put focus on life, not death
... be a small comfort. But I think most of us would actually prefer if posthumousness could in fact be suffered. At least that would be something. «Albany Times Union, Jun 14»
A Review of Christopher Hitchens' Mortality
He took his own advice: these essays, written no doubt with the weight of impending posthumousness bearing down on him, are as free of ... «First Things, Oct 12»
Cloudy Trophies
And it led him inevitably to the paradox of posthumousness, the way that immortality is gained only at the price of mortality. “There is an awful ... «New Yorker, Jun 08»