transhistorical

Precisely because murder is more "transhistorical" than most things, mysteries should tend to be "better" than other historical novels.

Historical mysteries 2005

I shuddered a little on encountering the phrase "complex polyvocal, transhistorical schematic."

Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011

Literature, as we all know, is the human pageant distilled; but it's equally the transhistorical record of a sad and furious primate, a mirror held up to our species 'ugliness.

The State of Criticism 2008

But he is stuck with a conception of literature that equates it with "content," that reduces it to its role in facilitating our understanding of "what sort of creatures we are," its status as "transhistorical record."

The State of Criticism 2008

As pointed out, Rickert in the end had to rely on a certain transhistorical, transcultural criterion in order to account for the purpose of an action, an assumption that cannot be warranted in Weber's view.

Asthmatic 2009

This mysterious productive contradiction of imbalances was the key innovation of the sonnet that (if I remember correctly) elevated it above the 16-line form it was born out of in the 13th century and is probably part of the reason why the sonnet has remained such an enduring and mesmerising transhistorical/translinguistic form.

Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

That is, women's and family historians have made all kinds of blanket transhistorical assumptions about the experience of heterosexual relations, childbirth, and child care especially with reference to women's experiences of them, but people want to get very careful and historically specific when we talk about lesbian-like history.

Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Part 3 Of A Blogfest) Tenured Radical 2009

I took Bennett's use of "lesbian-like" as a strategy for ditching the transhistorical assumptions we make about heteronormativity.

Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Part 3 Of A Blogfest) Tenured Radical 2009

I do not know that my blog has anything to suggest, except that I would love to read a great book of transhistorical comparative scholarship that tackled this business of smell head on.

Stephen Fry: The Great Stink of 2005 2008

Romantic periods on the other, two enduring types or figures or forms of life that would correspond, within the history of lesbianism, to the sorts of transhistorical categories that compose a genealogy of male homosexuality, at least according to the model I sketched out in the title essay of my book.

'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire' 2006