1. a. Chiefly Philos. The inherent nature or essence of a person or thing; what a thing or person is; that which distinguishes a person or thing from others. Opposed to haecceity.
Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique. Foster
Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique.Foster
What is un-Japanese about Wordsworth, however - and you only need to remember a poem like The Prelude or "Tintern Abbey" to realise it - is the nimbus of introspection and ratiocination which surrounds the physical details of the scene. Seamus Heaney in The Guardian.
And in “Headbirths,�? which I wrote about in Saturday Review in 1982, Grass was still taking himself to task: “It was a mistake to imagine that ‘Cat and Mouse’ would abreact my schoolboy sorrows.�? Guilt, and more guilt — and more atonement. Boy, does this guy beat up on himself! I thought. Irving on Grass NYT
since it is one of the narrative's implications that the myth of the Fall can be understood as a fall into language, then the secondary, postlapsarian nature of language might be the very thing the Wake seeks to overcome by replacing it with a putative directness of communication that preceeded the Fall. intro to FW ix
The language of the Wake us a composite of words and syllables combined with such a degree of fertile inventiveness that new sounds and new meanings are constantly ingeminated. Intro to Finnegans Wake, p.viii
transform all idiomatic expressions in which 'well', 'good', and the like feature to pejorate them: 'that will do just as badly', 'for bad and all', and so forth. Casanova, Samuel Beckett
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plumpesdenken commented on the word qiddity
1. a. Chiefly Philos. The inherent nature or essence of a person or thing; what a thing or person is; that which distinguishes a person or thing from others. Opposed to haecceity.
May 4, 2009
plumpesdenken commented on the word attentats
an attack
Since the attentats of 2001, the Middle East has occupied the front of the world-political stage -- perry anderson
December 29, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word jejune
Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique. Foster
December 13, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word jejeune
Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique.Foster
December 13, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word ratiocination
What is un-Japanese about Wordsworth, however - and you only need to remember a poem like The Prelude or "Tintern Abbey" to realise it - is the nimbus of introspection and ratiocination which surrounds the physical details of the scene. Seamus Heaney in The Guardian.
November 25, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word fissile
the fissile logic of the bildungsroman...
October 14, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word adumbrative
Mishra—who has very dark hair and adumbrative eyes yet seems to emit brightness - the believer mag
September 7, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word vicariously
"To read vicariously is to read like a vicar, one serving as a substitute or agent for the author or narrator or even for God." Mahaffey, p. 79.
August 6, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word palinode
"Esther Waters, often considered Moore's finest work and a return of naturalism, is in fact a naturalist palinode." Joe Cleary p. 96
July 19, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word guignol
"... a grand guignol version of naturalism.." Joe Cleary
July 18, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word ludic
"... twenteith century Irish naturalism has evolved in new, often ludic, directions." Joe Cleary
July 18, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word potentates
potentates of the establishment... Joe Cleary
July 17, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word abreact
And in “Headbirths,�? which I wrote about in Saturday Review in 1982, Grass was still taking himself to task: “It was a mistake to imagine that ‘Cat and Mouse’ would abreact my schoolboy sorrows.�? Guilt, and more guilt — and more atonement. Boy, does this guy beat up on himself! I thought. Irving on Grass NYT
July 7, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word felicities
Kearney's critical temperament is non-combative, indeed resolutely irenic, seeking and finding felicities.
July 7, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word irenic
Kearney's critical temperament is non-combative, indeed resolutely irenic, seeking and finding felicities.
July 7, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word affectless
"His prose style is disinvested in -- and as affectless as -- his protagonists." John Bailey on DeLillo's Falling Man
July 7, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word phronesis
the new phronesis in modernist studies
February 4, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word indurated
they are indurated vices of the longue durée.
Perry Anderson
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/print/ande01_.html
January 19, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word postlapsarian
since it is one of the narrative's implications that the myth of the Fall can be understood as a fall into language, then the secondary, postlapsarian nature of language might be the very thing the Wake seeks to overcome by replacing it with a putative directness of communication that preceeded the Fall. intro to FW ix
January 13, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word ingeminated
The language of the Wake us a composite of words and syllables combined with such a degree of fertile inventiveness that new sounds and new meanings are constantly ingeminated. Intro to Finnegans Wake, p.viii
January 13, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word quietus
The quietus he delivered to literary realism literally went unnoticed. Casanova, Samuel Beckett, p. 105.
January 9, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word pejoration
transform all idiomatic expressions in which 'well', 'good', and the like feature to pejorate them: 'that will do just as badly', 'for bad and all', and so forth. Casanova, Samuel Beckett
January 6, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word paratactic
"a kind of paratactic unarticulation" Casanova, Samuel Beckett, p. 16.
January 4, 2007
plumpesdenken commented on the word oleaginously
something swirled oleaginously through a huge vat of liquid mud. mieville, perdito st station p. 127
December 8, 2006
plumpesdenken commented on the word peristaltic
... the grubs circumscibed their little prison with peristaltic motion." Perdido Street Station p. 125
December 3, 2006
plumpesdenken commented on the word refulgent
"The once refulgent reign of Queen Elizabeth..."
December 3, 2006
plumpesdenken commented on the word scrofulous
"torpid, scrofulous building that still housed the Taliban embassy" Hitchens, p.442
December 3, 2006
plumpesdenken commented on the word casuistry
Hitchens on the casuistry of Chomsky in blaming the World Bank. p. 423
December 3, 2006