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Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett
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Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta

When Samuel Beckett meditated on desire in works such as Proust, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, and Molloy, he returned often to the lines quoted above from Giacomo Leopardi’s poem “A se stesso.” Just before quoting this poem in Proust, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the sages who proposed the only (im)possible solution to living: the removal of desire

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9788864534060
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176
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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
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Edward L. Tomarken

The present study of the Lives of the Poets is designed to show that Johnson’s value judgements about literature lead to ethical literary criticism that pertains to human problems affecting our daily life and world crises. In his Dictionary, Johnson defines ethics as “the doctrine of morality; a system of morality.”1 While morality and ethics were, according to Johnson, nearly in…

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9783031618420
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XIII, 172
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The Name of Samuel and The Stem
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Jastrow, Morris, 1861-1921

Generally the writer contents himself with a single reference to the interpretation of a person's name given in the account of his birth, but in the case of Samuel, as in that of Isaac, he dwells upon the interpretation with an emphasis which is unmistakable and which is clearly intentional.2 It is not surprising, in view of the difficulties involved in the first chapter of Samuel where the bir…

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p. 83-105,
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222.4
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Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wa…
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RUTH, Barratt-Peacock

Drawing on Bernd Mahr’s model theory, this volume introduces a new approach to Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. Focusing on two very different authors, David Malouf and the Indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson, this book highlights their similarities rather than their differences. It is the first book-length study dedicated specifically to each author’s poetic oeuvre. Compr…

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