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Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas

Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas Though the words impasse and impassive come to English from two different etymological sources—impasse from the French, meaning without a pass; impassive from the Latin, meaning without suffering or without feeling—English invites confusion. In part because one cannot write directly about an impasse without making it less of one, this essay takes up the question of the impasse through the available pun: that is, with attention to impassivity. It begins with the origin of impasse in Voltaire and then, following the Oxford English Dictionary, turns to uses of impassive in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Shelley’s Hellas to explore the interplay between feeling (the feeling of being blocked, for instance) and feeling’s absence. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas

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Abstract

Though the words impasse and impassive come to English from two different etymological sources—impasse from the French, meaning without a pass; impassive from the Latin, meaning without suffering or without feeling—English invites confusion. In part because one cannot write directly about an impasse without making it less of one, this essay takes up the question of the impasse through the available pun: that is, with attention to impassivity. It begins with the origin of impasse in Voltaire and then, following the Oxford English Dictionary, turns to uses of impassive in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Shelley’s Hellas to explore the interplay between feeling (the feeling of being blocked, for instance) and feeling’s absence.

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Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Jun 1, 2020

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    Cheeke, Stephen
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    Curran, Stuart O’Neill, Michael Howe, Anthony
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Other Lyrical Drama and the Inception of Hellas
    Duffy, Cian
  • ‘We Are All Greeks’: Shelley’s Hellas and Romantic Nationalism
    Findlay, L. M.
  • Shelley, Milton, and the Poetics of Ideological Transformation: Paradise Lost and the Prologue to Hellas
    Hoagwood, Terence
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    Kipperman, Mark
  • The Secrets of an Elder Days: Shelley after ‘Hellas.’
    McGann, Jerome
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    Ulmer, William A.
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    Zeniou, Simos