“... apparently lifeless corpse. All in all, any provident narratologist will regret the loss of this self-de-authenticating multiplex of designer figments. Winkler and Stephens have assembled a posy of broken blossoms – a standard reference and a book attractive to the amateur of sentiment and sensation. In an edition which enlivens unpedantic scholarship with ...”

“... has the air of being a poor relation, coming in on the coat-tails of Post-Modernism proper. If any self-respecting intellectual is Post-Modernist, then, the implication is, a contemporary novel had better be so too – out of duty, almost, as much as out of imperious artistic necessity. Cross Channel, whether ‘Post-Modernist’ or not, strikes me as perhaps ...”

“... Place is emblematic. Silver-town is not its downriver self, the boarded-up ribbon of dust between the City Airport and the Tate – Lyle sugar factory, but ‘a silent quay ... a bale of cinnamon ... in the night air’. ‘An Aquarian moon rises over Limehouse.’ The psychogeography of London is affected by the ...”

“... no sense, for study and writing had been his path to fame – he was, in fact, a classic case of self-advancement through authorship. As against Kates, I would imagine that d’Eon must have had at least a mild sexual interest in cross-dressing. How else explain a very charming portrait of him in female dress done when he was 25? One takes to d’Eon. Kates ...”

“... concept of owning land or owning anything. Many are not so much the dispossessed of society, as self-dispossessed. Fréa gave up a job in publishing to protest at Fairmile. Dale gave up nursing and Richard gave up managing a mental health phone-line. Many sign on, but many others choose not to. Going against the grain of consumerism, these renunciants have ...”

“... working overtime to produce an interpretation that would negate the obvious: that in the self-consciously multicultural Republic, black-white tensions have decisive consequences for the meting out of justice. Blacks have always known what whites now wish to forget in their desire to enjoin us all to transcend race in the interests of colourblind ...”

“... it gradually gave way to the plainer, more disenchanted idiom of Patrick Kavanagh, or the self-parodic minimalism of Samuel Beckett, so fearful of writing Hiberno-English that he ceased to write in English altogether. Colm Tóibín’s austere, monkish prose, in which everything is exactly itself and redolent of nothing else, belongs to this ...”

“... is in and out of psychiatric hospitals, estranged from his wife and at odds with the self-satisfactions of his community. ‘You are a man without boundaries,’ concludes the blithely uncompromising rabbi he visits: ‘There are limits, prescribed, written. You’ve overshot’ Conformity is complicated for these characters: unexpected detours ...”

“... is not unaware of the potential drawbacks of this approach. At various points she flirts with self-parody. LeVon, for instance, with her piles of research boxes (and the Woolybucket Compendium that she’ll ‘never’ get done), is clearly a kind of author-figure, and on various occasions Bob’s impatience at being presented with yet another nugget of ...”

“... These topics weren’t chosen at random: Ricks makes the interesting claim that ‘allusion can be self-delightingly about allusion.’ Allusions occur in passages that concern generation and sonship, or haunting and echoing, or secrecy and dalliance, because allusion itself can be described in these terms, as filial inheritance, or spectral reproduction, or ...”

“... power to control completely or to predict reliably, great works of art can break the circle of self-love which is often exceptionally tough in people of this type. The urge to possess begins to get out of hand, and the collector or owner is himself possessed. The paintings of racehorses by Stubbs, informed by an almost clinical aesthetic that reflects ...”

“... derailed near Carlisle and two passengers were killed. Very “Dick”, somehow.’) Later, as a self-satisfied bestselling author: ‘Peter has to write a third leader on Mosley and the BUF. I told him I’d met Mosley and been impressed with the man . . . a fair amount of what Mosley says, in the current climate, can’t be dismissed as fanaticism or ...”

“... in him and sundered from each other – whence his death – abolishing this little child ‘self’ sick in the springtime dead in the autumn – it’s the sun the wave idea the cough 2) son reabsorbed not gone it is him – or his brother I told him this two brothers – forced back remaining in the womb – sure of myself century will not pass by ...”

“... would destroy the parasite. That campaign was one of the last expressions of Euro-American self-confidence and of the narrow bio-medical thinking which defined ‘malaria’ as a single disease which technology could eradicate from above. As early as 1969 the WHO realised that its campaign was not working. DDT and other insecticides turned out to be ...”

“... and rebellion among Appalachian ‘mountaineers’, John Gaventa noted that where ‘a positive self-image is not portrayed for a particular group, that group may develop a sense of inadequacy about itself, reinforced by how other groups project their media stereotypes on them’ – and he isn’t talking about anything more sinister than the Beverly ...”