“... journeys, is never buried very deep: here the path through trials and griefs to triumph leads to self-knowledge, and that is identified frequently with the carnal. The Grimms, as Bottigheimer shows, recast anything smacking of sex to identify it with retribution, especially where the female was concerned: Redgrove has turned their morality upside ...”

“... The reasons why one book is so much more productive than the other are mattters of writing, of the self-inscription of each writer in her work, of the legible understandings of the task in hand. One book exists because a highly-regarded writer has visited the domain of a destructive epidemic – much as she, and Jane Fonda, once visited Vietnam. Those visits ...”

“... lived a modest life, and his work mirrors that style of personal address. But this absence of self-display should not be misread. He was serious about his poetry, and his perilous moment of initiation in 1781 is an eloquent sign of just how serious he was – a sign far more eloquent, perhaps, than the better-known symbol produced by Keats in ‘The Fall ...”

“... beyond it. Herbert is out to break into this circle. The artists he is concerned with are the self-conscious Parisians: Manet, Degas, Morisot, Monet, Caillebotte and Renoir: not Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne, for whom the city had no appeal. His period is the Sixties and Seventies. His method is to categorise the themes that these artists painted, and ...”

“... its own subversive way. This strategy of concealment allowed him to give nothing of his essential self away until he, and it, were ready. Even then, all he did, in a sense, was brood in company instead of brooding alone. His novels came out of experiences that had been not so much accumulated as obsessively hoarded. Blotner relates a story not repeated by ...”

“... He is far too modest. Anyone who tries now actually to derive what could in any but a trivial and self-serving sense be called fair division from calculations of advantage will be very brave, or a knave, though a wizard if he succeeds. We also have the most powerful account yet, in a very high pile, of Rawls himself. But what of Barry’s own more positive ...”

“... is first and foremost a deliberate verbal artefact, full of vertiginous punning and Post-Modernist self-consciousness. At one point Christopher, the foetus-narrator, expounds his own literary genealogy, which includes Tristram Shandy, Nikolai Gogol, Pierre Menard (author of Don Quixote) and many others of what he calls the ‘Sons of La Mancha’. Fuentes has ...”

“... perhaps ‘intellectual biography’ is only tolerable or indeed practicable as autobiography, as self-excision. The history of any man’s thoughts leads to that of his past: even Descartes could not avoid his German winter quarters and his room with a stove. That past can be discarded, but a knowledge of it is as necessary to the presentation of a lively ...”

“... being bought out? All the Hattersley men are in their different ways repulsive: the strong are self-righteous bullies, the less than strong are dishonest, hen-pecked and ultimately wholly seedy men. The resourceful Hattersley women come out much better, and I fancy that the novelist may have had his view of things from some grandmother, or aunt. The story ...”

“... crucial question is whether there is any stage of a European war at which any nation would choose self-annihilation in preference to prolonging the struggle ... the probability, though not the certainty, but surely at least the probability, is that no such point would come whatever the course of the conflict.’ Mr McNamara has told us that when he was ...”

“... are concerned with representation in a fairly strict sense of the term – representations of the self, of gender, of power, of England. Like Greenblatt, several contributors employ the strategy of the surprising juxtaposition, placing the work of Shakespeare, Spenser, Nashe and Jonson side by side with Elizabethan miniatures, the Wunderkammern of the late ...”

“... of many workers and political reforms which already give them much greater opportunity for self-organisation – will mobilise the workers to overthrow the bureaucracy. At long last the age of true socialism will dawn. The large element of wishful thinking here should not, however, obscure the one positive feature of Mandel’s analysis. His Trotskyist ...”

“... not even mention Pearson in his early papers, Hearnshaw interprets Burt’s historical claim as a self-serving lie. Joynson, by contrast, accepts as plausible Burt’s autobiographical statement that he first obtained Pearson’s idea from a lecture rather than a published paper, which would account for the lack of formal citation. Upon closely analysing ...”

“... businessmen are delighted to hear that the chaotic political world awaits their intervention. The self-congratulation reaches a peak with the next speaker. Eberhard von Koerber is the president of ABB Europe, a multinational electrical engineering company presently employing 220,000 people. In his introduction, Dr Guntern shoots out metaphors as from a ...”

“... back to in a moment – seem to be wrong, or inappropriate, appropriateness being held to lie in a self-evident match between their sound and their sense. For Socrates, and for those who have thought like him in the many centuries since, the arbitrariness of the sign is an affliction, brought about by the incompetence of the first namer(s). Mimologics (now ...”