“... is one good reason the décor is always kept so bare in Sarraute, and the dramatis personae remain anonymous. They are most of them personal pronouns only, a singular il or elle or, when there is need for the coercive voice of a collective to be heard, a plural ils or elles. They remain as pronouns because the pronominal is also the pre-nominal: there is no ...”

“... strongly autobiographical cast, they behave with the irresponsibility and sometimes the freedom of anonymous texts. One of these, already familiar to many readers, is the emblem originally published under the title ‘Time, Real and Imaginary’: On the wide level of a mountain’s head, (I knew not where, but ‘twas some faery place) Their ...”

“... initiatives (a grant from the Civil List, a subvention from the Society of Authors and an anonymous donation). The rest came from Harriet Weaver, who retroactively paid Joyce £50 for the serialisation of A Portrait and £25 in advance for the serialisation of Ulysses. These were not grand sums: on the eve of the Great War, the average wage for the ...”

“... are scrupulously attributed and annotated (no easy task, since, as usual, the periodical was anonymous), but no attempt has been made to list the illustrators who constituted a main element in the Miscellany’s miscellaneous appeal to the 1837 reader. Thus for the Wellesley Index George Cruikshank played no part in the periodical’s early success ...”

“... X with Blairite Y in the fifth most senior post at the Department of Trade and Industry and anonymous accusations from 10 Downing Street of lunacy in Number 11 – while knowing all along that the Chancellor’s camp had a secret which might ruin him. ‘There’s a thermonuclear bomb ticking underneath Mandelson,’ Whelan whispered to lobby ...”

“... forward base for CIA infiltration of the counter-culture (the charge duly crops up, though, in an anonymous article in Progressive Labor from February 1969, entitled ‘Marcuse: Cop-out or Cop?’). Though Marcuse pointed out in a later pow-wow with Habermas that, in common with Franz Neumann, H. Stuart Hughes and Walter Langer, he was but an understrapper in ...”

“... his small meannesses and delinquencies – is most of what he has got to think about. He is the anonymous double of his fantasies. In his little experiment on the bus he is trying to find out whether it’s possible to have a secret life. And yet what his alter ago, the narrator, keeps intimating is that he only has a secret life, a life that is secret to ...”

“... a variant of the dilemma that had faced Braque and Picasso: irreducible difference confronting anonymous identity, a dilemma restaged in a different key of agonised inquiry. Pollock, in turn, is followed by a reconsideration of Abstract Expressionism. There are also earlier readings of the various Large Bathers by Cézanne and of the Death of Marat by ...”

“... have written better about the apparently insignificant – from her ‘Filling Station’ to the anonymous, timid commuter-soul of ‘The Man-Moth’, from ‘Jeronimo’s House’ to ‘Manuelzinho’: I see you all up there along with Formoso, the donkey, who brays like a pump gone dry, then suddenly stops. – All just standing, staring off into fog and ...”

“... it all: he has a star witness, who was there, sur place in the trenches, but begged to remain anonymous, leaving Dona Tranquilina’s grandson to the courage of his concoctions. ‘These beasts,’ the socialist writer writes about the Gurkhas, a racial minority, ‘were so bloodthirsty that when the battle was over, they went on killing their own ...”

“... Mr Carlton may well be challenged about all this, but he has the authority of some highly placed anonymous sources as well as the oral records of Dulles, Eisenhower, Aldrich and others. Eden was not, in the event, pushed out, though he well might have been, had he tried to linger longer. Whether he retired for the public reasons given, ill health, or, as Mr ...”

“... Strictures on the charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury’, which, though anonymous, certainly took risks by its outspoken line on the prosecution of Thelwall and his friends. He also wrote a powerful novel of social protest, Things As They Are, or Caleb Williams, in which the central characters, Falkland and Caleb, master and man, act ...”

“... from Scott, to George Eliot, to Kilgore Trout. According to the massive, nine-volume Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature there are, largely speaking, only three reasons for masked authorship, all prudential: ‘Generally the motive is some form of timidity, such as (a) fear of consequence, (b) diffidence, (c) shame.’ Two of the novels ...”

“... gaze of [Foucauldian] genealogy, discourses emerge and pop like glittering bubbles from a swamp of anonymous processes of subjugation.’ Habermas the universalist wants an answer to the question: ‘Why ought domination to be resisted?’ He thinks that Foucault’s ‘linking of a positivist attitude with a critical claim’ is ‘paradoxical’. He condemns ...”

“... approach, and consisted of exercises in critical analysis and the dating of anonymous passages, the kind of thing Leavis himself performed with virtuosity. The hallmark of ‘Cambridge English’, it was the only innovation to be widely imitated elsewhere. The compulsory papers aside, Leavis for the most part could teach much as he ...”