(Defence, 535, 513) (27) Shelley opposes superstition to poetry: the former pretends to foretell, but the latter, in its atemporality , transcends the antics of prophetess Southcott and the vulgar, fanatical masses that followed her.

This section can be supplemented by Conant's (BCL 53) and Catarina Dutilh Novaes's very valuable discussions of the ahistoricality and atemporality of analytic philosophy (BCL p.

The most radical experimentalism with this technique has been carried out by the Language Poets, for whom language use is the search for an attempted atemporality practicing temporal break, juxtaposition, multiple perceptions and attracting attention to the social and political levels of language.

Desan thinks that only in Montaigne's final years did he take "an interest in the human condition in its universality and atemporality "--a judgment that can hardly be supported by any open-minded assessment of the book as a whole.

Several critics have looked closely at the workings of the novel in terms of mystical themes and atemporality . They focus on time and chance, as does Hyatt Waggoner in "Notes on the Uses of Coincidence in the Novels of E.

It is necessary to mention from the beginning that the intention of the Apostle is not to offer Melchizedek the features of a heavenly creature, but keep him wrapped in mystery, in atemporality , which justifies the eternity of his priesthood.

Thus Victorian lyricists, whose verses often lament the elusive nature of remembrance, tend to write highly mnemonic poems--which further pursue permanence by aspiring to substitute static atemporality for plotted progression.

Many elegiac speakers attempt to reorient their perspective by considering eternity, expressing a longing to be free from the cyclical and painful present of elegy and caught up in the atemporality of heaven.

motif (of atemporality ) in the novel as well as its role in

The speech of the narrator, who frequently takes the position of the observer of the character's states, thoughts, and words, is often nearly imperceptible, functioning to mark time, to penetrate the poetic plot, drawing the poem and the reader out of transhistorical atemporality and into the actual moment.

This would seem to favor atemporality over durability or longevity.