 Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart: one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times,...  The American Whig Review - Seite 2861850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1994 - 1952 Seiten
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 | Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - 1995 - 388 Seiten
...the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was the unfathomable longing of... | |
 | Jonathan Elmer - 1995 - 284 Seiten
...returns as the law itself. In "The Black Cat" Poe overtly poses the perverse in opposition with the law: "Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth...Law, merely because we understand it to be such?" (M, 3: 852). But this invocation of Law only renders explicit what is played out symbolically in the... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 564 Seiten
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 | Dennis A. Foster - 1997 - 200 Seiten
..."man" and as a secret rationality: "Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?" (599). In "The Imp of the Perverse" the narrator also speaks of a primitive impulse — "elementary,"... | |
 | 1998 - 702 Seiten
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