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20) Over the years, I have found myself visiting the graves of celebrated authors, moved not by something sacred but by an intense urge to pay respect to those who have shaped the way I view life's insubstantiality and grasp my sense of belonging within it.
Dead serious: a theology of literary pilgrimage by Middleton, Darren J.N. / Cross Currents
To read Hamlet through the perspective glass of Prospero's apology for the insubstantiality of theatrical performance is to risk hijacking the play for a phenomenology that is only tenuously historical, and at the same time only superficially presentist.
Center or margin: revisions of the English renaissance in honor of ... by Drakakis, John / Shakespeare Studies
When at the airport concourse in Rome he observes a fashionable, extravagantly made-up girl, who at that moment symbolized for him the West, he confesses: "How could I explain, how could I admit as reasonable, even to myself, my distaste, my sense of the insubstantiality and wrongness of the new world to which I had been so swiftly transported" (An Area of Darkness 286).
"Trapdoors into a bottomless past": V.S. Naipaul's early ambivalent ... by Ramraj, Victor J. / Journal of Caribbean Literatures
 
 
 
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