Hoffmann's Chronic Dualisms

Webber, Andrew

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“…His view askance, echoing the composition of the house, is cast with the placement of the ‘Torwege […] an der Seite’ (‘doorway […] at the side’), which ‘zugleich zur Haustüre diente’ (p. 166; ‘at the same time served as the front door’). As in Der Sandmann , where the emphasis on the ‘sidelong gaze’ also forces the reader ‘to look askance’ and ‘the “Perspektive” effects a confusion of perspectives’, Theodor's misaligned view infiltrates the narrative (Webber , 142–143). He mirrors the asymmetry of the house, which in turn is visible in his mirror.…”

Section: Locating the Self On The Margins: Visionmentioning

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Love at First Sight

Wickerson

2014

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E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1817 Gothic novella, Das öde Haus, and Gérard de Nerval's 1853 novella of personal reminiscence, Sylvie, may not at first sight seem obvious choices for comparison. But their presentations of deluded love disclose both the paradoxical approach to ‘marginality’ in the nineteenth century, and the inextricable conjunction of theme and form in narrative more generally. In these stories, the protagonists are given undiluted narrative authority. They are socially and literarily central figures who are drawn to the margins of society. Yet their modes of storytelling belie their pretentions of social ‘normality’. Both narrators transform the dimensions of time and space in their retrospective accounts of deluded infatuation. In so doing, they illustrate their own collusions in the creation of and identification with liminal figures. The novellas depict strikingly similar presentations of voyeurism, narcissism and fetishism, suggesting that ultimately it is the partial nature of the gaze that imbues the women with desirability. ‘Otherness’ becomes appealing as its unknowability allows the projection of the protagonists' own fantasies. As the mysteries are unveiled, desire evaporates. Marginality thus infiltrates theme and form in these novellas, while the narrators occupy an unstable space between centre and periphery.

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Section: Locating the Self On The Margins: Visionmentioning

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Love at First Sight

Wickerson

2014

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“…Pat Callaghan during this time also expressed an intention to run for NB NDP leader at the meeting. 73 The multiple meetings of 16 October in Fredericton officially split the NB NDP in two, with both J. Albert Richardson and Pat Callaghan claiming to be party leader and possessing rival party executives. 74 The non-Waffle wing of the party requested that the federal NDP deal with the split at the upcoming meeting of the federal council, scheduled for 12-14 November.…”

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Entryism in Theory, in Practice, and in Crisis: The Trotskyist Experience in New Brunswick, 1969-1973

Webber¹

2009

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Since the emergence of a distinct Trotskyist faction within the Communist movement by the mid-1930s, the policy of entryism has been a favourite tactic among Trotskyists, particularly in the West. Entryism would be a major factor in the creation of the New Brunswick Waffle in 1970, the provincial wing of the Waffle movement that had emerged in the New Democratic Party (NDP) the previous year. 1 Conflicting interpretations over the implementation of entryist theory, however, would also help split and destroy the NB Waffle by the end of 1971 and inflict lethal damage on the nascent Trotskyist movement in New Brunswick. The ultimate impact of the crisis in entryism provoked by the Trotskyist experience in New Brunswick in 1970-71 was to raise major doubts about the theory and practice of entryism among Canadian Trotskyists, culminating in the fracturing of the League for Socialist Action (LSA), Canada's pre-eminent Trotskyist organization. The events that surrounded the NB Waffle therefore proved to be a turning point in the history of Trotskyist strategy in Canada. The strategy of entryism was first known as the "French Turn," as it was first in France where Trotskyists debated and engaged in entryism. In June 1934, Trotsky himself declared that his followers in that country should seek to enter the French Socialist Party, a shift in policy that was provoked by the formation of a United Front. Trotsky believed that the Trotskyist movement had to be within the United Front in order to not be excluded from the shaping of a potential revolution. Trotsky thought that an independent Trotskyist organization would be isolated from the larger leftist movement and even destroyed. By entering larger leftist parties, Trotskyists could exert influence among the working classes with less risk of being isolated. 2 Entryism was thus born as a pragmatic response to the local weakness of sectarian Trotskyist appeals by entering larger political org anizations that offer both protection from isolation and access to the larger working class. 3 Almost as soon as Trotsky proposed entryism to his French followers, however, the idea sparked debate. 4 While there are conflicting interpretations of what exactly entryism is and what it is supposed to achieve, there are some basic tenets of the strategy that offer a good broad definition of entryism. According to John Tomlinson, entryism (be it Trotskyist or not) has three basic objectives for its participants:

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Hoffmann's Chronic Dualisms

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