... Pronoun use Sonnet 24 Poetic allusions third-person sonnets Sonnets 25–6 Pairs and trios Sonnets 97–8 The year 1599 This chapter and the next one analyse the pyramid steps in the fair-youth section of Sonnets, focusing on the steps’ internal organisation and on verbal...

... perspective, on Hardy’s fiction as well as his use of third-person narrative to defend his characters mirroring the role of defence counsel. It contends that the use of a limited third-person narrative demonstrates the legal complexity of establishing mens rea as well as the difficulty...

... are not constrained by a focus simply on ethics. Rather, the chapter argues that his approach to thinking ethics without theory or foundations is one in which the political is always already implicated. In order to develop this reading, the chapter emphasises the role of the ‘third person’ as the figure which...

...In several books, Roberto Esposito draws heavily on Maurice Blanchot’s work to develop the notion of a “third person,” a figure of impersonality or neutrality that would escape the binary of personhood/depersonalization that structures the law and philosophical concepts of selfhood. Blanchot often...

... of this construction type in the following periods. The hypothesis of the importance of the simplification of the verbal paradigm for the frequency decrease of the subjunctive is challenged by the observation that third person singular subjunctives contributed most to the survival of the category mood in all periods...