...This chapter discusses the idea of the unforeseeable, which is deemed as the subject of all tragedies of fate. It uses Oedipus and Samson as examples, and cites the loss of their eyes as a result of their structural blindness, or their refusal to see the obvious. The chapter stresses...

...Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go involves a termporal experiment concerned with reconciling an unexpected revelation with the themes of freedom and fate. This chapter shows that the control of perspective in a first person narration is also a structure that binds together...

... argues that a closer examination of bad editing can help to understand why some badfilms are celebrated as ‘so bad they’re good’ while others are cultified in different ways, as ‘just’ bad. Analysis of editing in Manos: The Hands of Fate and Plan 9 From Outer Space...

... writing explores the critical traces of Romanticism, and tries to determine whether this writing conflates the concepts of providence and fate with the discourse of trauma. It also states that Sebald reminds readers that there are some features of knowledge which remain beyond their grasp. Cheyette Bryan...

... Plutarch Plutarch Parallel Lives of Aemilius Paullus and Timoleon Polybius tychē Timaeus nemesis Tyche Apologue aretē virtue Geiger J Swain S C R Tatum W J Blindness synkrisis Várhelyi Z Exemplarity Alternation Mutability Fate and fortune Emotion This chapter investigates the role...

...This chapter presents a reading of Benjamin’s Fate and Character (Schicksal und Charakter). The terms ‘fate’ and ‘character’ are defined in part by an attempt to rethink what is designated by them, which are, of course, definitions to be understood as their ‘fate...

...The last chapter culminates with Friedkin’s most ambitious films, bringing the mysteries of faith and fate to the fore most explicitly. The Exorcist and Sorcerer were made relatively early in the director’s career, one a major success with most critics...

... the reassertion of nature at the end of Treatise 1.4.7 as a crucially Pyrrhonian-Apelleticmoment moment that presents atûchikos finding about human fortune and fate. Nature more generally is rendered in Hume as the press of humanity’s fatedness to impressions or appearances...

..., and looks at Woolf’s holograph drafts, which tell only a part of the story of her process of composition. The chapter also examines the time sequences and the passage of time in Woolf’s novels. It determines that Woolf used numbers of time as part of her struggle to master twists of fate and unforeseen...

... interpretation of the scene of the Fall of Man. The chapter considers moments of becoming human in the poem, such as the choice of the vine as a nurse and the subject’s desire to resemble nature in light of Benjamin's concept of the mimetic faculty. Bibliography Benjamin, Walter , ‘ Fate and Character...