Muscle
Obliqueness: Adductor Muscle Impression on Left versus Right Vahes
In contrast, much poetry (particularly many lyric poems of the last hundred years or so) does not contain explicit characters and plot; it is common for poetry to feature a much greater degree of
obliqueness and suggestiveness than in many novels, plays and films.
Or, is lesbian desire better expressed through
obliqueness? There are no clear and easy answers to these questions, but it is important to acknowledge the questions as ones we must continue to ask, for they alert us to the difficulties facing a writer who seeks to transgress the norms and ends up instead, often against her will, catering to the fantasies of mainstream readers.
Their extravagance and
obliqueness reveals itself even more resoundingly as a tone of artifice, a certain spuriousness of character--and indeed these features can be ascribed to a kind of "essayism," a writing practice entrusted to a sense beyond that of imagination, to a truth sometimes more fantasized than thought.
This is made possible by the semantic
obliqueness and ambiguity of the names that result in many different interpretations.
We are not dealing with something straightforward that can be filleted, labeled and set out in instruction manuals: we are faced with an
obliqueness that comes to us from the Gospels, where Christ repeatedly refuses to spell out what he is trying to draw out of people.
obliqueness of manner, coupled with its frequent blurriness of meaning,
Translation encounters the twists of language, its equivocations, the indirectness, the
obliqueness of its interpretive trajectories.
In "Rabbit," the sexual rapprochement between Gudrun Brangwen and Gerald Crich is mediated by a "pornographic"
obliqueness that affords a thrilling glimpse into "the obscene beyond." Birkin's stoning of the moon's reflection, following immediately afterward, dramatizes the cleansing and sexually uniting effect of direct confrontation, involving interpenetration of the mental and the physical, consciousness and the unconscious.
The contrast between the
obliqueness with which Woolf depicts Crosby and the immediacy of other characters' streams of consciousness lends the servant's characterization a sense of incompleteness.