Byronize

Definitions

1. To make something, or someone, more Byronic
2. To look at the world as if one were a Byronic character

Equivalents

Examples

“(17–20) No longer trying to Byronize her heroines only to discover⟳ that female commitments alienate them from the romance of Byronic alienation, Hemans makes Byron accountable to her values. Recasting Childe Harold is a recurring[…]”

“Seeing as Conrad sees, the Critical Review⟳ neatly Byronizes: “A figure⟳ approaches — it is Gulnare. A spot of blood is all eloquence. The deed is done” (RR B:2:634). The first impulse of signification is to imagine⟳ the[…]”

“What makes it so painful to predict⟳ his future candidly is the fact that this Russian Byronizing tradition has an undercurrent of unconscious self-destructiveness, constantly oscillating between would-be folk hero and would-be martyr,[…]”

“My dear, I remember⟳ men who Byronized themselves to death. I have⟳ seen much; I have⟳ seen men who, for example, took a fancy to peasants, and ended with drinking vodka in peasant dramshops. There is no measure⟳ with us, and there cannot[…]”

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