cyclicism

cyclicism

(ˈsɪklɪˌsɪzəm) or

cyclicity

n
the property of being cyclic
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cyclicism

the belief that history repeats itself, as suggested in the writings of Arnold Toynbee. Also cyclicity. — cyclic, adj.
See also: History
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The book's first chapter explores the ways that Ravel's finales wrangle with what Puri calls the "fundamental ambivalence" of thematic cyclicism, "its potential both to foster and to undermine sense of forma1 coherence" (p.
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Instead, diastole is likened to pregnancy, and pregnancy to diastole, and both are figured as destructive cyclicism. There is no female generative agency in this poem, but rather image after image of introspective feminized stagnancy, which the prince and the speaker redeem with "the noise of striking clocks." Neither heartbeat, nor conception, nor gestation, nor delivery can be completed without the prince.
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