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...Sarah Rivett Abstract In the Book of Genesis, the raven’s failure to return to Noah’s ark proves his apostasy. Biblical exegetes from Augustine to Jonathan Edwards describe the raven’s bad terrestrial habits: a carnivorous, scavenging nature enables the raven to survive on dead animals washed up...

... and thus forcing the reader to wrestle with the hermeneutical challenges that the legacy of slavery presents. Flight to Canada concerns the plight of three fugitive slaves. Reed conjures two of them as figures of resistance: Raven Quickskill evokes the radical slave lecturer and author epitomized...

..., despite their disavowal of folkloric, emblematic, and theological understandings of the world. Thus, she shows that eighteenth-century ornithology inherited the longstanding Judeo-Christian (Biblical) bias against the raven as a landbound diabolic creature. This persistent Western bias is brought...

... (2015), the study uses Perry Miller’s The Raven and the Whale (1956) as a framework, illuminating how conversations between texts prove different generations and ethnicities of American writers “belong to the same canon.” Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American...

... and never fussy. It demands and deserves the same from its readers. In Word, Birth, and Culture, Daneen Wardrop also considers Poe, but with less happy results. The opening chapter on ‘‘The Raven’’ suffers from a too...

... invention of the telescope) and a tantalizing prospect of pious conquest according to a Christian imperialist worldview. If Hill s article makes an understudied scienti c discipline more familiar, Sarah Rivett s makes a familiar one more strange. Rivett takes up the gure of the raven in eighteenth-century...

... ‘‘The Raven However, the life-arc of AL, still rising, makes for a much happier narrative. Like an old-style historian, I will first set down my impressions of AL gathered while digging (not brainstorming) through graduate school attheUniversityofWisconsin.AfterjoiningthefacultyatDukeUni- versity...

... the forest animals, describing how “wild beasts of every name and kind,—huge night-birds, bats, and owls . . . perished in that fiery storm [along with the] long-winged buz- zard, and croaking raven . . . .” (“HS,” 194). It is as though these figura- tive victims of slavery must be redeemed...

... of this community have been largely shaped by Perry Miller’s The Raven and the Whale (1956), which depicts a landscape dominated by the divide between the genteel, Whiggish Knickerbocker magazine set and the market-oriented...

... . 20 For more on the history of HAART and PrEP, see Fauci and Marston 2015 . 19 My depiction of Y.T. as a figure for the novel’s racializing immunitarianism must be inflected by a key plot point: her rape by Raven, one of Rife’s enforcers and a figure who literally carries a serum...

.... —Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty describes, above, an image that star- tles a group of mourners on its time-worn errand of burying the dead. The grave they seek is not, however, the ravenous grave of Southern defeat and memory that gapes threateningly in Allen...

... by the reading of novels The Confessions, Boyeson argues, shows how Rousseau sought refuge in fiction from ‘‘the ‘sordid’ reality which sur- rounded him He read ‘‘with a ravenous appetite for the intoxication whichhecravedmoreandmoreLiketheopiumhabitthecrav- ing for fiction grew upon him, until the fundamental...

... Scarlett runs to Mammy to nurse, [t]he rosebud mouth attached to the black moon in the brown breast, the curving back of the loving woman lifting the child to her pleasures, as the child, awake, untouched by stays and hoops, stands on tippy-toe to get her fill of pleasure, all raven-haired...

... one, because to be human is to be incomplete. Only those who, like the old woman, function at an exclusively bestial, appeti- 316  American Literature tive level—“she was ravenous for a son-in-law,” we are told (177)—or who exist on a purely spiritual plane, like her daughter...

... Douglass’ Paper .” Slavery and Abolition 33 , no. 2 : 251 – 64 . Miller Perry . 1997 . The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . First published 1956. Mott Frank Luther . 1930 . A History of American...

..., the image goes so far as to invoke a strain of abolitionist maternal hagiography as Virginia shields her vulnerable offspring from the ravenous specu- lations of the slave trader, whom Lincoln ironically resembles in this restaging. Two other Punch images from 1863 cast the ubiquitous...

... important critical antecedent for any discussion of elephants in Moby-­Dick is Perry Miller’s The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1956). Miller contends that Melville may have drawn on Cornelius...

... and European conventionalism. In an argument that directly opposes mine, Rozelle, echoing Buell’s position, contends that Poe regards nature as a chaos to be dominated and brought to order by humanity. Finally, Hillard reads “The Raven” as embodying a US gothic tradition...

..., clamorous, ravening desire. The vitiated body, full of indescribable and mysterious pain, the still more tortured mind, sinking under a burden of remorse, guilt, fear, and awful imagery, both unite in one desperate, inces- sant demand for opium. (WH, 329) Compromised manhood means...

... in this case we have seemingly a “mixed-race” cat, whereas in Pussy Meow , mistress’s first cat is named “Old Blackie” on account of her black color. Daisy’s mother is, we recall, “black as coal, with a long tail and white feet,” “her fur soft and glossy as a raven’s wing,” reminding the reader of how...