...Richard Rambuss Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 53 of 227 Spenser and Milton at Mardi Gras: English Literature, American Cultural Capital, and the Reformation of New Orleans Carnival...

..., by giving an account of what it was like for him as a person who had grown up in an orthodox Catholic family in America in the second half of the twentieth century to suddenly find himself, in reading Milton, to be living in a world where bitsiness was the rule. He had to learn to read things literally...

... For example, Milton, it has been argued, ‘‘intended’’ for me to resist Herod did at the time of the birth of Jesus. What if what the Wise Men from the East are reported to have said about the birth of a new leader is true? So they have come to kill the baby, just like the soldiers of Herod...

... to friends in their homes when he was a high schooler, he insisted that the lights be out so no one could see him. He was a sincerely religious person through and through. The English poet John Milton was a deeply religious man like...

.... The two sec- tions are mainly about referentiality. One of the new critical assumptions that is still built into the teaching of poetry is that a poem worthy of study ought to construct its referent rather than merely depict it. What makes a poem like Milton’s Lycidas high art...

... country. Empson's last published book, Milton's God ( 1961 ), takes polemic energy from what he found. This book argues against Christianity as a religion based on torture , and it praises Milton for his advocacy in making the best possible case to “justify the ways of God” ( Paradise Lost 1:26...

..., 1953–1978, by Paul de Man (1989)—and essays on the poetry of John Milton, Torquato Tasso, and Fernando Pessoa. He is completing a book to be titled The Critique of Pure Hipness: Affect, Experience, and the Work of the Work of Art...

... in the Future Tense.” Bill Dietz is a composer and, since 2007, the artistic director of the Berlin-­based Ensemble Zwischentöne. He is currently the co-chair­ of music/sound in Bard Col- lege’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Dietz’s work examines the geneal- ogy of the concert...

.../epc/authors/ duplessis. Angus Fletcher is distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative litera- ture at CUNY Graduate School. Author of books on allegory, Spenser, and Milton, he edited The Literature of Fact for the English Institute. Harvard University Press has published his...

.... Miller, Ruth A. Snarl: In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Milton, Cynthia E., ed. Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling­ in Post-­ Shining Path Peru. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Quartermain, Peter. Stubborn...

... half hidden by them; this is best thought of as a geopolitical mutation in older traditions of radical English dissent—Milton by way of Massachu- setts. Alternately, literary internationalists can lay out the ways that godly writers in early New England began puzzling out their relation...

... that they were compared to gold. The Spice Islands, part of today’s Indonesia, became irresistible to the Occidental as early as the beginning of the 1500s.14 One can say that the dangerous voyages from Europe to the Spice Islands were the precursor to the Western colonization of Asia. Giles Milton writes...

... than sheer chaos. Historically, however, pandemonium —a word coined by John Milton in Paradise Lost —meant the abode of all demons. 7 More than one critic has remarked Peace's evocations of Milton in his earlier works; here we have the crossing into Japanese folklorism, that crossing...

... on Milton’s “Comus.” Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Fletcher Angus . 1975 . “ Northrop Frye: The Critical Passion .” Critical Inquiry 1 , no. 4 : 741 – 75 . Fletcher Angus . 1991 . Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...

... structure of literature, its formation as the conscious cultural arm of a new imperial nation state (one could think emblematically of the Elizabethan stage and the Elizabethan court, or of Milton’s role in Cromwell’s government), made it, in both its audience and its assumptions, a class-based...

... and the Politics of Desti- nation in China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Cohen, Milton A. Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. Comer, Krista. Surfer Girls in the New World Order. Durham, NC: Duke...

...: Duke University Press, 2001. Rodríguez, Ileana, ed. The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Russell, Jamie. Queer Burroughs. New York, Palgrave, 2001. Silver, Victoria. Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton’s Irony. Princeton, N.J...

.... In an age of fledgling mercantile empire building, it is not at all controversial for writers to present the world as an entity that can somehow be experi- enced all at once, here, now. This is what lies behind that gloriously ambiva- lent moment in Milton when Adam and Eve, freed from Paradise, step out...

...- ford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. Rajan, Balachandra. Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Reizbaum, Marilyn. James Joyce’s Judaic...

... by John Milton. In Williams, we have not the voice of rebellious Milton daring au- tonomy but Milton defender of heteronomy, the one whose highest goal was to submerge his voice into an angelic choir. These various Miltons are all present in Paradise Lost. Williams’s accommodation of Greek...