...Lisa A. Barca This essay explores how the poets Emily Dickinson (American, 1830–1886), Giovanni Pascoli (Italian, 1855–1912), and Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian-Austrian, 1875–1926) each use celestial imagery, such as the sun and stars, to represent the modern mystery ushered in by scientific...

... the Closed World 20 ). Celestial democracy can be seen as resulting from an “anarchist” act having abolished the ontological difference between the government of humans on earth and the celebration of divine presences in the heavens. The term anarchist refers here to a moment in the astronomical...

..., jugglers, and other miracle-mongers they had previously encountered in Arabic and Indian folklore. As it happened, Giles himself at one point counted among these piecemeal translators of the Liaozhai . In 1877, he published an article entitled “Chinese Fiction” in the Shanghai-based journal Celestial...

... Melian, the forked path “parloit de la cheualerie celes- tiene & tu entendis de la seculer” (Sommer 6: 31; spoke of celestial chivalry and you understood [it] as secular).2 Both Professor Regalado and I also pointed to the fact that the post-Quest world of La Mort le roi Artu  was a world...

..., the sinister code switching comes from an elevated point, a promontory or a celestial body, and descends upon the dazed subject. Yet in the first stanza the stars do not resemble the radiating nests that Tsvetaeva so movingly conjures in her poem on Rilke. To the contrary, Crnjan­ ski’s stars appear...

... degni di guardar porci che d’avere sopra uomini signoria? (10. 10, 68) What more needs to be said, except that celestial spirits may sometimes descend even into the houses of the poor, whilst there are those in royal palaces who would be better employed as swine- herds than as rulers of men...

...: During the pain Mnemosyne held Her arms as one who prophesied.—At length Apollo shriek’d:—and lo! from all his limbs Celestial ! . . . . . . . (3. 133-36) The “single instant of the action”—according to Lessing, the one the visual artist...

... . Bone Martyn . “Narratives of African Immigration to the U.S. South: Dave Eggers's ‘What Is the What’ and Cynthia Shearer's ‘The Celestial Jukebox.’” CR: The New Centennial Review 10 . 1 ( 2010 ): 65 – 76 . Print . Brooks Kevin . “Dave Eggers's ‘What Is the What’ as World...

... to the physical laws that govern them. In contrast to the classical concep- tion of a variegated yet well-ordered cosmos, Newtonian science does not differen- tiate between terrestrial and celestial bodies; the theorems of modern physics are equally applicable to the earth and to the heavens. Moreover...

...” (Steinberg, Social 209). It is open to planetary horizons that admit unfathomable and nonhuman dimensions and can be apprehended in the tidal action that marks the earth’s rotational wandering through celestial gravita- tional fields. As Hester Blum claims of approaches to the ocean that resist the temp...

... their invocations perform it. Just as reflection on Andromache initiates the poem’s conceptual motion, so reflection on the swan engenders conceptual paralysis, when the poet-swan’s celestial con- vulsions (“son cou convulsif”) bring the first section to an abrupt and inconclusive end. Section 2 resumes...

... a position between angel and beast in a manner analogous to the Earth’s position at the midpoint of the celestial spheres (Aristotle, Physics 266 [207a]; Grene 62- 63). Just as the pre-modern view of language as performative dictates that our systems of representation, or languages, participate...

... and body. This prefigures the scene of Pim’s sacrifice when the celestial tins are devilishly transformed into macaronic claws, misused like the can-opener twisted into the pedagogue’s ploughshare and expressed with humorous afflatus: “howls 14 Ackerley also cites Beckett’s notes from...

... commentaries on geopolitics, particularly on China. From 1900 to his death in 1924, Lenin wrote a series of essays on Russia’s largest neighbor. His interest in China was not idiosyncratic. Around 1900, the “China question” became “the most pressing international issue’” ( Otte 1 ). The Celestial Empire...

... where her Jewish aunt who was murdered by the Nazis as a child is buried, translation as afterlife is not a celestial prom- ise but a material reality, encoded in the photographs of the living and the bones of the dead. Babel is a living tower, not a dead mausoleum. Translation scholars worry...

... to a Polish cemetery where her Jewish aunt who was murdered by the Nazis as a child is buried, translation as afterlife is not a celestial prom- ise but a material reality, encoded in the photographs of the living and the bones of the dead. Babel is a living tower, not a dead mausoleum. Translation...

... where her Jewish aunt who was murdered by the Nazis as a child is buried, translation as afterlife is not a celestial prom- ise but a material reality, encoded in the photographs of the living and the bones of the dead. Babel is a living tower, not a dead mausoleum. Translation scholars worry...

... where her Jewish aunt who was murdered by the Nazis as a child is buried, translation as afterlife is not a celestial prom- ise but a material reality, encoded in the photographs of the living and the bones of the dead. Babel is a living tower, not a dead mausoleum. Translation scholars worry...

... to a Polish cemetery where her Jewish aunt who was murdered by the Nazis as a child is buried, translation as afterlife is not a celestial prom- ise but a material reality, encoded in the photographs of the living and the bones of the dead. Babel is a living tower, not a dead mausoleum. Translation...

... uses of astronomical won- der, and in particular (to cite a convention Hume ridicules in the Dialogues on Natural Religion) the incorporation of celestial mechanics in apologetic “proofs from design.” Then, too, I missed discussion of the Rousseau of the two Discours, Lévi-Strauss’s choice...