...Thangam Ravindranathan Abstract This essay considers the unworldly setting of Jean Rolin’s novel Ormuz (2013), composed around the attempt by a shadowy character named Wax to swim across the Strait of Hormuz. This twenty-one-nautical-mile-wide stretch of sea separating Iran from the Arabian...

... the Execution of Louis XVI at Madame Tussaud's: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's `Les Phantasmes de M. Redoux.'” Symposium 49 . 3 ( 1995 ): 190 -202. ____. “Waxing Eloquent: Wax Figures in Literature and Cinema from 1840-1935.” Diss. Brown University, 1995 . Brewer, Wilmon. “The Cerestae...

... by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether the librillo de memoria that Don Quixote discovers in the Sierra...

...). Medieval writers were aided in the process of composition by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether...

... by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether the librillo de memoria that Don Quixote discovers in the Sierra...

... by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether the librillo de memoria that Don Quixote discovers in the Sierra...

... of lovers,” but, to cite Auden, a “commingling of strangers.” With Thangam Ravindranathan, we move from the seaside cliff to the maritime strait, and from geopoetics to petrocriticism. Ravindranathan investigates Jean Rolin’s Ormuz , a 2013 novel about a shadowy character named Wax who attempts...

... melisphylla et cerinthae ignobile gramen, tinnitusque cie et Matris quate cymbala circum. (Virgil 4: 55–64; my emphasis) Glad with some strange joy, they [the bees] cherish nest and nestlings; hence they deftly mould fresh wax and fashion the gluey honey...

... . WINTER 2000 Volume 52, NumberON THE SUBLIME/1 1 MATS MALM On the Technique of the Sublime HE SUBLIME IS CLEARLY an inexhaustible source of discussion, although Tthe intensity of interest in the topic may wax and wane. Lately...

... in science” (p. 1). In direct retort to anti-theoretical attacks launched to provoke the “science wars” that waxed as the “culture wars” of the l990s waned, the contributors to Inscribing Science demonstrate the empirical as well as critical purchase of postmodern discourses on the concrete...

... in science” (p. 1). In direct retort to anti-theoretical attacks launched to provoke the “science wars” that waxed as the “culture wars” of the l990s waned, the contributors to Inscribing Science demonstrate the empirical as well as critical purchase of postmodern discourses on the concrete...

... creation of printing comes down to us through devo- tional images impressed on paper in the Central Asian merchant towns that were China’s outlet to the rest of the world; within a few years of Edison’s patent- ing of the phonograph, wax records were being made of Zuñi songs and Pacific Northwest...

... Records, 1969–75. RG 389. National Archives, College Park, MD. Tovy, Tal. “Manifest Destiny in POW Camps: The U.S. Army Reeducation Program during the Korean War.” Historian, vol. 73, no. 3, 2011, pp. 503. Trinh, T. Minh-ha. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics...

..., and ends up founding the monastery of Sant Martí, the warrior saint, atop the moun- tain of Canigó. The story of the poem is thus one of struggle. On the one hand, we read of the struggle between Christian Catalans and the Moors. Verdaguer, for the war scenes, waxes belligerent and blessedly...

...). For an account of Halbwachs’s later reception, see Huyssen and Nora. SECOND WORLD, SECOND SEX/219 the renowned Marxist author of Ways of Seeing (1972), waxes nostalgic about agricultural and industrial labor in France, Kaplan, the ex-Maoist who collabo- rated...

... the transformation of the workforce into the “deracinated, anonymized, zombified face of late capitalist global labor.” In turn, she argues, the literary characters that people such “hollowed out” seascapes can only be “subject effects,” as it is the case with Rolin’s elusive protagonist, Wax, who endeavors to cross...

... giver. See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair Is, hair of the head, numbered. Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould Will have waked and have waxed and have walked with the wind what while we slept...

... as containing a pelican, a remora, a lanhado from Africa, a goose which has grown in Scotland on a tree, a flying squirrel, another squirrel like a fish, all kinds of bright colored birds from India . . . the hand of a mermaid, the hand of a mummy, a very natural wax hand under glass . . . a cup of an E...

... remarkable erudition, however, when he writes that “the point of departure for Blanchot’s theoretical meditation is the episode in The Odyssey in which Ulysses encoun- ters the song of the Sirens, or rather, does not encounter it, since, making use of his habitual wiles, he stops his ears with wax...

... remarkable erudition, however, when he writes that “the point of departure for Blanchot’s theoretical meditation is the episode in The Odyssey in which Ulysses encoun- ters the song of the Sirens, or rather, does not encounter it, since, making use of his habitual wiles, he stops his ears with wax...