...Padma Rangarajan Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 Lalla R ookh and th e AFTERLIFE OF ALLEGORY Pa d m a R a n g a r a j a n Mr. M oore o u g ht not to have w ritte n Lalla Rookh, even for three thousand guineas. . . . It is not, however, a failure, so m uch...

... nature of personhood as it contextualizes, and is contextualized by, various notions of spirit and the afterlife through a curation of scholarship and creative work. As an interdisciplinary locus of inquiry that may lead to transdisciplinary study and dialogue, personhood operates beyond both empirical...

... self are challenged by the manner in which the social self (as represented in social-media technologies) can now endure beyond the physical self in postmortem, expanding and redefining the afterlife as a “relational virtual space populated by absent presences.” 47 Some Indigenous scholars...

... down . . . from generation to generation” and tarry in the present. Burney frames the trace as an afterlife of an event that cannot be quite integrated into the broader scope of “history” as such but which leaves behind profound formal remainders. Burney’s dedication thus theorizes how to read Romantic...

... doubt the stories. Resaying the moniker forces others to be a witness to an insistent Black afterlife. The name Candyman superimposes itself among the murdered and brutalized, and repeating this name is an insistence of the anger and terror that Black existence lives through. It reverberates through...

... archives and ethically fraught writers. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Regents of the University of Colorado 2024 confessional Sylvia Plath Margery Kempe self-fashioning afterlife Reflecting on her time as a young writer in an MFA program, Melissa Febos...

... needing burial goods for the afterlife well into the Christian era. In the middle of that poem s second half, which develops a Christian interpretation of the Seaferer s sufferings, the poet writes: Peah græf wille golde stregan brolpor his geborenum byrgan be deadum, majpum mislicum t hine mid wille, ne...

...-long memory, but because black lives are still imperiled and devalued by a racial calculus and a political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago. This is the afterlife of slavery—skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration and impoverishment...

... consciousness which implies an afterlife experience and moment-of-death con­ sciousness, which denotes mental activity during the deathprocess.10 James, however, anticipates these distinctions from a spiritual perspective: 36 English Language Notes Swedenborg never by any chance represents o n e s post...

... in the Intellectual Work o f Composi­ tion. Pittsburgh: Pittburgy UP, 2001. Pp. x + 288. pb. 0-8228-5752-3. Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn s Afterlife. O xford: O xford UP, 2000. Pp. x + 309. he. 0-19-818494-8. Stevenson, Ja n e and P eter Davidson, eds. Early Modern Women Poets: A n A n­ thology. O xford: O xford UP...

... the world of the European past, making Annula doubly inaccessible. Stach’s invocation of his hometown of Drohobyc is not an example of a prewar city with the communally shared “afterlife” of “a place that cannot be found in any contemporary atlas,” as Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer put...

... life mii dash zhaaboshkamang gaagige-minawaanigoziwining. and through doorways to the afterlife. 1 The births of Cu Culainn retold here are based on the story found in the Leabhar na hUidre ( Book of the Dun Cow ) from the early twelfth century, but the scribe at that time acknowledged...

... the sacred spirit w hile declaring the mate­ rial body to be profane.This dichotom y relies on an additional Roman Catholic binary of the material earth and heaven, wherein the spirit after death transcends the profane earth to reside in an afterlife removed from the earth. Demetria Martinez's MotherTongue...

... Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame andFantasy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. Pp. xii + 348. he. $29.95. 0-19-8183771. Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: Cam­ bridge UP, 2003. Pp. xx + 302. he. $60.00. 0-521-78147-7. pb. $22.00. 0521-78677-0. Elizabeth I. Autograph Compositions...

... of those near her, is replaced with a disembodied one. The poem ends with a memorial that disconnects the life it memorializes from living memory itself, and with Belinda assured she can “cease” to “mourn” (5.148). Thus art transforms a troubled history into a sign of a redemptive “afterlife,” but much...

... . Patterson Orlando . Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, with a New Preface . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2018 . Sexton Jared . “ People-of-Color Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery .” Social Text , no. 103 ( 2010 ): 31 – 56 . Slotkin Richard...

... in Cyberspace: the Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture. O xford: O xford UP, 2003. Pp. x + 270. he. $35.00. 0-19516051-7. Codell, Julie F. The Victorian Artist: Artists Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Pp. xiii + 376. he. $85.00. 0-521-81757-9. Cole...

... can't track this kind of stuff so well." "Robbing graves?Think that's been going on for a while, anyway." He shook his head no.That I wasn't even close. "W hat do you know of the afterlife?" he said then, still leaned back all casual, but his eyes not leaving me for an instant now. "That's what...

... less to do w ith the afterlife and everything to do w ith life here on earth. For Latinos especial­ ly this is an im portant point. Too often historically the Catholic Church has kept the Latino/a com m unity from responding to their dire circumstances, whether in their hom e­ land or in the United...