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... u n ab a te d in the p resen t day. MIDDLEMARCH AND DANTE S FLAKES OF FIRE Andrew Thom pson has dem onstrated the pervasive presence of D ante s Vita Nuova and Commedia in George Eliot s novels, particularly Felix Holt, The Radical an d Daniel Deronda.1 In Middlemarch Thom pson focuses on Eliot s...

...Michael G. Cronin Rosemary Hennessy , Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organising on the Mexican Frontera ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 ). James Penney , After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics ( London : Pluto Press...

...Manuela Ceballos Abstract The life and works of the beguine Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. In 1310 Marguerite was burned alive in Paris as the first recorded “mystical heretic” of the French Inquisition. A few years earlier her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls , had also been burned...

... that they illustrate how this narrative potentially links fire, woodlands, the Sierra Nevada massif, the pathways of the sun, and the journeys of Coyote. The source of the sun here is clearly the eastern woodlands of the Sierra, however, not the Great Basin sagebrush. This suggests a more specific view...

...Dennis Sobolev Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 74 English Language Notes QUIDDITAS: GENERIC IDENTITY IN HOPKINS S POETRY T he first quatrain o f the famous octave o f H opkins s sonnet As kingfishers catch fire sketches o u t a fragm entary picture...

... about the poem , however, is its figurative expressions about Steele s treason ren d ered through the m otif of pyromania. In the poem, Steele evolves from one who discovers enough treason To set the Universe on Fire (1. 350) into a red hot Fire-Brand (1. 288) who sets his own trea­ sonous fires...

... recounts the failed rebellion o f an e ighth- ce n tu ry se lf-styled prophet against the Abbasid Caliphate, w hile the th ird poem, "The Fire-W orshippers," im agines the last days o f Persian resistance to Turkish conquest. Both are trag ic, vio le n t narratives, w hile the second and fo u rth poems...

... in The East Wing and set in starker tragicomic relief than in any other of Saki s acerbic attacks on the Edwardian world. The East Wing is where guests are staying at the Gramplains house party, only to discover in the middle of the night that the west wing is on fire. Lucien Wattieskeat,8like Reginald...

... to the four principles [hot, cold, moist, dry), the motion of these REBECCA TOTARO 19 3 latter bodies being o f tw o kinds: either from the centre or to the centre.These four bodies are fire, air, water, earth. Fire occupies the highest place among them all, earth the lowest, and tw o elements correspond...

... in the palace walk; Nor w inks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens; waken thou w ith me. Now droops the m ilkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glim m ers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. N ow slides the silent meteor...

..., and invites a parallel between taking a picture and firing a gun, the term "radio report" melds the act of transm itting w i-fi vocals across airwaves w ith the rapid and jarring eruption of sound "caused by the discharge of fire-arms or explosives."3 The O xford English Dictionary fu st defines the w ord "re...

... or the breaking down of elements in the alembic. Moreover, calcination cannot occur except by the application of heat, either slow and steady or intense. Which depends upon the m ethod employed. Joseph A. Mazzeo observes that the alche­ mists are generally careful to state that a special kind of fire must...

... Hudibras provided such discourse necessary for justifying a new political order. For the Royalists in power, however, the workings of Provi­ dence had to be interpreted as supportive of their cause a difficult task in the face of ensuing plague and fire. Nowhere is this strategy more obvious, explains...

... tains, and lie down. Lie down between the hand-sewn quilts shipped from India in a crate then covered in an outer cotton case stitched to the padding w ith a fine pink thread. The quilts smell of an antiseptic powder, an anti-fungal, Mars. We lie down beneath the blankets in front o f the fire. It's...

.... Swedenberg, Jr., et al., 20 vols. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1956-) an d are cited parenthetically by volume, page, an d line. 2Jam es A nderson W inn, When Beauty Fires the Blood : Love and the Arts in the Age ofDryden (Ann A rbor: U o f M ichigan P, 1992) 92 n. 53. 3William Shakespeare, The Norton...

... with the True! My companion and teacher are Satan with Pharaoh. Satan had been threatening with fire, and he did not retract his claim. Pharaoh was drowned in the sea but did not retract his claim or recognize any medium [ wāsiṭa ]. And if I had been killed or crucified, or my arms and legs had been cut off...

... rly and possessive v illa in w h o thre a te n s Laurey w ith per­ sonal v io le n ce and her hom e w ith arson sh o u ld she refuse his advances. His last nam e, Fry, associates him w ith the fire he w ill use to try to kill Laurey and C urly late in the play.The fact th a t he lives in an old sm...

... and as such is undergone. Because form s accelerated suffer binarism. They undergo. They collapse. As a frame relay cloud m ight make the link. It could be a sky. It could be a node. It could be the entire system on fire. Because the m om ent carries a signal into itself. He dons the beauty of the waves, so, so. English...

... of Eresos, Alcmaeon reported, “The eye obviously has fire within, for when the eye is struck fire flashes out.” 37 This light within the eye played a decisive role in the Platonic theory of vision of emitted light and was frequently debated among medieval philosophers and scientists, including...