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... f Saturn (1995), W.G. Sebald misplaces a church tower, m oving it from its historical home on Norfolk's north­ eastern coast to the Suffolk shoreline that his narrator explores. "U n til about 1890," he w rites, "w h a t was known as Eccles Church Tower still stood on Dunwich beach, and no one had...

...Silke Horstkotte Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 V isu al M em o ry a n d E k f h r a s i s in W . G. S e b a l d s Th e R ing s of S aturn S ilk e h o r s t k o t t e f G. Sebald's The Rings o f Saturn e m p lo ys a s tro n g ly visu a l m e m o ry co n ­ s tru c...

... from the Poles. They are the 7 Planets, of old conceived to move in 7 several Spheres, that like so many Wheels carried them about. T heir Names are Saturn, Ju p i­ ter, Mars, Sol, Mercury, Venus & th e M oon. Saturn Ju p iter & Mars are above the Sun, Mercury Venus and the Moon be­ neath. The M oon...

.... Some critics read The­ seus' closing "Firste M oevere" speech as sym ptom atic only o f pagan unknowing, because Saturn, not Jupiter, was shown to be the planetary influence that drove events to Arcite's death. However, I cannot help reading Theseus' assertion that "That thilke Moevere stable...

... a general impression of semantic range and I do not cite medieval and vulgar Latin dictionaries. 11Solomon and Saturn, line 488; q u o ted as it appears in E. V. K. D obbie, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, T he Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 6 (New York: C olum bia UP; L ondon: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1942...

... knowledge. If Anouk Lang shows us how Cartesian tools o f spatial m astery can be adapted to subaltern uses, Kelvin Knight's "Sebald's Dissecting Table: Subverting Cartesian Rigidity in The Rings o f Saturn" em phatically returns us to scenes of th e ir critique. Knight argues that Sebald's sem i...

...Neil Ramsey Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 D e L a n c e y s T o u r : M ilita ry B a rra c k s a n d th e E n d o - C o lo n iza tio n o f E n g la n d in THE 1790S1 N eil Ram sey In Rings o f Saturn, W. G. Sebald describes a w a lk in g to u r across m odern...

... th e ir feet rather than up to the "fa r horizons" are lain Sinclair's D o w n rive r (1991), W illia m Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (1991), andW . G. Sebald's The Rings o f Saturn (1998). 22 Henri Lefebvre, The P roduction o f Space, trans. Donald N icholson-S m ith (London: Blackwell, 1991 ), 411...

...." I raised an index finger to signal that I was beginning to catch on. "The Star o f Bethlehem?" I asked. "Yep," Jones replied. "Buddha was from Venus too." He adjusted his glasses. "And Krishna, the founder of the Hindu religion, came from Saturn." "Peculiar and yet familiar," I thought, as Jones...

... that his Irish correspondent was “neither a Saint or Conjuror,” but he “convinc’d no body.” On the same day Bolingbroke wrote Ford that he worried that Swift was wandering from one “ideal world to another,” and that he may be “freezing in Saturn, burning in Mercury,” an apparent hint at some kind...