... as an opportunity to preach about the consequences of false witness.2 False witness was a serious sin in the fourteenth century, considered a breach against the Scriptural requirem ent to love one's neighbor. In their refusal to provide sufficient witnesses to the crime, W aldeby suggests, this com m unity...

... and short fiction. As astute as much of the critical work is, none of it addresses the cornerstone of Kiernan’s fiction: trauma. This essay considers Kiernan’s novel The Red Tree as a queer American gothic novel dealing with trauma and its lingering effects on its witnesses. Through its complex, fragmentary...

... place. Such works are expressive of cultural anxiety at the vanishing of the generation of eyewitnesses to the events of the Holocaust yet also act to defuse the unwelcome lessons such witnesses might impart. Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 Holocaust survivors...

...Mia Carter Abstract Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985...

...Laura Winkiel Abstract Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985...

...Barbara Harlow Abstract Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985...

... in Valenciennes, with Marguerite as a witness. Her use of fire as a metaphor to describe union with God foreshadows her death. Furthermore, The Mirror ’s emphasis on the insufficiency of language to describe the divine echoes Marguerite’s silence during her inquisitorial trial. However, these complaints against...

... of you w ill be left to bear witness . . .There w ill perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there w ill be no certainties, because we w ill destroy the evidence together w ith you. And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people w ill say the events you...

... own access is always mediated, not through witnessing what Shi has seen but through the act of reading, an act that is, despite the text’s historiographical signposting (as in the dedication to Iris Chang), the consumption of fiction . The imaginary Shi wrestles with his desire to read—explicitly...

... the tiered Spanish system, and the testimonies of the witnesses called by both Reavis and Reynolds affirm that, in this context, proving (or disproving) a person’s Latinx identity was easier said than done. Though the government eventually proved that Peralta-Reavis was not in any sense who she claimed...

... our comprehension. Pandemic-inspired articles, novels, stories, poems, blogs, tweets, videos, songs, and artwork are being produced at a prodigious rate as we try to make sense of what we all have, to varying degrees, witnessed and experienced for the last two years and continue to confront...

... too near the sun. The bond of wax melts from the feathers of his wings, and he becomes the first of many airborne human beings to plunge to his death in the sea. Ovid focuses not so much on the pity and terror as on the sheer amazement felt by witnesses of this first human flight: Some fisherman...

... years earlier: I have no legs And yet I go and stand And when I stand I run. Witness my hand. (Answer: a clock.)7 Blake s riddling infant says basically this: I am unbaptized a condition em phasizing absence o f religious faith yet I am so happy th at I am Joy. Theologically, this is a challenge...

... of memory and its cognates, amnesia and commemoration. Memory has witnessed a remarkable efflorescence in the past few years, both in scholarly work in the humanities and in popular efforts to address the collective forgetting of traumatic pasts. While the interrelationship between history (the study...

... the post-biblical witness-bear­ ing (a martyr is a witness ) by individual men and women. This alignment of his poem with the older text implies that the mythic, historical and fictional figures populating his poem includ­ ing the Neanderthal dead, prehistoric cave artists, Noah, Abraham, Melchisedec...

... "To bear witness to God is precisely not to state this extraordinary word." Emmanuel Levinas, OtherwiseThan Being 1. If it is to speak at all of spirit, to w hat m ust lyric address itself?To what bear witness? Spirit falls, a catastrophe. First, In its unlooked-for coming; still m ore in its harrow­ ing...

... the life of a Wit a warfare upon the earth. ?Ji * While Pope primarily controlled the publication and market­ ing of his Homeric translations, the 1717 WoiAswas Lintot s idea and largely Lintot s effort. The frontispiece portrait was an en­ graving done by George Vertue from Charles Jervas s 1714 oil...

...: for, well I weene T h at this same day, w hen she on Arlo sat, H er garm en t was so b rig h t an d w ondrous sheene, T h at my fraile wit cannot deuize to what It to com pare, n o r find like stuffe to that, As those three sacred Saints, though else m ost wise, Yet on m o u n t Thabor quite their wits...

... from the late six­ teenth through the seventeenth centuries in England. Clearly and convincingly, Rose argues that the early rïiodern period witnesses the emergence of a more passive but equally potent dimension of heroic identity.. . which privileges not the active confrontation with danger...

... in postcolonial contexts: Can a theoretical discourse invented in the West to make sense of Euro-American modernity, critics ask, make sense of the everyday traumas of the postcolonial world? One of the most influential monographs to pursue this question is Stef Craps’s Postcolonial Witnessing . Craps agrees...