.... Ammons summed up their ongoing agon in a note after a visit to New Haven in 1973: “Harold wants me to be intense, mad, consistently high. I want to be ordinary, casual, a man of this world.” This essay examines their decades-long dialogue in letters, poems, and essays. “I Went to the Summit...

...- sisted in all my efforts. Unfortunately, my every attempt requesting visitation and telephone communication with my daughter was continually denied. At this point, I was fed up with the social worker, so I decided to write her supervisor. I expressed the social worker's uncooperativeness...

... to visit a group of geoglyphs in the Sonoran Desert called the Blythe Intaglios, outside Blythe, California, along the Colorado River separating California from Arizona. These massive glyphs are scraped into the same desert whose hostility the US Border Patrol has recruited in its cynical policy...

... European knowledge" (19). Nevertheless, as Porter argues, the Grand Tour (which entailed visiting cultures still European, but yet different) involves "the implicitly transgressive character" (27) usu- ally associated with more exoticist travel: "Leaving home always has an element of promise as well...

... it reliably in nature paintings of the sublime, in tourist records of visits to sublime prospects, and in the panoramas which replicated sublime views for an urban audience. Thomas Cole's 1836 View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow (fig...

...-not- possibly-be-of-any-concern-to-you pivot." As Judee Norton shows in "J. Norton #59900," even a seasoned inmate affects "a hip-slung swagger" in the yard when summoned by the captain. The captain criticizes her son's disrespectful manner during his last visit. She defends him—after traveling all day...

... with them products such as Indian textiles, Southeast Asian spices, dates, and copper work, these merchants dominated the trade of Mocha. European merchants were also continuously installed in Yemen’s ports during the decades under consid- eration. The English and the Dutch had visited and traded...

... use and enjoy. Summer folk visit the cemetery at Grover’s Corner to read the tombstones — “laughing at the funny words” — and “genealogists come up from Boston” to research family histories (86 – 87). It has not been relegated to the status of abject or a heterotopia, as Michel...

.... They went to California in early- August, where Matthiessen spent nine days with Chavez and his United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), getting to know the labor organizer, visiting picket lines, interviewing workers and growers, and learning the history of the farm workers' movement...

...). The relationship of a marker to a sight or place is more complicated in the case of tourism that takes Che as its object. Che himself is not a building or a monument or a place that can be visited (although of course he was visited by political tourists of a certain renown during his lifetime...

... group of English travelers to the East and were certainly among the first English women to visit India. Like Mariam Khan, their encounters are not secondary to anyone, although they have for the most part avoided scholarly attention. The intervention of this essay, in part at least, lies in its...

... journalist Xiao Qian recalled: "How our texie eventually developed I cannot say exactly. I only remember that, during the 1930s, the Czech writer Kisch came to China, and he promoted his literary form of texie in our country" (qtd. in Wagner, 326-27). Kisch visited China in early 1932 and out...

...-­year exile. I visited for a week to address translation problems regarding his book on Baruch Spinoza, The Savage Anomaly (Negri 1991). We met several times during the week, and in the course of our discussions he suggested I move to Paris. We could meet once a week, I remember him proposing...

.... On arriving at her first destination, she admits to “being at a loose end: the character of Libreville has changed so drastically since Kingsley’s visit that there were few points at which I could make meaningful comparisons.” She adds, “I had encoun- tered neither the past nor the present in which I...

... – 313 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Tinniswood Adrian . 1998 . The Polite Tourist: Four Centuries of Country House Visiting . London : National Trust . Urry John Larsen Jonas . 2011 . The Tourist Gaze 3.0 . Los Angeles : Sage . Valdez Moses Michael...

... with Bertolt Brecht and Soviet modernists during Mei's visit to the Soviet Union in 1935, I am interested in a different aspect of this culture of the Peking Opera, namely, the cross-cultural translations and 1 I would like to thank S. I. Hsiung's daughter Deh-I Hsiung for allowing me to study...

... Sinykin is a visiting assistant professor at the College of Wooster, where he specializes in contemporary American literature, digital humanities, literature and economics, and apocalypse. His book manuscript, Neoliberal Apocalypse: American Literature and the Long Downturn, 1965–2016 , argues...

... playing the piano, and out through another door, where it catches up with Elizabeth as she circles around the house. Pausing outside a window, Elizabeth watches Mrs. Bennet cajoling Mr. Bennet to visit their new neighbor at Netherfield Park before she finally enters the house. In following Elizabeth...

... literary and cultural artifacts not only to the oft-visited terrains of history, political science, psychology and philosophy, but also to those more seldom mapped, like music and architecture, and even to those that lie seemingly beyond the fields we know: the physical sciences and mathematics...

... is willing to push the boundaries of accepted interdisciplinar- ity, to construct pathways from literary and cultural artifacts not only to the oft-­ visited terrains of history, political science, psychology, and philosophy but also to those geographies seldom mapped, like music and architecture...