...Kate Rigby The Song of the Earth . By Jonathan Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Har- vard University Press, 2001. vii + 616 pp...

... upon Earth” and “Characters of Vertues and Vices.” Edited with an Introduction and Notes by RUDOLFKIRK. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1948. Pp. xiii + 214. $5.00. This handsomely turned out edition of two characteristic pieces of Hall’s should be thought of as one...

... . University of Washington 2006 Body, Earth, and Migration: The Poetics of Suffering in Zhang Wei’s September Fable Jian Xu he plea for “pure literature” (chun wenxue) on China’s literary scene Tin the 1990s must have sounded strange in an era of cultural stud- ies...

..., deforestation) are perceived; nostalgia for a pastoral past is honestly felt but recognized as impractical; devastation on a national, imperial, and even global scale is foretold; and hope for the earth’s future comes in a form largely symbolic or mythical—as vision more than prediction. Forster’s awareness...

... of everything that has been lost and forgotten on the earth's surface; and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1914 words-in-freedom epic, Zang Tumb Tumb , in which commercial inventories are used as overlays to explode (rather than preserve) memories. Jeffrey T. Schnapp's latest publications are SPEED limits...

...Ian Baucom Abstract Humanities scholars have given renewed attention to capitalism’s externalizations on our environment. The Anthropocene is a speculative epochal shift proposed by geologists to mark the accumulated effect of human industry on Earth’s future. The Anthropocene adds a layer...

... Portlandia , which premiered in 2011, avoids the future-oriented “inevitability effect” of the fin de siècle utopias by returning to an earlier moment in the utopian genre: the satirizing of a society somewhere on Earth. Portlandia presents a lightly fictionalized version of Portland, Oregon, as a happy...

... are located in the earth, in the sea, and on “the forehead of the encroaching flood”; that “the Deep” is to be found on the earth, in the earth, or in the sea; and that “they below” are men on earth, men beneath the sea, creatures of the deep, fishes, mermen, people of the lower world, and earth...

... with it a man who wondered much whether he and Christ Church could possibly be in flight. Sedate Oxford spinning daily like a top? Little wonder the thought struck Robert Burton as an astounding fancy, a “pro- digious Tenent, or paradox, of the earth’s motion.” Born exactly halfway between...

... concept of a living, conscious earth from which all blessings flow and to which gravity recalls these dispensations in a benevolent cycle of renewal. The religious response evoked by a full realization of this phenomenon is a variety of Orphism that leans heavily upon the assumptions...

... with God and man. With regard to the fusion of belief and image, it seems significant that Milton should reject as much as he can of Dante’s scheme, replacing a cosmology of neat concentric circles and a hell fearsomely close beneath the earth’s crust with a radically different tradition...

... things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits” (p. 45). But this process can only occur simultaneously with its opponent, concealment as the setting forth of “earth”-of “that which is by na- ture undisclosable, that which shrinks from every...

... 55:8 ff.: “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (p. 193). The Heraclitean idea of the balance of opposites flowered in the course of centuries into the doctrine ofconcordia discors, which can be found...

... act of Cain, Haidbe’s island, The Is- land). The prehistorical earth may have contained superior beings, or there may have been other worlds with such.beings before our own, with its inferior beings, was created. At any rate, past nature was the Ideal by which to measure the present. (2...

... of the entanglement of humanity with the earth—had a major impact on German literature in the nineteenth century, from Romanticism to modernism. Groves’s preference for the environmentalist Bill McKibbon’s term Eaarth —one of many ecocritical riffs on différance —over the arguably anthropocentric Anthropocene...

.... For Menely, this is a “geohistorical” transition, meaning (as I take it) that the extraction of fossil fuels mattered, or came to matter, not only for human history but also for the history of Earth as a geologist might understand it. While this approach depends on the arguments of twenty-first-century...

.... It will be remembered that Jupiter, upon discovering that the human race has given itself up to infamous crimes, decides to destroy it. With the help of Neptune he sends a great deluge that makes sea and earth indistinguishable, and thereby destroys mankind. A single moun- tain, however, rises high enough...

... of the race of mankind; and man’s whole history itself on earth to date may typify only one day in his great pilgrimage from the Day of Creation to the Day of Judgment. Vaughan’s special interpretation of the pilgrimage seems to depend upon the verse from Hebrews that he affixed to his poem...

... one part of the Earth, and man another. The treasures of time lie high, in Urnes, Coynes, and Monuments, scarce below the roots of some vegetables. Time hath endlesse rarities, and shows of all varieties; which re- veals old things in heaven, makes new discoveries...

... into the future (PL, 11.370 ff it is as high as the hill from which Christ, “Our second Adam in the Wilderness,” could view “all Earths Kingdoms and thir Glory” ( 1 1.383-84 This ascension occasions from Milton a long list of geographical names, sweeping through Asia, Af- rica, Europe, and America...