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..., 1980/87 I wondered about the meaning of Deleuze and Guattari s words while on my way to the Rus­ sian Far East in 1994, traveling by train from Harbin, capital ofthe northeastern Chinese prov­ ince of Heilongjiang, to Suifenhe, a border town booming in the one country, two systems con­ ditions. From...

... agriculture et mesnage des champs (1603) were assimilated and frequently consulted. Yet the gardens we know from our strolls about Vaux and Versailles seem a far cry from the theories and practices in force at the end ofthe Valois regime and the begin­ ning of the age of Henry IV. The broader intention of my...

... attraction visited by thousands ofpeople every year since the opening ofthe Erie Canal in 1825, but already a site ofworld interest. After visiting J. M. W. Turner in London in 1847, the American photographer J. J. E. Mayall recorded: He told me he should like to see Niagara, as it was the greatest wonder...

... is determined by the interplay among mutually perpendicular axes and not by any one particular point or place. In the process, the sense of the antipodean becomes more than simply the underneath, the topsy-turvy, or the perverse. Here, I want to explore and embellish these hints ofthe antipodean, en­ listing...

.... They comment on the lines of trees now linking many oftheirfarms to the national park at the top of the water catchment. Each of them, seeing and describing a different aspect ofthe The South Atlantic Quarterly 98:4, Fall 1999. Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press. 762 Ruth Beilin view, evokes a picture...

.... In the century before Locke, the Golden Age was treated not simply as a poetic fable but as a cru­ cial part ofthe historical record through which a fallen humankind must try to make sense of the political, economic, and ecological crises of its time. In his efforts to justify a contractual basis for government...

... and in terms ofthe meaning ofhomecoming. Returning home is a threat voiced by Achilles, Agamemnon, and Thersites in the Iliad (1.16971, 2.114-15, and 2.236, respectively). However various the reasons for the threat, in each case it signals the possibility of a Greek withdrawal and de­ feat; nostos in the Iliad...

.... Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press. 356 Samuel Weber between the institution ofthe family and that ofthe theater. And if drama is defined primarily as the representation of conflict through action, then the question that remains is whether domestic drama in this sense has any structural...

.... Angelike Vertodoulou-Kapsale (Athens and Ioannina: Dodone, 1995), figure 571. Reproduced by permission ofthe publisher. ancient origins and medieval fame from which the bridge takes its name.1 The Arachthos River runs below, having completed its protective loop around the town s northwest circumference...

... down the burrow, failed to deter the animal, Pollan resorted to a gasoline fire. This also failed. Gardening newsletters and journals are full of accounts of how to kill or keep animals out ofthe garden. Besides woodchucks, the gardener s hit list includes voles, moles, and gophers. Equally high...

... is not the recall of particular details, Tragic Medieval Household 369 the objects of thought, but the persistent and urgent fascination with the very idea of place, location, as the lost possibility of pure spatial organiza­ tion. A recurrent image ofthe structure ofmemory in classical and medieval mnemonic...

... as a principle of group organiza­ tion.5 This emphasis on levelling as well as distinction is one reason for the linking ofcourtlyjouissance and its vicissitudes to the figures ofthe desirable neighbor (bon vezi) and the jealous, spiteful one (lauzengier).6 But because this fantasy made the rise and fall...

... their country as the delta region of the McArthur River and the saltwater limits of the McArthur and Wearyan Rivers, along with the Sir Edward Pellew Islands. My exploration here ofthe Yanyuwa people s perceptions oftheir homeland is based on journeying with them through their place-scapes for many years...

... testimony to the constancy ofmy affections for this place over some seven years now. Hardly a miracle worker myself, I have stood watch nonetheless over some really miraculous transformations. I have been a witness to, perhaps also an agent of, the transmutation ofthe impos­ sible red Georgia clay which...

... and threatening to art and culture, as he saw and practiced them. It is, however, the space ofthe troubling and threat­ ening art of Doktor Faustus s protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkiihn, as Blanchot argues in Ars Nova, his extraordinary commentary on serial music (the primary model for Leverkuhn s music...

...Anthony Wall Anthony Wall A Broken Thinker Or again, what harm would it have done us to have remained uncreated? Lucretius, On the Nature ofthe Universe Bakhtin is a broken thinker and the pieces of his thought are strewn in virtually every direc­ tion. It is ironic that as the early writings...

... of heroines in Shakespeare, are enlisted for new projects public, masculine, and transnational. The first reference to tears in the European canon helps to orient the issue of liquid politics. Early in the Iliad (1.42), Khryses, a Trojan high priest, tries to ransom his daughter (a captive ofthe Danaians...

... may have an Irish provenance, deriving from an old Gaelic word for libertine. 1 When James Joyce placed the prosti­ tute at the center ofhis complex refiguring ofthe metropolis in an Irish context, he may not just have been bringing advanced European moder­ nity to bear on Irish culture, but also...

... of national strength and imminent apocalypse. Subsequently, and precisely because it could now Beyond the Suburbs ofthe Mind" 631 be thought and symbolized as a rational-humanist concern for the middleclass community as Nation, such anxiety was once again refocused as a determinate threat posed...

...Joe Cleary joe Cleary Domestic Troubles: Tragedy and the Northern Ireland Conflict ^Xtmestic tragedy, conventionally associated with the sensibility ofthe emergent metropolitan middle classes, has never been held in very high esteem by Marxian critics. In recent times, many critics on the Left...