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...Paul Sharrad 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Paul Sharrad Out of Africa: Literary Globalization in the Winds of Change At some point in my s high school years...

...Esmat Elhalaby; Maya Wind Israel's genocidal war on Gaza escalated in the fall of 2023 and sparked a mass student uprising across the world. This student intifada recentered universities as crucial battlegrounds and sites of mobilization for Palestinian liberation. Building on the liberated zones...

.... Both of these strains of feminist documentary—those that show and those that tell—wind their way back to the early 1970s and continue to resonate in contemporary digital media productions. Although the now-dominant tradition of telling has been vital to the production of feminist subjectivity, I...

...Joel Auerbach The necessity of immediate transition from fossil fuels has made painfully conspicuous the fact that energy sources such as solar and wind do not have the same material properties as coal and oil, and has attracted critical attention to the ways in which the social values...

... with natural events, such as the association of snakes with wind, whales with waterspouts, or the naturally revivified landscape with the Pleiades constellation. As these associations show, human agency plays an integral part in ecological pro­ 804 John J. Bradley cesses. The Yanyuwa believe that the land...

... on the far bank, or the distant mountains. The river and wind roar, amplified through the headphones, louder than my normal hearing. The sound is also spatially altered by the microphone...

..., To my kindled emotions was wind over flame. Had he spent his early years in- a thronging city, his poetry, if he had written any, would doubtless have been very unlike Thanatopsis and A Forest Hymn. The background of all his verse, in a sense its origin, is the great Pontusac forest. But if nature...

... of himself as belonging to the cognoscenti, the intelligentsia, the sophis­ ticates, or even the intelligent minority, admired South Wind. For the American tourist-third bound for Europe this book must have been almost the familiar traveling companion that Joyce s Ulysses was on the return voyage. Less...

...David Underhill Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Hurricane Frederic vs. Mobile David Underhill Some wind gauges blew away when hurricane Frederic hewed the Mo­ bile area on the night of September 12-13, 1979, and left behind the greatest sweep of damage by a misdeed of nature...

... matter. This is evident in Mr. Fairchild s almost grotesque critique of Shelley s West Wind. On the line, Book Reviews 603 Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is. he comments: Here is the desire for self-expansion through self-annihilation. But in the next tercet the situation is reversed...

... of the truly great from beginning to end exalted among the stars: Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields See how these names are feted by the waving grass And by the streamers of white cloud And whispers of wind in the listening sky. . . . Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards...

.... The day was clear, but a perfect tempest of wind was raging. The brigade of Colonel Stone was already in the city, and was properly posted. Citizens and soldiers were on the streets, and general good order prevailed. General Wade Hampton . . . had, in anticipation of our capture of Columbia, ordered...

... lines paint a vivid picture in Contact : Contact! the propellers spin And the great engines roar! With joyous swoop The winged ships Take to sea once more! Their sea holds drifting isles of clouds, The surging winds their tide; North and South and East and West The winged ships can ride On waves...

... Beauty: The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, though unseen, among us; The Imagery of Shelley 63 As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music...

... of the foregoing poem. The thought is more extensively developed, but the theme is likewise meditative and symbolic. There is more color present, however, and at times a more spirited treatment, as these pas­ sages indicate: When the bare October wind Goes tramping the scarlet hills, And the leaves like gusts...

... successful for its incisive simplicity, with its wind and flower and pale moonbeam where A wind, as wandering winds will do, Brought to the baby there Sweet smells from some quaint flower that grew Out on some hill somewhere. He does not pursue simplicity with the zeal of an apostle, how­ ever...

... a library of out-doors whose chief charm is its poetic quality, is etherealized, as it were, in Mr. Cawein s metre and melody. As theirs, his persuasions are: There is no rhyme that is half so sweet As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain...

... for a month. He becomes aware of the certainty of his achievement and the inevitability of The Defining Function of Vocabulary in Conrad s The Rover 267 his death. His final success in removing Scevola from Escampobar and in outwitting the English captain comes as wind and water rise in his behalf. Although...

... of forest-leaves. 216 The South Atlantic Quarterly Then for originality and remoteness from the commonplace of life, this figure is unique even among Rossetti s. Even as, heavy-curled, Stooping against the wind, a charioteer Is snatched from out his chariot by the hair, So shall Time be; and as the void...

... lyrics less than three hundred in all to show for four hundred years, some of very indifferent quality, but some exquisite both in feeling and style. Some are of considerable length, some are mere fragments (like Western wind, when will thou blow, . . and some are mere tantalizing first lines (as All...