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Review Of "Black Print Unbound: "The Christian Recorder," African American Literature, And Periodical Culture" By E. Gardner, Lara Langer Cohen
Review Of "Black Print Unbound: "The Christian Recorder," African American Literature, And Periodical Culture" By E. Gardner, Lara Langer Cohen
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And, Oh, My Heart Goes Out, Nathalie Anderson
And, Oh, My Heart Goes Out, Nathalie Anderson
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Mature Content, Lara Langer Cohen
Mature Content, Lara Langer Cohen
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Lamentations, Betsy Bolton
Lamentations, Betsy Bolton
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The following poem attempts to think about loss from the perspective of different religions (the Jewish prophet Jeremiah, a Christian sermon, a Buddhist tale, Muslim prayer and traditions). The piece travels through time as well as space: it looks back at the Renaissance as a period in which Jeremiah’s lamentations were set to music and forced travel/slavery between Morocco and England first occurred.
Somebody’S Saints March In, Nathalie Anderson
Somebody’S Saints March In, Nathalie Anderson
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Minding The White Horse, Nathalie Anderson
Minding The White Horse, Nathalie Anderson
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Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher, C. Rutz, Jill M. Gladstein
Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher, C. Rutz, Jill M. Gladstein
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Agency From A Stone: Shelley’S Posthumanist Experiments In "Mont Blanc", Betsy Bolton
Agency From A Stone: Shelley’S Posthumanist Experiments In "Mont Blanc", Betsy Bolton
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This article reads Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ as an extended exploration into possible modes of relationship linking the human mind to the material world. The modes of relationship considered by Shelley anticipate many of the structures and strategies developed by posthumanist theory, including structural coupling, strategic anthropomorphism, imagistic translation, and human-nonhuman assemblages. After summarizing Kantian and post-Kantian readings of ‘Mont Blanc,’ the essay works through an extended close reading of the poem to elucidate its proto-posthumanist elements.
“Animal Spirits”, Peter Schmidt
“Animal Spirits”, Peter Schmidt
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In “Animal Spirits” looks in some depth at several of Williams’s poems about dogs or cats written over the course of his career, from “Sub Terra” (1917); “Poem (As the cat)” (from the 1930s); the dogs of Paterson; and “To a Dog Injured in the Street,” which exemplifies the elegiac poetics and representational paradoxes of Williams’s late triadic style. Cats for Williams exemplify energy in precise control, its perfection in form—and that was his lifelong quest. Dogs, on the other paw, embodied for Williams the boundary-breaking force of uncorraled creativity breaking form. Both spirits, figured as animals, were totems central …