e know no time when we were not as now,” Satan raises his proud boast to Abdiel in book 5
of John Milton's Paradise Lost,“Know none before us, self-begot, self rais'd/By our own …

For more than a decade, a mural on an exposed wall of the Kunsthaus Tacheles broadcast a
question—or perhaps an existential sigh—over the streets of Berlin.'How Long is Now'read …

The article explores the novel form's engagement in narrating the crucial shift from the Old
Left to the New Left in the United States by analyzing Norman Mailer's claims to have written …

Today, MOST critics WOULD AGREE that Katherine Mansfield played an important part in
the development of the modern short story. Hailed by figures as diverse as Katherine Anne …

John Milton's epic traces the shift from what Walter Benjamin has described as Messianic or
sacred time to an accepted sense of time as homogeneous, empty. But sacred time is not …

And Per Se And: Time and Tempo in ‘The Masque of the Red Death,’ Page 166 chapter 8 And
Per Se And: Time and Tempo in “The Masque of the Red Death” Geoffrey Sanborn Time is not …

Periodized “modernity” unnecessarily polarizes Milton's reception. His experience of
modernity in the seventeenth century confounds the Enlightenment distinctions usually …

Writing and reading are not all that distinct for a writer. Both exercises require being alert
and ready for un accountable beauty, for the intricate ness or simple elegance of the writer's …

In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a
major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts …

Of all the markers that anchor the narrative of Paradise Lost in time, the “now,” or putative
present moment, is perhaps the most ambiguous. In Milton's epic the now ranges in function …