...Ben Parker Abstract The production of abstract value—not limited to the transformation of labor under the exigencies of capitalism but extending to modes of signification undermined by abstract equivalence—plays an unprecedented yet overlooked role in the major novels of Thomas Hardy: unprecedented...

.... Robert H. Bell Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Mod- ernism. By Charles Altieri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii + 529 PP. $49.50- Charles Altieri’s book still waits to be recognized as the best recent inter- vention in literary...

...Robert T. Tally, Jr. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History . By Franco Moretti. London: Verso, 2005. 119 pp. University of Washington 2007 Robert T. Tally Jr. is lecturer in English at Texas State University. He is working on a book tentatively titled...

... of the sub- ject as essentially permeable. For in the “Conclusion,” the subject’s openness to all sensations becomes a susceptibility to sensations imag- ined as abstract qualities. Susceptibility, that is, because it is here absolute, does not enable 11s to distinguish between specific iinpres...

... Greenough, the sculptor. As philosophical criticism it is thoughtful, original, and sometimes brilliant. But it is also abstract, difficult, and sometimes obscure. The reader interested in the history and logical interrelations of ideas will find here a rich mine of interpretation...

.... A. Abbey.” Abstract in BBSIA, 111 (1951), 102. 3313a. Carney, James. “Suibne Geilt.” Eisge, VI (1950), 83-110. Rev. by A. 0. H. Jarman in Llin Cymru, I(1951), 201. 3071. Casson, L. F. The Romance of Sir Degrevant. 1949. Rev. by G. L. Brook in Med. E.,XIX (1950) ; by Angus McIntosh...

...: An Exercise in Abstraction,” PMLA, 74 (l959), 585-98. 22 7 228 TIMEKS, STKESSEKS, LINGUISTS In time the illusion of rapid progress ceased, and the study of prosody slipped again into its peaceful gait-with very little happening...

... Sprache und Literatur ( Tubingen) ( Tubingen) BHR BibliothGque d’Humanisme et Renaissance CE College English CL Comparative Literature CN Cultura Neolatina DA Dissertation Abstracts DAEM Deutsches Archiv fur...

... moment to the idea of death. The Duke’s speech is intensely abstract. Although charged with the mimed passion of the preacher-a rhetorical passion originating in the beat and twist of a period rather than in any involuntary movement of the heart-the tone is fundamen tally calm, advisory...

... in vain (3-6). The use of personified abstractions to achieve effects that are vast yet vivid and the slowing down of the tempo to the organ-like music of the last line are characteristic of Johnson’s style at its best. Also characteristic is his manner of registering disapproval...

...Liam Lanigan Abstract This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity...

... the correct application of abstract principle” (Talking the Good Life from Free Speech to Democratic Dialogue,” YaleJournal of Law and Liberation 1 [ 19891 : 2 1) . Lewis, Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (New York: Ran- dom House, i gg i ). Annabel Patterson is professor...

..., original, and sometimes brilliant. But it is also abstract, difficult, and sometimes obscure. The reader interested in the history and logical interrelations of ideas will find here a rich mine of interpretation and suggestion. But the title is somewhat misleading- “Emerson and Greenough...

... functions froni the abstract to the most tender expression of feeling : (1) it is meaning, an abstract compre- hension ; (2) it carries associations with it ; (3) it sounds ; (4) it underlies the poet’s arrangement and choice ; (5) it creates an image, a symbol. All these functions...

...,” is it not possible that Pope-like most poets-did not fully understand his own poetic intuitions and the processes by which these intuitions found expression? While Pope seems to have believed that he was able to translate freely and completely from the language of judgment (abstraction...

....” BBSIA, 6 (1954)’ 20-30. 3435. Adler, Alfred. “A Structural Comparison of the two ‘Folies Tristan.’ ’’ Symposium, VI ( 1952), 349-358. Brief notice by A. E[wart] in Fr. St., VIII (1954), 93. 3744. Adolf, Helen. “Tristan aux enfers.” Abstract in BBSIA, 6 (1954), 100-101. 3745. Ageno...

... disciplines upon literary history and criticism. I wish rather to examine some of the consequences of Burckhardt’s particular assumptions in the particular area of Renaissance studies. First of these is his passage from historical description to abstract definition; and in this his disciples have...

... in the novel. He calls the flesh/spirit conflict “fundamental to Hardy’s vision of life” (p. 70) and quotes from both The Return ofthe Native and the 1895 preface to Jude the Obscure to sustain his point. But he ignores Hardy’s fondness for confident abstractions that do not really explain the novels...

...Zhang Jiang Abstract No doubt twentieth-century Western literary theory has achieved remarkable results and historical advances. But the so-called imposed interpretation is one of its fundamental shortcomings. Imposed interpretation here refers to the practices that deviate from the text and dispel...

... com- promise by which the temporal and the timeless, the particular and the abstract, may consort with one another is effected by those tropes that picture our life as a battle, a journey, a play, in images which are at once dramatic and abstract, emblematic and narrative. Mar- vell’s...