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...David Daiches Robert Kiely. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. ix + 285 pp. $5.50. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 616 REVIEWS Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure. By ROBERTKIELY...

... interpretation of a novelist whose style is frequently poetic. RIMADRELL RECK Louisiana State University New Orleans Andre‘ Malraux: The Indochina Adventure. By WALTERG. LANGLOIS.New York, Washington, London: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. ix...

..., makes it a valuable contribution to the history of English philology. ARTHURG. KENNEDY Stanford University Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere. A Relation of the Several Adventures by Sea with the Dangers, Difficulties and Hardships I Met...

...?’ “FREE AND EASY”? SPONTANEITY AND THE QUEST FOR MATURITY IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN2 By R. J. FERTEL At the heart of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn con- tradictory assessments of spontaneity’s...

...LORE METZGER Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 COLERIDGE: THE LEGACY OF AN ADVENTUROUS CONSERVATIVE1 By LOREMETZGER When John Stuart Mill characterized the “two great seminal minds” of Bentham...

... of “voyage of discovery” literature and other subgenres of the adventure story that inform South , Shackleton is distinctly more skillful at manipulating the genre's tactical potential to construct a fantasy of subjectivity based on the internal quest romance, thereby altering the definition of heroics...

... in a pointless epic adventure. At the same time, Du Bellay taunts Ronsard for being a poet in favor with the French court and thus one whose own aventure was an official success. Du Bellay's agon with Ronsard carves out, in effect, areas of empire-undermining and empire-glorifying epic. University...

... of a modern definition of circulation, so this essay returns to one especially pertinent case from that period, Helenus Scott’s it-narrative The Adventures of a Rupee (1782), which describes the movements of a rupee coin in the world economy. Attending to the linguistic form and publication history of Scott’s...

... respond to the extinction panic and cosmic adventurism that grip our own imperiled twenty-first century. I really do not have any other motivation for personally accumulating assets except to be able to make the biggest contribution I can to making life multi-planetary. —Elon Musk The starry...

... simplicity in the matter of Sancho’s mystification about the village girls, mad doings (locuras) that go beyond the maddest that can be conceived; while the lion adventure is all through treated as his very maddest freak; one compared with which, as Sancho says, all the rest were “cakes...

..., Alicia Lde Lacey, Albigenses, Augustus and Adelina, Albert, Adventures of a Guinea, Abbess of Valiera, Ariel, Almacks, Adventures of Seven Shillings, Abbess, Arlington, Adelaide, Aretas, Abdallah the Moor, Anne Grey, Andrew the Savoyard, Agatha, Agnes de...

...- cessors, Malory portrays, through seemingly desultory adventures, a young man with profound doubts and fears about women and their ef- fects on the chivalric life. Malory’s concept of the chivalric code first becomes clear in the “Tale of Arthur” where the king instructs his knights...

... as a serious form, Wilhelm Meister.2 In what follows I propose to read “Old Times on the Mississippi,” Roughing It, and The Innocenb Abroad as parts of a larger story, which I shall refer to as “The Adventures of Mark Twain.” This reading suggests that throughout...

... reading Moll Flanders according to a “system of expectations” which would enable him to arrive at the “intrinsic genre,” and that if he is a bit more so- phisticated he would be able to identify it historically. He would recognize the work as fitting loosely into the fictional adventures...

... to my friend Professor Gordon N. Ray for permis- sion to make use of his discovery of the similarities of plot in “Miss Shum’s Husband” and “The Man with the Twisted Lip.” 2 Memories and Adventures, Crowborough ed. of Doyle’s Works (Garden City, New York, 1930), vol. 24, p. 116. 8 Ibid...

...Roy Harvey Pearce Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 “THE END. YOURS TRULY, HUCK FINN” POSTSCRIPT By ROYHARVEY PEARCE In the last chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck speaks twice of going...

... of Arabia Deserta as an adventure story. The hero-with whom unconsciously we identify ourselves -is undefeated. The vulnerable body of the man is not finally crushed by inimical, elemental powers, nor are his individual mind and will subdued by the common mind and will of a hostile people. He...

.... In addition to dealing with Catherine Morland’s adventures, the book parodies other novels and thus raises the question of the relationship of the parody to the total structure. The attempted solutions of this critical problem, many o€ them quite cogently argued, are almost exclusively attempts...

... Louisiana State University New Orleans Andre‘ Malraux: The Indochina Adventure. By WALTERG. LANGLOIS.New York, Washington, London: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. ix + 259 pp. $5.95. Andrk Malraux’s youthful adventure in Indochina is a chapter in his life which has remained obscure-more...

.... The Lamb ancl the Elephant: Ideal lmitation ancl the Context of Renaissance ,4lkgory. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1974. slvi + 254 pi;. $17.50. FESTSCHRIFTEN Beaumont, E. M.,J. M. Cocking, and J. Cruickshank (editors). Order and Adventure...