...Robert E. Osborne Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE AESTHETIC IDEAS OF EMILIA PARD0 BAZAN By ROBERTE. OSBORNE Emilia Pardo BazAn once wrote, “Todo el que lea mis ensayos criticos comprenderii que no soy idealista, ni realista, ni naturalista...

...Paul Gilmore © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Paul Gilmore is assistant professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He is author of The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood (2001). Mechanical Means: Emersonian Aesthetic...

...Wilson T. Bell; Thomas Lahusen The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture . By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Wilson T...

... renewed interest was associated with deconstruction (see Rei Terada’s review article “The New Aestheticism,” Diacritics 23, no. 4 [1993]: 42–61), but the aesthetic’s brac- ing encounter with historical and political approaches quickly moved center stage. Texts that address this encounter include...

... Studies . He is author of two forthcoming books, Spenser's International Style and Virgil in the Renaissance . The French Aesthetic of Spenser’s Feminine Rhyme David Scott Wilson-Okamura ne of Edmund Spenser’s greatest experiments, which does not Oseem like an experiment anymore...

...Günter Leypoldt University of Washington 2007 Günter Leypoldt is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Mainz. He has published on literary transcendentalism, eighteenth-century aesthetics, pragmatist literary theory, and 1980s neorealist fiction...

.... His essay “Being `out of Place': Edward W. Said and the Contradictions of Cultural Differences” appeared in the March 2003 issue of MLQ . Form and History: Reading as an Aesthetic Experience and Historical Act Paul B. Armstrong he choice between form and history is a bad one, and...

...Petra Dierkes-Thrun The familiar scholarly view of Richard Strauss's modernist opera Salome is that it overturns the original aesthetics of its libretto source, Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist-decadent drama. A close reconsideration of the presumed opposition between the two works, however, shows that...

...Elisa Tamarkin One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic . By Martha Banta. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xxx + 306 pp. University of Washington 2009 Elisa Tamarkin is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is...

...Linda Hutcheon Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post)modern “Third Aesthetic.” By Herbert Grabes. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. xiii + 172 pp. University of Washington 2010 Linda Hutcheon is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of...

...Robert L. Caserio Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860 – 1960 .By Douglas Mao. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. x + 319 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi...

... career reveal the limits of traditional modernist aesthetic criteria. I owe an unpayable scholarly debt to Myra Jehlen, whose conversation has helped me clarify the argument of this essay. I am deeply grateful as well to Marshall Brown for his patience and encouragement. Finally, I must point out...

...Virgil Nemoianu © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-03Nemoianu.ak 6/1/00 2:26 PM Page 41 Hating and Loving Aesthetic Formalism: Some Reasons Virgil Nemoianu he present essay starts from deeply felt concerns and deals with...

...Thomas Pfau Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition after Kant Thomas Pfau he following, somewhat speculative remarks constitute part of a Tlarger project concerned with the historical transformation of...

...Henry Schwarz © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-01Schwarz.cs 11/13/00 2:06 PM Page 563 Aesthetic Imperialism: Literature and the Conquest of India Henry Schwarz It has been estimated that around 60,000 books dealing...

...CHARLES PALLISER © 1979 University of Washington 1979 “A CONSCIOUS PRIZE” MORAL AND AESTHETIC VALUE IN THE SPOILS OF POYNTON By CHARLESPALLISER The somewhat notorious critical controversy over “The...

... the boundaries of the present study, the case Tennyson lays down is convincing. WENDELLV. HARKIS Pennsylvania State University The Victorian Imagination: Essays an Aesthetic Exploration. By WILLIAME. BUCK- LER. New York and London: New...

...Lance Bertelsen Paulson Ronald. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1989. xiv + 363 pp, ukkys, $35.00 Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 REVIEWS Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820...

...Zhang Longxi Haun Saussy. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. 296 pp. $37.50. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 458 MLQ I December 1994 Passages in Spenser’s poem (not to mention the...

... the American Society for Aesthetics, University of South Florida, Tampa, October 28-31, 1981. I would like to acknowledge the generous support of the National Humanities Center. THE INTERESTS IN DISINTERESTEDNESS KARL PHILIPP MORITZ AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE...