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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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 that my...

...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...

... of this 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...

... 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 it is not a Tchoice...

...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...

...Eleni Coundouriotis The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience . By Goodlad Lauren M. E. . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 353 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Resisting recent inclinations toward...

...Thomas Clark Pollock Francis Shoemaker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xviii + 339. $3.50. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Aesthetic Experience and the Humanities. Ey FRANCISSHOEMAKER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xviii + 339...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... that Ellison and Styron were divided by a theory of aesthetics rather than by personal conflict. The Confessions of Nat Turner represents a pivotal moment in the history of biofiction, literature that names its protagonist after a historical figure, and it was this shift toward biofiction and away from...

...Leslie Ritchie [email protected] Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–1850 . By Miranda Eva Stanyon . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . x + 274 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington...

..., universalizing, aestheticizing, and so on” (4). The relationship between formalism and history is far more durable and complex than the bifurcated view allows, assimilating as part of its legacy the very concept of the aesthetic that, in certain cases, would testify to the mutual exclusion of both terms...