...Irad Malkin © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Irad Malkin is Maxwell Cummings Chair for Mediterranean History and Culture and professor of ancient history at Tel Aviv University, where he coedits the Mediterranean Historical Review and directs the Center for Mediterranean...

... of the Ancient Mariner,” as well as other literary texts, to transform the failure of his quest for a transantarctic crossing into a glorious triumph. Shackleton's allusions and structural borrowings substitute the truth of literature for the reality of the polar experience. While this substitution is typical...

...Huntington Brown THE GLOSS TO THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER By HUNTINGTONBROWN When we read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, we are invited to imagine that the poet was a minstrel of long ago. The poem has enough of the features of a popular ballad to convey...

... was read in the early nineteenth century. The “Ancient Mariner” and Its Interpreters: Some Versions of Coleridge David Perkins oleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” has by now achieved the classic sta- C tus of omnisignificance, like Hamlet. Depending on the inter- preter...

...Raimonda Modiano Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 WORDS AND “LANGUAGELESS” MEANINGS LIMITS OF EXPRESSION IN THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER By RAIMONDA MODIANO With its first...

...Elaine Tuttle Hansen Warren Ginsberg. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 202 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 REVIEWS The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval...

...Alice Chandler Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 STRUCTURE AND SYMBOL IN “THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER’’ By ALICECHANDLER The Mariner’s tale compelled telling; the Mariner’s poem seems...

...Stewart C. Wilcox Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ∗ A grant, for which I am grateful, from the University of Oklahoma Research Committee made it possible for me to gather material for this article. THE ARGUMENTS AND MOTTO OF THE ANCIENT...

...Tristram P. Coffin Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 COLERIDGE’S USE OF THE BALLAD STANZA IN “THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER” By TRISTRAMP. COFFIN In the telling of a supernatural story such as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner...

...William Haller Lemen Clark Donald. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Pp. x + 269. $3.50. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 John Milton at St. Paul’s School: A Study of Ancient Rhetoric in English Renaissance Education. By DONALDLEMEN CLARK. New York...

... in general. In a series of essays written in the 1930s, Kerényi theorized the media of ancient texts as central to cultural hermeneutics. His understanding of textual media as expressive of the essential characteristics of a culture was underpinned by a conservative-humanist critique of modernity. It shows...

...Steven Monte © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-02Monte.cs 11/13/00 2:07 PM Page 587 Ancients and Moderns in Mrs. Dalloway Steven Monte hen Virginia Woolf titled the second essay in her 1925 Common W Reader...

... English examples, for the long-term significance of the cultural debate between Ancients and Moderns across Europe. The Moderns argued for the possibility of historical change in literary standards; the Ancients, for the putatively unchanging models of the Greek and Roman classics. Probably the most...

...Abraham C. Keller Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY By ABRAHAMC. KELLER The formulation of the idea of progress, as applied broadly to man and society, belongs...

... with the ancient public sphere proceeds from their common origin in the historically continuous intellectual tradition of European rhetoric. Ancient rhetoric, which also constituted the ancient public sphere, entered into ancient, medieval, and Renaissance rhetorical poetics; this last, transformed...

... ancient Roman literary heritage, yet he understood that his divided, chaotic, stagnant country needed renewal and change, a recurring subject in his early patriotic odes. His ideas on Italy in the Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degl’italiani ( Discourse on the Present State of the Customs...

..., the ancient philosophy of apathy creates the conditions of possibility for modern romance. University of Washington 2009 Samuel Baker , associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture...

... heterogeneity were intrinsically related to its political critique. His objections to “Lycidas” also reflected his view that pastoral depicted an idealized life of rural leisure to distract and entertain city men. This ancient association between pastoral and leisure may have informed eighteenth-century readers...

... in the previous generation. Their two most ambitious experiments of this type are The Ruined Cottage and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , written at the same time while the poets were in constant conversation. These poems have different fates: Wordsworth worries ever after about the abruptness of the original...

... of the body. In resonance with the period’s debates in the visual arts, and within the overlapping contexts of the developing culture of galanterie and the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, Racinian drama calls attention in a striking and unprecedented reflexive manner to the opacity of the theatrical...