...Clark Emery Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 OPTICS AND BEAUTY By CLARKEMERY Keats had sufficient reason when he wrote in Lamia: There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she...

... . Just Beauty: Ovid and the Argument of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Arnd Bohm hat happens to people when their gods die, when their belief and Wfaith are dismissed as mere superstitions? A poignant account from recent times is found in Michelle Z. Rosaldo’s report about her...

...Michael B. Prince Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Michael B. Prince is an assistant professor of English at Boston University. His essays have appeared in Eighteenth-Catury Studies and College English . The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest Michael B. Prince...

...Sheldon H. Lu This essay is a study of a group of women writers who emerged on the Chinese literary scene in the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century. They have been called beauty writers ( meinü zuojia ), referring to the authors themselves being beautiful women. Their writings...

...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...

...Alfred Owen Aldridge Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 AKFNSIDE AND THE HIERARCHY OF BEAUTY By ALFREDOWEN ALDRIDGE Irl a passage of thirty-three lines in The Pleasures of Imagimtion Akenside traces the degrees of beauty through “various being’s...

... often keeps it from its purpose of illuminating Pope’s life and work. DOUGLASXNIGHT Yale University 77ze Prefigurative Imagination of John Keats: A Study of the Beauty-Truth Identification and Its Implications. By NEWELLF...

...Martha Banta Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era . By Russ Castronovo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiii + 287 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Martha Banta is former editor of PMLA and past president of the American Studies...

... Manuel Olgiiin 299 been suggested to them by the eighteenth-century Spanish aesthe- tician Esteban de Arteaga, the author of a theory of Ideal Beauty; and (3) how such a solution entails a coherent and systematic state- ment of the theory of realism, or naturalism, which...

...- bling psychoanalysis-are, according to this account, opposed and medi- ated throughout Wordsworth’s writings by the agency of the beautiful, which marks the poet’s deference to a nature not of his own imagining and to a community and culture composed of other, equally significant human beings...

... illustrated by Burke’s short essay “On Taste” (1759) and his longer and more famous Philo- sophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). In both essays, Burke opposes the associationist current and argues against the theory of association as the basis...

...- ties of Ford’s narrow yet intense genius appear: the plot revolves about a chaste, beautiful woman exposed to moral danger which momentarily blackens her honor but from which she emerges wholly pure ; heroes and heroines kneel, weep, display alternating moods, and exhibit psychological...

..., is that Belphoebe never acts like a Heavenly Venus: such a Venus, if at all orthodox, should lead men away from matter toward union with Spiritual Beauty. I See, for example, Kathleen Williams, “Venus and Diana: Some Uses of Myth in The Faerie Quenie,” ELH, 28 (I 96 I), 10 1-20. See also...

..., that is, the affectionate tie between the travel- ing mother and daughter forms the conceptual center of Woll- stonecraft’s revision of the gendered aesthetic conventions of the pic- turesque and its concomitant terms, the beautiful and the sublime. It may be useful briefly to remind the reader of some...

...Jill Anne Kowalik FEMININE IDENTITY FORMATION IN WILHELM MEISTERS LEHRJAHRE By JILL ANNE KOWALIK Natalie, the “beautiful soul,” and Therese have been treated almost without exception...

... as the negative opposite of the Kantian aesthetic, and that the popular ethos implicitly answers each proposition of the ‘Ana- lytic of the Beautiful’ with a thesis contradicting it” (41 ). He then con- trasts Kant’s distinction between aesthetic pleasure and pleasure that is merely physically gratifying...

... have, therefore, a sound basis for viewing as significant certain thematic and metaphoric parallels that link the figure of Zoilc~ Thersites with the problem of beauty, the realm of the aesthetic which figures so centrally in Faust’s quest. Before proceeding to an analysis of the imagry...

... Ctre de chair en qui il reconnait, matitrialisk, le fantbme de ses pensees (La loison d’or, hlademoiselle de Maupin).2 The ideal in question is that of beauty: “ce sera chez lui la meme re- ’ Sec I’airl Iiourget, Page“ rlr critiqitr ef...