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...Michael Levenson Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 FORM’S BODY WYNDHAM LEWIS’S TARR By MICHAELLEVENSON A man, an artist, let us call him T, realizes that his flirtation with B has gone too...

...Francis Lee Utley By Eleanor Kellogg Heningham. Published by the author: New York, 1939. Pp. 83. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS An Early Latin Debate of the Body and Soul: Preserved in MS Royal 7 A 111 in the British Museum...

...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...

... on other aspiring female writers eager to explore and expose their sensuality and sexuality. The parading and pandering of female subjectivity via a body politics have become a major literary fad in contemporary mainland China. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Sheldon H. Lu is professor...

... narratology, which opens an inviting, fresh path for medieval literary and cultural studies. Michel-Andri Bossy, Brown University Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literatuw, I 660-1730. By Richard Braverman. Cambridge...

..., most recently, of Bodies and Disciplines: The Intersection of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England (1996). Susan Noakes is professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation (1988). Her...

...), a collection of essays on early German film. Emil Jannings, Falstaff, and the Spectacle of the Body Natural Kenneth S. Calhoon To say that Emil Jannings dominated the German screen during and after the Weimar period is to allude to his imposing physical size but also to acknowledge...

... in the Winter 2005 issue of Screen . Body, Earth, and Migration: The Poetics of Suffering in Zhang Wei’s September Fable Jian Xu he plea for “pure literature” (chun wenxue) on China’s literary scene Tin the 1990s must have sounded strange in an era of cultural stud- ies...

... in early modern England. University of Washington 2007 Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage . By Gail Kern Paster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 274 pp. Reviews Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage. By Gail Kern Paster...

... On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Helpless” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900 . By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. The Body...

...” is not “the enter- taining formulation of a German scholar” (p. 237, n. 9) but of Ficino himself at the close of the proem to his translation of the Enneads. M. J. B. ALLEN University of California, Los Angeles The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics...

...Jack Murray Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 COLONLAL BODIES GIDE’S L’I1MIMORALISTEAS AN INTERTEXT OF CAMUS’S “LA FEMME ADULTERE” By JACK MURRAY Most of Albert Camus’s fiction uses Algeria as its...

...Angela Brintlinger [email protected] Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century . By Elena Fratto . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xii + 259 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University...

...Sarah Ellenzweig The question of how and why a body falls in Paradise Lost persistently returns to the declining bodies that occupy Lucretius’s De rerum natura . Milton’s Christian support of the Arminian doctrine of free will, his argument that man is “Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall...

... the Mediterranean in a campaign we would call today genocide. Rough estimates of the death toll place the number at 2–3 million. Under conditions that stagger the imagination, the survivors were taken to Rome as slaves, and some carried scarred bodies and scarred memories into the ludic sphere of the Roman theater...

... 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...

...Katherine Ibbett This essay examines the figure of the reste —the things or people left behind—in the tragedies of Pierre Corneille, in particular though not only in the late plays, which are themselves a body of work left behind by the canon. These remainders provide a new perspective...

..., Cowper as the preeminent poet of sensibility. The conversational idiom they share, however, holds together even contrasting ideas in unreconciled suspension, and the two poets’ use of that idiom thus accommodates the radical differences in their attitudes. The resulting continuity between their bodies...

..., not theme and representation, at the center of the historically material practices of poetry. For superversive poetics, poems are not only representations but also quite singular machines, devices for body modification. Here the verse repertoire of Robert Browning’s Fifine at the Fair , in particular its...

... and the Cartesian model of human beings as both body and spirit, since language consisted of material sounds as vehicles for abstract ideas. By the eighteenth century the talking bird in literature had become a metaphor for a natural language that could express the truth in any and all circumstances. In later works...