... Carlyle and the Saint-Sintonians : The Concept of Historical Period- icity. By HILL SHINE.Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xiii + 191. $2.25. Mr. Shine’s monograph is a worthy addition to the studies which have appeared on the foreign sources of Carlyle’s thought. Its...

... their work unusually well. It has not been an easy task. ADOLPHR. BENSON Yale IJni.z!ersity The Concept of Love in thc It’orks of Hermann Stehr. By KARL SIEGFRIEDWEIMAR. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania dissertation, 1945. Pp...

...Bruce Robbins The critique of theodicy might form part of the rationale for a renewed version of literary study. This hypothesis, suggested by James Wood's New York Times oped on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, leads to an interrogation of the status of literature: Is it a secular concept, as Richard...

...James Mulholland Abstract For decades scholars have relied on the concept of circulation to explain the operation of texts and to animate the significance of literary studies. Its overuse has elided differences in the virtual relationships created by reading and has blurred empirical details about...

... Criticimi: The History of the Conception “Sap” iiz the Ni d/elungcit Criticism f roni Lachninrziz to Heztslcr. By ELIZABETITEDROP EOTT NING. Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania : Times Publishing Co., 1944. Pp. 254. This dissertation was written under the direction of Profeswr ;\lax Diez...

.... In his place 1 think I might have taken my chances evad- ing them. Sekora observes that there is no thorough study of the concept of luxury, that the concept undergoes an important change of meaning around the middle of the eighteenth century, and that Smollett is “one of the last, most...

... track. ROBERTE. HELBLING Uniuersity of Utah The Concept of Ambiguity-the Example of James. By SHLmiI-rH KihihioN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 257 pp. $19.00. Shlomith Rimmon is hardly the first...

...Thomas H. Jackson Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 HERDER, POUND, AND THE CONCEPT OF EXPRESSION By THOMASH. JACKSON The poetic theory of Ezra Pound is a wonderful contrivance that rationalizes...

... as Chaucerian seems to resemble modern critical ideas. Inconclusiveness, indeterminacy, and pluralism are concepts of special value for moderns, but were they for Chaucer? Is poetic inconclusiveness the same thing as “human experience” as Chaucer might have recognized it? I am persuaded...

... why he has had to work his way through the histories of so many remote critical disputes. RICHARDI. COOK University of Washington Coleridge’s Philosophy of Literature: The Development of a Concept of Poet y, 1791-1819. By J...

.... ROBERTDONALD SPECTOR Long Island University Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor. By CURTIS BROWN WATSON.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. Pp. xv + 471. $7.50. The thesis of this book is “that Renaissance civilization can best be under- stood...

...Jean-Pierre Barricelli Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 BALZAC AND BEETHOVEN THE GROWTH OF A CONCEPT By JEAN-PIERREBARRICELLI Ludwig van Beethoven’s acceptance by the French public was slow...

..., that it is neither possible nor desirable to keep a nation in the precari- ous state of cultural ignorance. Accounts of primitive peoples abound in Wieland’s writings. These accounts are frequently so idyllic that one is tempted to conclude that Wieland shares with Rousseau the rationalist concept...

...Richard Switzer; Roger Williams Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 STENDHAL THE MUSIC CRITIC ANALYSIS OF CONCEPT AND VALIDITY OF JUDGMENT By RICHARDSWITZER arid ROGERWILLIAMS Stendhal’s views on music provide a subject which has frequently...

...). Postcolonial Concepts and Ancient Greek Colonization Irad Malkin iscussions of orientalism and colonialism sometimes reach back to DClassical Greece, reputed to be the originator of Western binary attitudes to the other, the subaltern, or the colonized.1 Historians are usually wary...

... a bewildering jumble of likes and dislikes. Simple amusement can be delightful, if perhaps largely or wholly pointless (see P. G. Wodehouse or James Thurber). Fantasy can be escapist if entertaining (Jules Verne) 6 or systematically didactic (C. S. Lewis). Realism—always a relative concept—can be hailed...

...Jjohn C. Blankenagel Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 JAKOB WASSERMANN’S CONCEPTION AND TREATMENT OF CHARACTER By JOHN C. BLANKENAGEL Jakob Wassermann has frequently been sharply criticized because...

...Jeffrey R. Prince Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 D. G. ROSSETTI AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITE CONCEPTION OF THE SPECIAL MOMENT By JEFFREYR. PRINCE Walter Pater’s “Conclusion” to The Renaissance is an important...

...Henry H. Weinberg Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 ZOLA: SOME EARLY CRITICAL CONCEPTS By HENRYH. WEINBERG Our notion of Zola as a theorist and critic has hitherto been based chiefly on the articles published between 1875 and 1880...

... but profit from contact with the wealth of erudi- tion which the author has assembled. ECONSCHWARZ Washington University The Double Image: Concepts of the Poet in Slavic Literatures. By VICTOR ERLICH. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press...