...Joseph Butwin Michael Ragussis. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. ix + 340 pp. $54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Reviews Figures of Conversion: “TheJewish Question ” and English National Identity. By Michael Ragussis. Durham...

...Zsolt Komáromy Abstract The conversational style of William Cowper’s poetry owes much to the influence of Charles Churchill. Despite this connection, the two poets occupy different niches in literary history: Churchill is remembered as a practitioner of the declining tradition of satirical poetry...

... are “but talk,” deriving from it the “funda- mental premise” of his work: “the eighteenthcentury familiar letter, like 94 REVIEWS eighteenthcentury conversation, is a performance-an ‘act’ in the theatri- cal sense as well as a ‘speech-act...

... © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 conversation historical poetics interpretation lyric intention Systems theory (Luhmann 1991 ), discourse networks (Warner 2002 ), historical poetics (Jackson 2005 ), distant reading (Moretti 2013 ), language ideologies (Silverstein 2017...

... of Paradise Lost that puts drama, dialogue, and conversation at the center. In the dramatic Milton, meaning is found in dialogue and conversation, growing out of the noise of debate and conflict. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes tragedy...

...Matthew Wickman This essay addresses the relationship between shape and number that is implicit to the conversion of statistics into forms of visual display. It does so by way of the work and legacy of Robert Burns, particularly the well-known poems “To a Louse” and “To a Mouse.” Bearing...

... approach to the field. It also, however, presents some egregious lapses in basic biblical and theological literacy that mar otherwise meticulous contemporary scholarship. This article hopes to open a conversation on how such glaring errors and misunderstandings have found their way into peer-reviewed work...

... takes the form of a three-cornered conversation that links Pascalian thinking not only to the Hobbes of Leviathan but to the Hegel of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Elements of Right and to the Wittgenstein of the late, sadly fruitless notebook On Certainty . [email protected]...

... the elements that Lu Xun’s story cannibalizes from Russian intertexts, which have themselves defied straightforward categorizations such as realism, the article intervenes in long-standing discussions about the nature of realism in modern China and, more broadly, in recent conversations about peripheral...

... 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...

..., scholars focus on acts 2 through 4, where the play in question is rehearsed and staged. However, overlooking the frame in acts 1 and 5, where the subject of the interior play is chosen and the problematic consequences of the actor’s conversion are laid out, obscures Rotrou’s true theme, which is neither...

... devoir de violence (Mali), Les soleils des indépendances (Côte d’Ivoire), and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Ghana). Only Devoir has been particularly important to the conversation about postcolonial literature and form, thanks to Kwame Anthony Appiah. Andrade’s first claim is that the relation...

...; conversely, literary studies rarely consider empiricist political theory in contexts later than Victorian realism. Wells’s works challenge these conventions by reflecting on the writings of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Wells questions the social contract hypothesis that individual interests...

... t 240 pp. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Carla Kaplan argues that for women, writing is an act of seeking a utopian space of conversation but that such a space is rarely found. For her, women’s writing marks the desire for an ideal listener and the frustration of not find- ing one. Like...

... literature a unifying principle for his episodic fictions. The conversion of Robinson Crusoe and the long-delayed conversion of Moll Flanders are not forced intrusions of piety; on the con- trary, they give precise focus to the narrative. In Roxana the influence of spiritual autobiography...

... Renuissance, 1575-1675. By JOHN LEON LIEVSAY.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Pp. xii 4- 344. $7.50. Huizinga, in his biography of Erasmus, long ago pointed out how much the Renaissance loved the image of the conversation in a garden: intelligent and beautiful people...

...- planation of the Grail Castle episode in the Percevul as a symbolic rendering of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif setting forth the poet’s theme, the conversion of the Jews to Christianity (Chapter IV). A fifth chapter summarizes Holmes’s in- vestigations. In Part Two (by Sister Amelia) we are offered...

... of the brilliant mascu- line conversation she now enjoyed. Henry Fuseli, a man of fifty-oney was first in this brilliant galaxy for his scintillating conversation. Of Swiss parentage, he was an engraver and painter of note. Though a close friend of Blake, he was cautious in the face of Blake’s unortho...