...S. L. Goldberg © 1959 University of Washington 1959 FOLLY INTO CRIME THE CATASTROPHE OF VOLPONE By S. L. GOLDBERG The catastrophe that befalls the protagonists of VoZpone has worried critics as it evidently worried Jonson himself...

... French Fiction (2006) and coeditor of a special issue of Yale French Studies , “Crime Fictions” (2005). Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Street Names and Private-Public Violence in Modern French Crime Fiction Andrea Goulet dgar Allan Poe’s inaugural detective story “The Murders...

... reminder that, without such scholarship, the study of nineteenth-century fiction is impoverished. DAVIDPARKER Dickens House Museum and Library Crimes of Writing:Problas in the Containment of Z%$waentation.By SUMSTEWART New York...

... intersect. A Study in Scarlet , the novella that introduced Sherlock Holmes, offers the first meditation on distant reading. A split double plot that anticipates generic fissures within crime fiction broadly conceived, A Study in Scarlet creates a data-centric detective intelligence in dialogue with late...

... an interloping male hero. In the asinine Bottom, Shakespeare offers an antidote to the exploitative model of heroism embodied in Theseus and Aeneas through a mock-heroic retelling of Aeneas’s most renowned crime. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 classical reception translation genre...

...Josefina Ludmer © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The Corpus Delicti Josefina Ludmer would like to use the juridical notion of the corpus delicti, the “body I of the crime,” in its literal sense of evidence, proof of the truth, and at the same time the literary notion...

... categories of analysis to accommodate new information. The voice of the intermediary also announces a ten- sion between chaos and order insofar as it insinuates doubt regarding the identity of citizen subjects. Equally important, it depends for its growth on such topics as sex, crime, and perversion...

... 435 his last major work, La Chute, the trial is internalized, producing an ambiguous form of selfcondemnation and self-defense, which is closer in feeling to the dizzying enigmas of the Kafkaesque experience. L’Etrunger2 follows the conventional chronological sequence of crime...

... firm and escapes to Canada. The novel appeared at a time when such cases were being reported in the news- papers frequently, and in view of the great public interest in crimes of this type, Howells had the material for a very exciting and successful story. He was writing for a purpose, however...

... for rethinking the disputatious conjunction of modernism and genre. Levay’s subject is crime and detective fiction, which he sees as feeding into (and fed by) the modernist fascination with ungovernable or outlaw behavior. Earlier work in this area, initially dubbed “pulp modernism” (noir’s focus on the detritus...

... for independence.’ Verges asserted that Barbie’s crimes were not a unique monument of evil and did not fall into the cate- gory defined by the Nuremberg trials as crimes against humanity; instead they were assimilable into the diffuse and circumstantial domain of war crimes. In the French nouueau roman...

...- tion were specific to particular locales, the definitive act of witch- craft slowly shifted from maleficium (doing harm to other people) to making compacts with Satan. In England, the 1604 statute that made witchcraft a capital crime was a kind of compromise, prohibit- ing both maleficium...

... consumer plenitude and individual freedom, and the state’s complicity in subjecting its citizens to abject destitution pro- duces doubled consciousness and “occult economies,” in which “the spectacular rise . . . of organized crime” enacts “disturbing caricatures...

... There is a new narrative pattern or plot in The Testament of Cres- seid which makes the poem an independent dramatic whole. This plot may be arbitrarily described by the three-fold sequence of contract, crime, and punishment. The contract consists of an agreement be- tween Cresseid and the gods of love...

... causes them to execute him unjustly in collusion with Claire. The outlawing of cap- ital punishment (p. 275) adds to the measure of the crime against Ill: he is condemned to death for perjury, traditionally a noncapital offense, in a nation that no longer recognizes any capital offenses...

... for independence.’ Verges asserted that Barbie’s crimes were not a unique monument of evil and did not fall into the cate- gory defined by the Nuremberg trials as crimes against humanity; instead they were assimilable into the diffuse and circumstantial domain of war crimes. In the French nouueau roman...

... of the poem as “wanton” and “Ungentle.” Further, the whole first stanza concerns itself with the troopers and the impossibility of their crime being expiated, and the next stanza begins with the words “Unconstant Sylvio,” which would indicate that Marvel1 in- tended a parallel...

... the potential consequences of the social misunderstanding and misapplication of Darwin’s theory. Curiously enough the alleged menace of Darwinism to social ethics was impressed upon both Daudet and Bourget by a crime ckZt3bre committed in Paris, April 6, 1878-the Affaire Lebie~-BarrC.~ Lebiez...

... to refracted light indicates his guilt.. . then his symbolic relation to un- obstructed light in these final lines may suggest an expiation of his crime . . .” (p. 24; my italics). There is a later reference to “the dream-reality theme” (p. 25), and a number of lines using the word dream are quoted...

..., for iron was traditionally the age in which lust, murder, avarice, and injustice made their appearance. It was the age of crime, and Dry- den’s reference in line 19 was by no means accidental. Prior cleverly glossed over his difficulty in the following way: . Shut then, auspicious...