...Virginia R. Mollenkott Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE CYCLE OF SINS IN PARADISE LOST‘, BOOK XI By VIRGINIAR. MOLLENKOTT In Milton’s Epic Voice, Anne D. Ferry points out that Paradise Lost is built in a pattern of repeated...

...Lisa Kahn Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 ORPHEUS IN THE EAST GUNTER KUNERT’S ORPHEUS CYCLE By LISA KAHN There is no Western culture in which Orpheus, the Thracian bard who enchanted with his...

... on the author’s rhetoric rather than on his subject. RICHARDKENNETH EMMERSON Walla Watla College Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle. By PETERW. TRAVIS.Chicago and Lon- don: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xvi + 3 10 pp. $20.00, paper...

...SANDRA IHLE BURNS E. JANE. Columbus: Ohio State University Press for Miami University, 1985. ix + 208 pp. $22.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 REVIEWS Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle. By E. JANE BLIKIVS.Columbus...

...Lawrence M. Clopper Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 TYRANTS AND VILLAINS CHARACTERIZATION IN THE PASSION SEQUENCES OF THE ENGLISH CYCLE PLAYS By LAWRENCEM. CLOPPER Aesthetic...

...). which Pasley has dated March/April 1917. 4Franz Kafka; Briefe an Felice, ed. Erich Heller and Jurgen Born (New York, 1967), p. 704. 422 KAFKA’S LANDARZT CYCLE Marsyas was being announced as a bimonthly of the highest literary standards. Kafka’s...

...Walter A. Reichart Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 [Reprinted from Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 4, December, 1948.1 THE GENESIS OF HAUPTMANN’S IPHIGENIA CYCLE By WALTERA. REICHART Throughout his life Hauptmann wrote as he...

... recent Icelandic scholars have been prone to claim for its author no less a person than Snorri Sturluson himself. A. LEROYANDREWS Cornell University The Lyric Cycle in German Literature. By HELENMEREDITH MUS- TARD. New York : King’s Crown...

... Stony Brook Wilhelm Miiller’s Lyrical Song-Cycles: Interpretations and Texts. Hy ALAN P. COITRELLhapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Germanic Languages and 1,i teratures, 66, 1970. I70 pp. $7.00. Happily, no attempt is made in this study to present...

.... The book ends with a list of his published writings which, to our benefit, will have to be aug- mented later. FRANK-ODE University College, London Ronsard‘s Sonnet Cycles: A Study in Tone and Vision. By DONALDSTONE, JR. New Haven...

... price and, except for pushing the notes to the back, produced the book impeccably. STEPHENA. BARNEY University of California, Imine Four Middle English Mystery Cycles: Textual, Contextual, and Critical Interpretations. By MARTINSTEVENS...

... of periodizing change. The poet dismisses understandings of historical periods as closed cycles or linear progressions that are defined by renowned individuals and monumental events. Milton reveals periods to be open-ended and helical and makes immediately sensible the quotidian events, no less apocalyptic...

.... A great deal of information has been accumu- lated concerning the form, sources, mutual influences, and language of the cycles, but many of the basic questions have yet to be answered satisfacte rily. V. A. Kolve’s The Play Called Corpus Christi offers answers to several of these questions...

... centered on artistically complex pageants, like those of the so-called Wakefield Master and York Realist. Yet, for the most part, the four extant English cycles are simple in their dramaturgy. For example, the group of episodes that begins each play by dramatizing the creation and fall...

... of Baudelaire: “Les po4mes du cycle de Mme Sabatier doivent sans doute A Poe quelque chose de leur ton d’admiration spiritualiste . . . les poitmes composCs pour Mme Sabatier doivent quelque chose h la mysticit6 amoureuse de Poe.”6 These comments by Henri Peyre typify the general attitude. Even LKon...

... which recent Icelandic scholars have been prone to claim for its author no less a person than Snorri Sturluson himself. A. LEROYANDREWS Cornell University The Lyric Cycle in German Literature. By HELENMEREDITH MUS- TARD. New York : King’s...

.... In the poem the whale is interestingly called FastitocuZon.8 Of the Partridge (and its identification is not certain) only the allegorical part has been preserved. Scholarship has been faced with two problems in the Old English Physiologus: (1) Does it constitute a small cycle complete in itself...

... tenue et le professeur Grenier montre avec bonheur les progrPs en France de l’histoire et de ses disciplines auxiliaires comme l’archkologie et l’kpigraphie. JEAN DAVID University of Washington The Cycles of the Kings. By MYLESDILLON. London...

... impeccably. STEPHENA. BARNEY University of California, Imine Four Middle English Mystery Cycles: Textual, Contextual, and Critical Interpretations. By MARTINSTEVENS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xv + 360 pp. $44.00...