... for publication before passing definitive judg- ment on this great enterprise as conceived and carried on by Mr. Armstrong and his associates. EDWINB. PLACE Northwest ern University Voltaire, Pascal and Human Destiny. By MINA WATERMAN.New York: King’s...

... Contraries: Freedom versus Destiny. By PETERL. THORSLEV,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. ix + 225 pp. $21.50. Romantic Contraries assesses the ambitious task of Romantic thought to create a valid cosmic vision and reform human existence. A new, radical interpretation...

...Laurent LeSage Robert Cohen. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1968. viii + 164 pp. $8.00. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 LAURENT LESAGE 463 Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny. By ROBERTCOHEN. Chicago...

..., for a complete understanding. If this is to com- mit the “affective fallacy” and judge a work of art by its results, illuminat- ing what a play is by what it does, then I willingly condone the offense. J. L. STYAN University of Michigan Destiny...

...Lucy Lawrence Edwin Everitt Williams. Editions XVII Siècle. Cambridge, Mass., 1940. Pp. 35. Cloth $1.50; paper 80 cents. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 318 Reviews Tragedy of Destiny. By EDWINEVERITT WILLIAMS. Editions XVII Sitcle...

...Helen Andrews Kahin Thomas Elyot, Sir Edwin Johnston Howard. Oxford, Ohio: The Anchor Press, 1940. Pp. ix+85. $1.25. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 318 Reviews Tragedy of Destiny. By EDWINEVERITT WILLIAMS. Editions XVII Sitcle...

... the artist, and the artist in his turn is the man of genius, highest representative of humanity. Thomas Mann’s statement, therefore, could very well be reversed: whenever our author talks about himself, he talks about us. It is this interest in man, the deep concern about his destiny...

... . . . ” (p. 108). By defining such key words and phrases as “destiny,” “the absurd,” “the demon,” “human dignity,” and “virile fraternity,” Blend presents a coherent description of Malraux’s tragic humanism” (the phrase is Malraux’s own). He defends Malraux’s description of himself as a humanist...

... the enormous, imper- sonal powers of Nature, Destiny, and God. Available documents show that from 1849 until his death in 1863 Vigny made this poem a part of each of his several plans for the group which became Les Destinkes.’ Our questioning of the poem must, therefore, be limited to asking in what...

... destiny, and all that we can do is with calm courage to hold the reins firmly, and to guide the wheels, now to the left, now to the right, avoiding a stone here, or a precipice there. Who can tell whither he is being borne? seeing he hardly remembers whence he has come” (Bohn, 11, 312...

... “of events completed, over and done with, events that have entered history once and for all.” 12 Perhaps unusually, the cognate English term, recite , is not deceptive, for it concerns what has happened, which is to say, from the standpoint of an ex post facto account of it, what figures as destiny...

.... He does not,’for example, relate Balzac’s notion of the fatal dialectic between limitless desire and a suicidal destiny to Durkheim’s analysis of anomie or treat the signifi- cant relation between this dialectic and socioeconomic processes prominent in a capitalistic system. Instead he tends...

.... KENNETH A. BRUFFEE 327 moment only by lying can he fulfill the “destiny in life” which he was earlier so afraid of missing. To fulfill his destiny he must act positively, because to act negatively would be to “accept damnation” passively. Marlow’s...

... of that culture to the James River, and of missionary zeal in the South Seas, here achieve a brilliant synthesis. He explains how the doctrine of God’s election, fused with Manifest Destiny, under the last of the Tudors and the first of the Stuarts produced the structure of the British Empire...

..., “far from being the central subject of the novels, hecomes a sort of context which permits the outlines of human destiny to appear in all their poignancy.” It is hard to see exactly what he means by this. One might with equal justification say of Otlzello that jealousy, far from being...

... the 1933 Bohn and the new version: “The coursers of time, lashed, as it were, by invisible spirits, hurry on the light car of our destiny, and all that we can do is with calm courage to hold the reins firmly, and to guide the wheels, now to the left, now to the right, avoiding a stone here...

... the mystery of genius remains, in Boswell’s case, just that. RICHARDD. ALTICK Worthington, Ohio Romantic Contraries: Freedom versus Destiny. By PETERL. THORSLEV,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. ix + 225 pp. $21.50...

..., this history reveals the fulfillment of a divinely ordained destiny- the bestowal upon the Heraclids of “the wealth-giving thrones / Of their heritage, Pelops’ isle” (4 15- 16)-and offers promise for Aepytus’ success in avenging Cresphontes and claiming his throne. For Merope, the history...

... of standing as the wishful figure for causality itself, a “fatal symbol of destiny” ( PC , 237). In a similar way, postcolonial readings see the novel as symptomatic of French imperialism, on view in the contemporary invasion of Algeria (1830). La peau de chagrin briefly serves as a colonialist emblem...

...; their destinies were more consistent than Marvell’s seemed to him. In the end, Marvell’s chief consistency seems to have lain in his allegiance to government itself, according to the book’s argument, not to any of the forms of government he worked so hard, on occasion, to justify. Both the King...