... story of how Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston engaged the pressures put on them by both reactionary and avant-garde white attitudes toward dialect and, more generally, toward the social impact of ideas about literary language. Whites regularly praised the vitality and...

...Henry Kratz; Humphrey Milnes Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 KITCHENER GERMAN : A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DIALECT By HENRYKRATZ and HUMPHREYMILNES PARTI : PHONOLOGY A great part of Waterloo County, Ontario...

...Henry Kratz; Humphrey Milnes Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 KITCHENER GERMAN : A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DIALECT By HENRYKRATZ and HUMPHREYMILNES PARTI1 : MORPHOLOGY For all the time of separation from...

...Carroll E. Reed; Lester W. Seifert Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ∗ Cf. Modern Language Quarterly, VIII (1947), 267 ff., and IX (1948), 322 ff. A STUDY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DIALECT SPOKEN IN THE COUNTIES OF LEHIGH AND BERKS* By...

... study, the reading of Spenser takes on an added pleasure, giving, as it does, a more lively sense of the poet as a conscious and deliberate artist. FREDERICK M. PADELFORD University of Washington A Bibliography of Italian Dialect Dictionaries. By...

... (1934) and Dr. Wen (1936–37) question the viability of global cultural membership. For Lao She, cultural hotchpotch—as suggested by Salman Rushdie—is not an option. These novellas dramatize the dialectic between the global and the local at a crossroads of Chinese nationalism and Western imperialism. Lao...

...Charles Altieri Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness Charles Altieri n writing my Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry I Iencountered problems that make...

... chiefly of ex- traliterary value. At its best, I believe that Griffin’s book will direct readers of Marot into more fruitful critical paths than those so often trodden by earlier authorities. I. D. MCFARLANE Oxjord Dialectical Criticism...

...Mary Ann Witt Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 EUGENE IONESCO AND THE DIALECTIC OF SPACE By MARYANN WITT Throughout his journals and in his notes on the theater, Eughe Ionesco refers to the two basic states of...

... Missouri, Columbia The Dialectics of Isolation: Self and Society in the French Novel from the Realists to Proust. By RICHARDTERDIMAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Romanic Studies, Second Series, 25, 1976. xvi + 265 pp. $12.50. The subject of this book (despite...

... which her class vacillated, Bowen creates a cyclical history in which the deficiencies of gothic hysteria and detached professionalism supplement each other in a dialectical exchange. Understanding the socioeconomic circumstances underlying Bowen’s Court provides an important insight into how Bowen and...

... ceremonies. The omission of Racine’s tragic corpus is a gaping hole in Louis Marin’s discussion of the seventeenth-century theory of representation. Marin sees a perfect correlation between Pierre Corneille’s theater and the theatricality of power, conceived of as a force constructed through a dialectic...

... orientation of nationalization and realize the dialectical unity of external research and internal research. Imposed interpretation refers to the act of interpreting a literary text based on the interpreter’s subjective intention and telos, thereby deviating from the text, counteracting its literary...

... imaginative possibilities associated with the Romantic. However, this apparent tension between romance and the real ought to be seen as the dialectical face of a historicism that sought to master temporality by ending it with the arrival of the modern. The shifting narrative tenses of both realism and...

...Derek van Abbé Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE FACT OR FANCY? By DEREKVAN ABBB The basis of all philological research is the dialect, the language of daily life (German...

... terms in this list seem to be translation loanwords. Cucumber tree appears in the dialect as /gumereba:m/ or /gumerebo:m/. Rattlesnake root (Polygala senega) is /rasel.?arfwardsel/ in the dialect and Klapperschlangen~rzelin Standard German. The fact that some PaG speakers use the StG...

... written zz, in later sources it was sim- plified to z after long vowels and in final position; the velar appears in the manuscripts as hh medially (later ch) and h finally. The situation in the Franconian dialects is much more complicated.* In Middle Franconian and Rhine Franconian, WGmc...

... many of the words lost in modern Spanish have survived regionally. To judge by the relatively small proportion of lost Cid words identified dialectally, regional survivals of lost words are not abundant. Our checking of regional and dialectal Spanish was extensive although hardly exhaustive...

... dialect and language classification, particularly with reference to so-called “glottochronology”) , and a very modest effort is devoted to the establishment of certain philosophical postulates concerning language itself (“expression-content” ) . Whatever the general treatment lacks in depth...

... years, and the reasons for its final solution. The questione della lingua had its inception in Dante’s De vul- gari eloquentia and its severe condemnation of the Tuscan dialect. Dante, then, in search of a noble literary language, concludes that such a language does exist, not in any...