... (and historical poeticians generally) oppose “the dream of unscaffolded interpretation.” I’m pretty sure that the version of historical poetics I have developed collaboratively with a group of other scholars is so deeply invested in dreams of interpretation—scaffolded and unscaffolded—that, far from rising above...

... , or No Body ? In all the Cobwebs of the Schoolmens trade, We no such nice Distinction woven see,                As ’tis To be , or Not to Be . Dream of a Shadow ! a Reflection made From the false glories of the gay reflected Bow ,                Is a more solid thing then Thou...

....’ Fol- lowing this trend, one is tempted to read the early Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood as a record of both a religious ritual and a participatory drama, even though the work is ostensibly neither ritual nor drama.* The Dream oJthe...

...STEPHEN A. BARNEY R. Edwards Robert. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1989. xvi + 189 pp. $32.50. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Rejlection in the Early Narratives. By ROBERTR. EDWARDS.Durham, N.C...

...Tamar Katz Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Tamar Katz is assistant professor of English at Brown University. She is writing a book on gender and subjectivity in modernist fiction. “In the House and Garden of His Dream”: Pater’s Domestic Subject Tamar Katz...

... of the references tedious. A. M. SAUERLANDER University of Wushington The Dream in Gerhart Hauptmann. By JOHN JACOB WEISERT.New York: King’s Crown Press, 1949. Pp. 120. v.25. Gerhart Hauptmann and Goethe. By SIEGFRIEDH. MULLER. New York...

...Patricia Drake Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 GRILLPARZER AND THE DREAM By PATRICIADRAKE The problematical figure of Grillparzer, fascinating or annoying to the beholder according to the latter’s tolerance toward human idio...

...Jacob Korg Susan Dean. Hardys Poetic Vision in The Dynasts: The Diorama of a Dream . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. x + 318 pp. $16.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 82 REVIEWS pioneering scholarship...

... on the “other side.of the Channel” but also across the Irish Sea and even a few oceans. ROBERTJ. ELLRICH University of Washington Blake’s “Four Zoas”: The Design of a Dream. By BRIANWILKIE and MARYLYNN JOHNSON.Cambridge, Mass., and London...

...Norman Arkans Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 VISION AND EXPERIENCE IN HARDY’S DREAM POEMS In 1917 Hardy copied in his notebook two sections of a poem by ‘‘a poet of the vers libre school.” As with many...

.... HENRYMENDELOFF University of Maryland Something of Great Constancy: The Art of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” By DAVIDP. YOUNG. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Studies in English, Vol. 164, 1966. 190 pp. $5.00; 37s. 6d. Something of Great Constancy is the product...

...Jane K. Brown Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 DISCORDIA CONCORS ON THE ORDER OF A MIDSUMER MGHT’S DREAM By JANE K. BROWN A Midsummer Night’s Dream is concerned with marriage, relations...

...Britton J. Harwood Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 THE WIFE OF BATH AND THE DREAM OF INNOCENCE By BRITTON J. HARWOOD The sad note some hear in the voice of the Wife of Bath ca be inte preted as “die...

... takes pastoral seriously. HAROLDTOLIVER University‘of Calfornia, Irvine Shakespearean Metadrama: The Argument of the Pluy in “Titus Andronicus, ” “Love’s Labour5 Lost,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Richard...

...Joseph E. Gallagher Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 CRISEYDE’S DREAM OF THE EAGLE LOVE AND WAR IN TROILUS AND CRISEYDE By JOSEPH E. GALLAGHER Although Criseyde’s dream of the eagle is surely among the most pro...

...Michael Ragussis Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 LANGUAGE AND METAMORPHOSIS IN WORDSWORTH’S ARAB DREAM By MICHAELRAGUSSIS Book 5 of The Prelude is usually approached with some hesitation. It seems...

.... ALAN1:. NAGEL University of Iowa The Theater and the Dream: From Metaphor to Form in Renaissance Drama. By JACKSON I. COPE. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Press, 1973. ix + 331 pp. $12.50. Jackson Cope believes that the twentieth century is “slowly...

...James L. Calderwood Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM THE ILLUSION OF DRAMA By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD Criticism of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has on the whole followed...

... and for all. The curiously spectral phenomenon of the GAN is, I feel, not a topic on which we are likely to want to hear more anytime soon, but this book makes for a fitting and enduring tribute to Buell’s distinguished career as well as to a “dream” that has persevered across more than a hundred years...

...William B. Hunter, Jr Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 PROPHETIC DREAMS AND VISIONS IN PARADISE LOST By WILLIAMB. HUNTER,JR. Paradise Lost presents a remarkably varied assortment of dreams and visions, true and false, to its two human protagonists...