... ) reveals the shortcomings of any interpretive desire to fix the text, not simply because the story delights in Romantic instability but because it posits phenomena of music and their effects as forces that frustrate every effort to localize. What Eichendorff presents to the reader is itself a “marble...

...Aaron Kunin This essay defines character as a device that collects every example of a kind of person. This formalist definition derives from seventeenth-century books of characteristic writings. The essay tests this definition against the antiformalist one derived from the realist novel, in which...

...David Gorman The fundamental structure of literary study has stayed remarkably constant during the last seventy-five years: professional teaching and research have revolved around “criticism,” or the exegesis of individual works, and every other aspect of literary study has been treated...

...Jeffrey T. Schnapp The essay explores how literary practices of listing, cataloging, and inventorying are altered by the shift from classical, premodern, and early modern regimes of data scarcity (within which every piece of information is considered valuable a priori) to modern regimes of data...

... and, implicitly, in the more recent milieu of the Internet. Are some poets professionals, even if poetry does not pay? Who owns the poem, the writer or the reader? Does the writer own every version of the poem, or only the original? What, if anything, distinguishes professionals from amateurs, writers from...

... “end of literature” essay. “Western Literary Theory in China” ends with a section about something the three Chinese authors do not stress, namely, the major changes in literary theory in every country, including China, brought about willy-nilly by the shift from print media to digital media. What...

...Kent Puckett This essay follows several changes in the dating of “The Darkling Thrush” to ask what the number 1900 might have meant to Thomas Hardy. Although Hardy did not make many edits to the poem itself, he did change the way that it was dated at every opportunity: in manuscript, the date...

... an unexpected problem. For the vocabulary one is tempted to use in describing the book consists of uncritical adjectives- “beaiitiful,” “stimulating,” “brilliant,” “impressive”-and other emotive words which every student, early in his career, has been instructed to avoid. Therefore, one must curb...

... Sartrean vocabulary. It is appropriate that Sartre’s work be studied through its imagery. This is precisely what Marie-Denise Boros has done in a most satisfying manner. Un Skquestrt: &’Hornme sartrien has the multiple virtue of providing a sharp focus, of revealing how almost every detail...

... of the title expand into a dialectical dichotomy that operates 378 REVIEWS at every level of the poetic process to define a fundamental distinction and relationship-between morality and aesthetics, the Real and realism, Nature...

... almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education” (XVI, 37).2 In Pudd’nhead Wilson the communal norms of Dawson’s Landing, the antebellum Missouri village in which the novel is set, determine every character’s thoughts and actions. The town is the most bigoted...

... . . . for every thing” (p. 449). Of course vice is alluring: it is supposed to be. But we perceive Mary as odious throughout. She and her brother may be more inter- esting than Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram-more fun at a din- ner party-but we know that immorality can be more seductive...

.... It is quite incomprehensible how a major press could have published a book that contains infelicities and errors on almost every page. The book is nominally in English, but it is conceived in Russian and expressed in a strange and distracting idiom. The style is turgid, jarring, incorrect. One...

... ecclesiologists have found many indications that the rosary did not approximate its present form until the middle of the fifteenth century.8 The beads called “gauds” may not have been intended for Pater nosters in Chaucer’s time. The rosary consists of fifteen decades of Ave Marks, every decade...

... and then by a series of actions with a view to be freed from it. As Captain Booth asserts that “every man acted entirely from that passion which was uppermost,” Franklin asserts that uneasiness, the sole source of all our desires and passions, is “the first Spring and Cause of all Actions...

... patterns which should be challenged : (1 ) the so-called “eye-rime,” with its very questionable literary value, e.g., evil / devil, mood / good; (2) forced rimes, e.g., keen and schrewd / knightlihood, done / thrown, every sauce / gluttonous, to a cave / rarely drave, frd / afoot...

... be stated as follows: Every organism or or- ganization, if it is to survive and function properly, must achieve and maintain an ordered unity also discovers that “eventually, personal disunity becomes obvious in all the main characters except Octavius.” Everyone, or nearly...

... illustrations. First, \ye are told that below the lines of the tcxt “selected draft variants” are givcn. ILLUSTRATIOS: “by every word and every suggestion Preface, 11. 142-43. “by every word and sentenceDraft oi MS, Second, we are told of variant...

... of societies that languished in the outer confines of the system. In every colonial and neocolonial situation the indigenous ruling class, displaced or forced into the diminished role of mediator by the metropolitan power, eventually develops strategies to challenge progressively more openly...

... precision goes to the nun who overhears strange groans emanating from the shrine of Saint Clare “almost every five minutes” (ibid.: 363), a phenomenon that similarly transforms the human body (that of the imprisoned Agnes) into a clock, whose tolling seems to keep time with the abbey bell...