... to Science, Language, and Human Experience. By THOMASCLARK POLLOCK. Princeton University Press, 1942. Pp. xxiv + 218. $3.00. This book is one of the rather large number of studies whose ultimate ancestor is Ogden and Richards’ Meaning of Meaning. Its primary purpose is to make...

... the stalemate is typically to reflect on how they interact in lived experience. Refocusing attention in this way, I offer five theses on how history and form are connected in the experience of reading: (1) Literary works are historical entities, but they are not reducible to their origins. (2) The historical...

...Stephen Arata Semi-detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens . By John Plotz . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 . xiii + 329 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 “For the whole of life is really like that,” wrote Ford...

..., and the formation of the middle class. She is working on a history of middlebrow culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, provisionally titled “Popular Novel Reading, Sexuality, and the Nation.” Jane EF, the Woman Writer, and the History of Experience Anita Levy Elizabeth...

...). He is completing one book on Descartes and his age, another on rethinking the Renaissance as part of long continental and oceanic intercultural exchanges, and an edited collection on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes . By Braider...

...Gerald L. Bruns This essay attempts to situate Samuel Beckett’s fiction in the Parisian intellectual and literary milieu of Maurice Blanchot, particularly with respect to the experience of the materiality of language and the double bind of writing in which—as Blanchot wrote in Faux pas (1943...

... in television serials, as in serialized Victorian novels, bring the experience and representation of social movement closer together by slowing narrative time over segments and placing the fictional characters in the audience’s lived experience of historical time (248). Goodlad’s four central chapters...

...Thomas Clark Pollock Francis Shoemaker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xviii + 339. $3.50. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Aesthetic Experience and the Humanities. Ey FRANCISSHOEMAKER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xviii + 339...

... with the literary representation of history and his own experience. Cowley’s poetic rethinking of the legacies of Homer, Pindar, the Anacreontea, Vergil, and Claudian parallels his resistance to mimetic treatment of his life and passions. This orientation toward literary history at the expense of representation...

...Stephen Hinds [email protected] The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers . By Derek Attridge . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xiii + 445 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Derek Attridge’s latest book takes...

...Emma Mason Abstract The radicalism of Christianity is often underplayed in literary studies by scholars who perceive its theology as politically suspect and inflexible. Yet an unwillingness to engage with Christian theology and experience produces critical misreadings of literary texts that reveal...

...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...

...: Lariguuge and Female Experience in Nineteenth-CerituT Women k Writing. By MARGARETHOMANS. Chicago and London: University of Chi- cago Press, Women in Culture and Society, 1986. xiv + 326 pp. $22.00. At least since Virginia Woolf remarked on the shape of.Jane Austen’s sentence, people have...

.... ALAN6. DESSEN Northwestern University Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience. By ROBERTBECHTOLD HEILMAN.Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1968. xiii + 326 pp. $8.95. P began reading this book with feelings of considerable enthusiasm. Here...

...Juliet McMaster Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 EXPERIENCE TO EXPRESSION THEMATIC CHARACTER CONTRACTS IN TRISTRAM SHANDY By JULIET MCMASTER Tristram Shundy, a novel of which...

...Glyn P. Norton Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 RETROSPECTIVE TIME AND THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE IN ROUSSEAU By GLYNP. NORTON There are few places in Rousseau’s autobiographical writings where he appears to take...

...Lawrence D. Berkoben Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 CHRISTABEL: A VARIETY OF EVIL EXPERIENCE By LAWRENCED. BERKOBEN Shortly after the death of his uncle, H. N. Coleridge coined the epithet “witchery by daylight” to describe...

... judiciousness and circumspection with which the author has marshaled relevant sources. ANDREVON GRONICKA University of Pennsylvania Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake. By E. D. HIRSCH,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press...

...Werner Vordtriede Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 CLEMENS BRENTANO’S NOVALIS EXPERIENCE By WERNERVORDTRIEDE In his book Clemens Brentanos Liebedeben’ Lujo Brentano pub- lished, for the first time...

... and theory of literary criticism and is working on a book about narrative. The Future of Literary Study: An Experiment in Guesswork David Gorman o an outside observer, be it an alien anthropologist or a curious Thigh school student, modern literary study exhibits some highly dis...