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...E. H. Eby F. O. Matthiessen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. Pp. xxiv + 678. $5.00. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 E. H. Eby 655 American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman...

...Raimonda Modiano Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 WORDS AND “LANGUAGELESS” MEANINGS LIMITS OF EXPRESSION IN THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER By RAIMONDA MODIANO With its first...

... of Self-Expression. By JOAN KEES. Cam- bridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. viii + 204 pp. $39.95. Joan Kees is not one of those critics blessed with the dubious gift of being able to understand an author without appreciating him. Her book provides...

... see Pound formulating over two decades earlier, and they address the problems of expressionism in an interesting idealist way. Collingwood sees the creative act as “expressing” in the sense that it brings to articulation an impulse which begins at a “purely psychical level” (p. 229), where...

... a history of English lyrics from their beginning until today. HALDEENBRADDY Texas Western College, El Paso Elizabethan Poetry: A Study in Conventions, Meaning, and Expression. By HAUETTSMITH. Cambridge : Harvard University...

.... WILLIAMF. ROERTCEN Uttivcrsity of Illinois Ricarda Huch’s “U~eltanschauiing”as Expressed irt Her Philosophical Works artd in Her Nozds. By AUDREYFLANDREAU. A dissertation. Chicago : University of Chicago, 1948. Pp. 212. The author seeks “to prove the close inner relation” which...

... the expression of Spain’s substate national identities less belligerent as they advanced by other means the technocratic and timidly cosmopolitan mind-set that informed Franco’s later administrations. The present essay explores the differential and dissenting sensibilities of key authors who during the period...

... the obscurant that was constant in Western poetry, with vernacular Chinese expression gave birth to the New Poetry. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Chen Yongguo is professor of English at Tsinghua University. His publications include The Political Interpretation of Culture: Fredric Jameson...

... because the realist novel has been previously theorized in terms of an expressive self-production thwarted by social alienation or the usurpation of individual agency; overlooked because Hardy criticism has focused on work as a protected category of meaning creation and social continuity. Abstract value...

... the temptation to regard all lyric poems as first-person expressions of subjective feeling. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 song ballad revival performance Alfred Lord Tennyson Algernon Charles Swinburne The awarding of a Nobel Prize in Literature to a songwriter-poet raises...

... and willing to recognize them. That mix of secrecy and openness was especially attractive to gay poets, since it enabled them to express their desires obliquely by writing through authors who hinted at similar experiences. Queer allusion thus offers an alternative to long-standing theories of influence...

... in general. In a series of essays written in the 1930s, Kerényi theorized the media of ancient texts as central to cultural hermeneutics. His understanding of textual media as expressive of the essential characteristics of a culture was underpinned by a conservative-humanist critique of modernity. It shows...

... translated into Chinese at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound influence on Chinese readers’ perception of romance, marriage, and life. Chinese readers were obsessed with reading translated love stories that shed light on the way romantic love was conceived and expressed in the West...

... and the Cartesian model of human beings as both body and spirit, since language consisted of material sounds as vehicles for abstract ideas. By the eighteenth century the talking bird in literature had become a metaphor for a natural language that could express the truth in any and all circumstances. In later works...

...Yoon Sun Lee This essay examines how the concept of realism applies to minor literature by retrieving and expanding Georg Lukács’s understanding of realism as the deliberate negation of modernism. In Lukács’s view, realism distinctively expresses an aspiration to totality. Its most important device...

... explore their formation in this way may discover new ways of seeing the affiliations between subjected parts of the world. In this light, derangement also assumes a productive force: it makes available new perspectives derived from shared but diverse expressions of peripheral historicity. The fundamental...

... textual effects expresses the author’s apparent turn away from the affective history project she earlier so capably inspired. I wish to thank the following friends and interlocutors for their generous comments: Lauren Berlant, Marshall Brown, Joe Cleary, Jed Esty, Catherine Gallagher, Saidiya...

...-expressive endeavor of bodies. Moreover, his use of Lucretian physics in Paradise Lost challenges established models of providential superintendence. From Satan to the poem’s speaker to Adam and Eve, this challenge presents itself most enduringly through the Lucretian concept of self-motion, of animate...

... terms for representing the subject’s responsibility to those demands. The death drive offers a way of describing the trajectory of desire beyond anything representable, a trajectory that finds its most direct expression in the poem’s apocalyptic energies. But Piers Plowman treats even the apocalypse...

... that is constitutively informed by an awareness of debt, debit, and credit. That profane mode of thought later finds more enthusiastic expression in the early English novels of Daniel Defoe and others, but it begins to take shape in Milton, who derives it from none other than religious sources such as scripture...