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...Nan Cooke Carpenter Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 ∗ Paper read at the meeting of the Modern Language Association in Detroit, December 28, 1951. THE AUTHENTICITY OF RABELAIS’ FIFTH BOOK: MUSICAL CRITERIA* By NAN...

...Yosefa Raz Abstract Between 1741 and 1750 Robert Lowth, Oxford’s fifth chair of poetry, presented a series of groundbreaking lectures that reimagined the Hebrew Bible as literature, emphasizing its artful formal qualities. Today he is best known for rediscovering the parallelism of ancient Hebrew...

..., second edition (revised), 1960. Pp. xvii + 359. $1.75. Farrell, R. B. Morike: Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., Studies in German Literature, No. 3, 1W.Pp. 62. 6s. 6d. $1.25. Distributed in the U.S.A. by St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10...

... Concerts du Conservatoire’s little hall was filled to capacity with cheering audiences, tickets had to be purchased months in advance, the famous soprano Malibran swooned the first time she heard the Fifth Symphony, Vigny began an unfinished poem in an epical mood entitled Beethoven...

... Obligation in England, 1640– 1674 (Princeton,(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming). 24 MLQ March 2005 I begin by reading the Decalogue in the context of Judaism, with an emphasis on the Fifth Commandment as a meditation...

...” The continually shifting tension and interplay between these atti- tudes provide the psychological drama of “The Garden.” The voice and attitude of the Body dominate the poet’s consciousness during the first five stanzas, and I should like to begin with the famous fifth stanza which celebrates the Body...

... and he should try to undermine Maecenas’ opinion of Virgil, Horace delivers a forthright rebuke. He is first bored and then out- raged by Crispinus, and is determined not to put up with him. In the fifth scene of the act Horace gives a defense of his satires in conversa- tion with Trebatius. He...

... . . . with a social code that was regressive and blinkered” (p. 32). The early novels are weak because they advocate effete traditionalism and nostalgia without presenting work- able political alternatives. The Fifth Queen, Green argues, set in the past, was a more successful vehi- cle for Ford’s...

..., and Burton mentions this in his third edition (3rd ed. [ 16281, p. 238 ; Bell, 11, 57). Apparently intrigued by comets, Burton comes back to them again in the fifth edition and says that they “argue, with those Medicean, Austrian and Bourbonian stars, that the heaven of the Planets...

... form elaborations of the sins of Satan, Eve, and Adam, respectively; the fourth vision further elaborates the first; and the fifth elaborates the second. It is at the end of the fifth vision that, for reasons to be discussed later, Milton breaks off the series of visions and draws Book XI...

..., ideas, and events as types in the world.26 The project is not simply to abolish the racial ste- reotype with an empirical fact but also to examine the ground of what makes any type possible. I will focus here on two texts, Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter and Kingston’s Woman Warrior...

... and an edition of Phaedrus with notes in English were read in the lower grades. Greek grammar was begun in the schools in the third, fourth, or fifth form, and next the Greek New Testament was studied. Meanwhile the pupils were progressing to the more dif- ficult Latin authors. At St. Paul’s in 1690...

... in the Spenserian’s rhyme scheme: the stanza begins with what might feel like an opening quatrain, with its familiar, regular alternations back and forth ( abab ), but the fourth line can either end the quatrain, before a new quatrain starts in the fifth line ( bcbc ), or feel closely linked to the fifth, taking...

... (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1987). Malkin Postcolonial Concepts and Ancient Greek Colonization 345 the Persian invasion in the early fifth century BCE. It was the first time, since the mythical Trojan War, that Greeks had fought a common en- emy, sharpening their common identity...

... of the cauldron indicates that the fifth act was then the same as it is in the extant text. But since the middle of the last century, the integrity of this text has been constantly assailed : (1) Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, 2nd...

... of the author. For those who knew him the book will reflect his enthusiasm for his subject, his good sense and native shrewdness, and his confident and lusty downrightness. Four-fifths of the volume (Part I) is devoted to Geoffrey’s Historia. From a full commentary on its place...

... Prologue, after all, is the exchange of blows with her fifth husband, during which she loses her hearing in one ear. The episode ties the Wife of Bath’s con- fessional narrative to the pilgrim Chaucer’s vignette of her in the General Prologue, where her partial deafness initiates the catalogue...

... that God encompasses and interpenetrates the universe but at the same time is greater than and independent of it. The first few verses of Saint John’s Gospel are also relevant. To the author of the fifth hermetic libellus, as to Henry Vaughan, the Lord manifested himself “ungrudgingly through all...

.... The lines about the “Myrtle Arbours” are derived from lines 4 and 5 of the Latin: 34 Accent and Qzmntity in ‘A Booke of Ayres’ cras amorum copulatrix inter umbras arborum inplicat cams virentes de flagello myrteo ; and the whole fifth strophe is an expansion...

... structure near the end (for Zatti, the last fifth) of the poem. As the title of his study indicates, Zatti wants to locate the Furioso some- where between romance and epic. But he also argues that it progresses from romance to epic or, more precisely, that as it moves toward its epic closure Ariosto...