.... PERELLA University of Callfornia, Berkeley Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom. By VICTORBROMBERT. New York: Random House, Studies in Language and Literature, SLL 24, 1968. xii -I- 209 pp. $2.45, paper. Victor Brombert has written a book which is authoritative...

... Contraries: Freedom versus Destiny. By PETERL. THORSLEV,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. ix + 225 pp. $21.50. Romantic Contraries assesses the ambitious task of Romantic thought to create a valid cosmic vision and reform human existence. A new, radical interpretation...

... on Borges-published here for the first time. RAYVERZASCONI University of California, Riverside Degrees of Freedom: The Novels of Iris Murdoch. By A. S. BYA~.New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965. 224 pp. $6.00. Iris Murdoch first appeared...

...Matthew J. Smith Love as Human Freedom . By Paul A. Kottman . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . x + 241 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Paul A. Kottman asks us to entertain an unnerving possibility at the end of Othello : “In the murder...

...Joshua Scodel Hamlet and its protagonist place liberty at their center of vision by exploring its diverse senses. Freedom in Hamlet is of different kinds, always limited and hard to obtain or keep. The play's other characters serve as clarifying foils to Hamlet himself, who as the closely watched...

...James Kuzner With emphasis on John Donne, George Herbert, and Henry Vaughan, this essay explores metaphysical poetry’s strange meditations on the theme of freedom. This poetry displays—vividly, idiosyncratically, and with important differences—what Alain Badiou suggests and what Hannah Arendt...

... poetry, Hegel, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Freud. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between , coedited with Wolfgang Iser, appeared in 1996. Descartes’s Cogito, Kant’s Sublime, and Rembrandt’s Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom Sanford Budick...

... is currently working on a book-length study of Georg Büchner. Skullduggery: Goethe and Oken, Natural Philosophy and Freedom of the Press Helmut Muller-Sievers For Giza von MolnPr on his sixty-fifth birthday There seems to be a blemish on Goethe’s portrait as the benign elder...

...) a powerful way of recasting the relationship between ideology and human moral freedom. Badenhaim is a grotesque, Kafkaesque “allegory of European Jewry on the eve of its annihilationA group of highly assimilated Austro- Jewish vacationers flock, as they do every year, to the resort town...

...Juliet Shields Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640 – 1940 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. University of Washington 2009 Juliet Shields is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington...

...Valerie Forman By viewing economic, political, and literary developments through the anachronistic lens of neoliberalism, this essay calls attention to largely overlooked interrelations between the market and seventeenth-century arguments for political freedom. The essay tracks the trope of the neo...

... at Makerere in 1962 shows that many African writers were drawn to modernist principles of intellectual freedom and writerly detachment. Figures such as Rajat Neogy, Christopher Okigbo, and Wole Soyinka, all strongly associated with these emerging cultural institutions, repurposed modernist versions...

...Nicholas Carr Abstract This article places the works of American Romantic history in the tradition of the nineteenth-century novel. The result is a reframing of a strand of historiography that, for all its great men and its laws of progress, has at its core a realist negation of the freedoms...

...: the literary antiauthoritarianism in his drama (the irony granting audiences the freedom of interpretation) perfectly matched the political antiauthoritarianism (liberalism) advocated by the likes of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Thus it is possible to speak of bardolatry as an allegorical intertext...

... of everything that has been lost and forgotten on the earth's surface; and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1914 words-in-freedom epic, Zang Tumb Tumb , in which commercial inventories are used as overlays to explode (rather than preserve) memories. Jeffrey T. Schnapp's latest publications are SPEED limits...

... hungers after a freedom that is total, a freedom that is above all unchecked from within. Byron understood these aspirations; to a great extent he shared them and tried to act them out. Washington, the responsible revolutionary, he admired; Napoleon, the grasping, extravagant adventurer...

... as for teaching the cate- gorical imperative, Kant followed Milton’s performance in consider- able detail; and (3) to use the relation of the Groundwork to the poem (and its line) to understand what the “test” of talent and freedom can mean in a kind of learning...

...- ter, on Diderot’s Epicureanism, it is relatively abstract and philosophical. In the chapter on Casanova, however, it becomes a more concrete, sexual plea- sure ( 107). This particular form of pleasure is treated as significant not only in itself but also as the “embodiment”of a freedom...

..., including the poetry of Wordsworth, Holderlin, and Byron. Freedom, as Isaiah Berlin pointed out, is in the democratic Western tradi- tion essentially a negative concept: it is always freedom from-a repressive society, a tyrannical state, a demanding God. Unless one keeps this in mind...

... of Literary Canon Formation (1993). Bourdieu’s Refusal John Guillory And this is that famous human freedom which everyone brags of having, and which consish only in this: that men are conscious of their appetite and igno- rant of the causes by which they are determined...