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... and Fire: The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne’s Arthurian Tale and Bal’mont’s Medieval Georgian Epic Martin Bidney s Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and his more recent Culture and A Imperialism make clear, the postcolonial literary historian enjoys opportunities...

... the state socialist past to a global egalitarian future challenge both Russian and “Western” narratives in our increasingly interconnected world. The Georgian-born Russian-language poet Keti Chukhrov, in particular, theorizes powerlessness in deeply local yet globally familiar ways. Despite the many voices...

...~, the bc-st knownamong a group of languages classified as Caucasian, Georgian has been a rather obscure entity to most Western scholars for a long time. Ignorance of its liiigiiistic aspects has been a frequent source of strange theories and misconceptions among armchair philologists...

... is a courageous scholar, and Writers and Rebels opens a radically new window on the history and culture of the region. Gould’s mastery of Chechen, Arabic, Russian, and Georgian enables her to explore depths and nuances of Islamic resistance and anticolonial sentiment that scholarly dependence on Russian...

... to his corpus till his first play, The Ri- uals (1775), was two centuries old. Since that book, Jack Durant’s in the Twayne series, both John Loftis’s Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian Eng- land (1976) and Mark Auburn’s have appeared. With Cecil Price’s excellent editions of The Letters...

... and that “the climate in which his [George’s] esoteric and aristocratic poetry could be appre- ciated was prepared, if not created by other men and by other influences” (p. 10). The introduction, “A Poet Aloof,” and the first chapter, “The Georgian Pro- test,” are especially valuable for any serious student...

... (2005). His current project, from which this article is derived, is a study of intersections between literature and music culture in late Georgian Britain. The Female Penseroso: Anna Seward, Sociable Poetry, and the Handelian Consensus Gillen D’Arcy Wood hey called it “Handelomania...

.... His autobiographical sketch (ironically entitled “A Georgian Boyhood”) is a remarkable piece of self-analysis, and in addition, a penetrating study of the forces that shaped his intellectual and artistic development. Here, in passing, is his evaluation of English public schools...

... of Lady Katherine Paston, 1603-1627. Norfolk Record Society, vol. XIV, 1941. Pp. 152. Jones, Louis C. The Clubs of the Georgian Rakes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. xi + 259. $2.75. 503 504 Boo ks Re ceivcd...

... as the indiscriminate use of Georgian and Georgean on pp. 123 ff. WALTERA. REICHART University of Michigan De la vicissitude ou varie‘tk des choses en Punivers. By LOYSLE ROY. Selections with an Introduction by BLANCHARDW. BATES. Pp. vii + 54. Extraits sur la...

...” (p. ix), in characterizing one literary generation as it replaces another. Matters such as Woolfs literary paternity (the fiction of Sterne, Austen, Dickens, and Meredith), her attempt to be a voice for her own “Georgian” generation, and her constant “effort” to confront the void she felt...

... of footnote 61 (p. 147), Studenglas (p. 198)’ Zeitscrift (p. 207)’ Iskender for Iskander (p. 207), as well as the indiscriminate use of Georgian and Georgean on pp. 123 ff. WALTERA. REICHART University of Michigan De la vicissitude ou varie‘tk des choses...

.... What saves the book as a whole is its over-all approach and design, which forces Connolly to communicate more than he consciously intended, and ulti- mately, to dramatize his own failure. Seen against the backdrop of “A Georgian Boyhood,” Connolly’s inadequacies as a critic take on new...

..., there was no critical book in English devoted to his corpus till his first play, The Ri- uals (1775), was two centuries old. Since that book, Jack Durant’s in the Twayne series, both John Loftis’s Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian Eng- land (1976) and Mark Auburn’s have appeared. With Cecil Price’s...

... argument. As such it challenges the emphases of the NEH Wordsworth exhibition, and also the cultural history of Georgian writing offered by Marilyn Butler. In both, Wordsworth’s position is con- firmed on grounds of representativeness: his French connection, empirical mind, and country ways...

..., the sea-is reminiscent of the pastoral tendencies of the Georgian poets in England. . . . [Borges’s] notion of linguistic innovation focused on the substitution of free verse for rhyme and on metaphor as an image- creating device. Far from participating in social rebellion, Borges...

... of Europe and in the overemphasis he put on Germany’s leadership in what he visualized as “the defense of the West.” Yet David possesses enough impartiality to balance this picture by pointing to George’s self-imposed exile in Switzerland after 1933 and to the participation of several Georgianer...

... attributed to the great Georgian himself. Although they are supposed to have been discovered among miscellan• eous papers of George Keats, the poet's brother opinion on them generally has been based upon the style and poetic excellence of the work itself, rather than upon tradition. The poems...