...David Lindley The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-factor. By Bruce R. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 386 pp; The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance. By Michele Sharon Jaffe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

...Vera M. Kutzinski The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures . By Harris Feinsod . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 413 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 These days few critical monographs compel me to read them cover...

...Ernst Loeb Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 SARTRE’S NO EXIT AND BRECHT’S THE GOOD WOMAN OF SETZUAN: A COMPARISON By ERNSTLOEB Sartre’s all-important conclusion that “you are your life, and noth- ing else” (p. 45)l...

... upon a truer algebraic figure than the one he considers “der Weisheit letzten Schluss” for Kleist. SIGURDBURCKHARDT Ohio State University Two Spanish Masterfieces: The “Book of Good Love” and “The Celestina.” By Martfa ROSA LIDADE MALKIEL...

... or nation. Finally, it is of interest to note that, given the problem of destiny as plot, all three dramatists, Shake- speare, Sophocles, and Racine, produced plays of striking simi- larities. In conclusion Mr. Williams raises a question which should prove a good basis...

...Sondra J. Stang A READING OF FORD'S THE GOOD SOLDIER By SONDRA J. STANG The subject of The Good Soldier is the fall of a great civilization and the consequent necessity that the narrator feels to make some sense of what has happened and why...

...ALAN P. COTTRELL ON SPEAKING THE GOOD GOETHE’S IPHIGENIE AS “MORALISCHES URPHANOMEN” By ALANP. COTTRELL The twenty-two centuries that separate Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris (1 779; rev. 1786-87...

...E. H. Eby Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 DID WHITMAN WRITE THE GOOD GRAY POET? By E. H. EBY It is generally accepted that William Douglas O’Connor wrote The Good Gray Poet. The book is dated September 2, 1865, signed by O’Connor...

...Rudolph Fiehler “I SERVE THE GOOD DUKE OF NORFOLK” By RUDOLPHFIEHLER In The Merry Devil of Edwiontoiz, which appeared on the English stage as early as 1604, and which was thereafter persistently popular,’ there are some fifteen rather puzzling repetitions...

...David Simpson Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State . By Bruce Robbins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xviii + 304 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 David Simpson is G. B. Needham Distinguished Professor...

...Sheila Delany W. Rowe Donald. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. x + 218 pp. $22.95. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Through Nature’to Eternity: Chaucer’s “Legend of Good Women.” By DONALDW. ROWE.Lincoln...

... (1995). The Market of Printed Goods: On Bourdieu’s Rules William Paulson In December 1995, during the second month of the largest wave of strikes and social protest France had seen since May 1968, Pierre Bourdieu was one of the leading intellectual figures to lend his sup- port...

... Review 275 of the epigraph undercuts its content, at least once you have read Pynchon s re-creation of German rocket science. Jackson nicely observes how a good motto can have the effect of a found poem, but he is weaker on George Eliot s invented epigraphs, which are made poems: far more interesting...

... with realist narrative. But The Sopranos is actually a postmodern hybrid that tends toward narrative dispersion, logical discontinuity, and formal experimentation.8 Serial television since The Sopranos has taken a vari- 5 Robyn R. Warhol, Having a Good Cry...

...: Are literary scholars too arrogant for their own good or just too paranoid or suspicious? Do we focus so much on small differences that we miss the big picture? Hallow theories long past their shelf life? Or are we just lousy readers of the literary objects we once thought we knew? Crucially, the “we” invoked...