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... is constructed of images arranged in ordered sequence, interrelated, and developed to a climax in which they are all brought together. He discusses each series separately and in great detail, as, for instance, the images relating to sight and its opposite blindness. These two qualities can be physical...

...Frederick A. Klemm Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 FREDERICK THE GREAT AND THE GERMAN LANGUAGE By FREDERICKA. KLEMM Frederick the Great, who was ruler of Prussia during Germany’s literary ascendancy, bears...

...Arnold Williams Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 BROWNING’S “GREAT TEXT IN GALATIANS” By ARNOLDWILLIAMS In seeking to injure the simple Brother Lawrence, “my heart’s ab- horrence,” the speaker in Browning’s “Soliloquy of the Spanish...

...Lisa Schnell Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Lisa Schnell is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is writing a book, with Andrew Barnaby, titled Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Literature . “SO Great...

... in Paradise Regained. The plague of 1665 and the great fire of 1666 are described as “contested spectacles,” variously interpreted as challenges to or validations of the restored church and state. The death of Samson is similarly contested, but hoppers suggests that Samson Agonistes was designed...

... in the formation of twentieth-century American modernisms. Her book American Pulp is forthcoming. Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression . By Retman Sonnet . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii + 322 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference...

...Paul Giles The Dream of the Great American Novel . By Buell Lawrence . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2014 . xii + 567 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Though he perhaps remains best known for his landmark book...

...George Woodcock Frank Field. Cambridge, New York, London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 212 pp. $13.95. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 GEORGE WOODCOCK 105 Three French Writers and the Great War: Studies...

... Policy Research Working Paper 3496 , January . www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2005/02/15/000112742_20050215142758/Rendered/PDF/wps3496.pdf . Vincent David . 2000 . The Rise of Mass Literacy . Oxford : Blackwell . The Great Unwritten: World Literature...

...Thomas B. Stroup Maurice Kelley. Princeton University Press, 1941. Pp. xiv + 269. $5.00. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Thomas B. Stroup 327 This Great Argument: A Study of Milton’s “De Doctrina Chris- tiana...

.... HENRYMENDELOFF University of Maryland Something of Great Constancy: The Art of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” By DAVIDP. YOUNG. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Studies in English, Vol. 164, 1966. 190 pp. $5.00; 37s. 6d. Something of Great Constancy is the product...

...David Parker OSCAR WILDE’S GREAT FARCE THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST By DAVIDPARKER It is generally agreed that The Zmportance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, but there is little agreement on why...

... Occult: The Great Extension. By MARTHABANTA. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1972. 273 pp. $9.50. There are few books on Henry James which manage to escape entirely the enticing trap set by the Master’s own theorizing on the art of fiction, espe- cially his. Time...

... in his biography either footnotes or any extensive discussion of sources. J. H. E. SLATER University of Washington The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech. By JOSEPH SAR- GENT HALL. New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of th*e...

...Edward Pechter S. IDE RICHARD. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xvi + 253 pp. $16.50. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS Possessed with Greatness: The Heroic Tragedies of Chapman and Shakespeare. By RICHARDS...

...Ashley Marshall Most modern scholars have taken for granted that Henry Fielding admired and sought to emulate the great “Scriblerian” satirists we consider the titans of their age. That Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay exerted a major influence on his development is a critical...

... unchanged. However, Lu Xun's vision of literature and his writing techniques also draw on features common to symbolism, surrealism, supernatural realism, grotesque realism, magic realism, and other experimental forms. Since these are modernist, even postmodern, features, it would be of great interest...

...Chengzhou He Because the theories of Chinese modernity are mainly organized around a masculine norm and pay insufficient attention to the specificity of women's lives and experiences, it is of great significance to carry out research on women's complex and changing relationships to the political...

... , the essay argues that the key to the Cornelian model of literary greatness is the degree to which Corneille identifies his own poetic inspiration with his tragic protagonists, and capitally with the first of them, the eponymous heroine of Médée . When set in dialogue with the ventriloquistic absence...