...Steven Weisenburger William M. Plater The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon . Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978. xvii + 268 pp. $12.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 88 REVIEWS sistence...

... of physical strength or courage, but rather of inner development, with the strength and courage then apparently following naturally. Not enough attention, however, has been paid to one aspect of Havelok’s development: his relationship and life with Grim, the fish- erman who-according...

... heavily empha- sized ethical significance as to discourage some readers from approaching Hawthorne’s works as anything but grim moral homilies that, as he himself said, “have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade.” Bell’s Hawthorne is not much less grim than the tradition...

... shaped by an almost Hobbesian grimness about the determinative nature of both biological and social laws (the former explaining ecological change in part 1, the latter overtly shaping the events of part 2), After London is, like all of Jefferies’s work, shot through with what he calls “intermezzos...

... dilemma of modern poetry, which is simply: what is there left to do? Have the embarrassments of poetic tradition become more considerable than the opportunities afforded by it? The question was a grim one for the Augustans and the mid-cen- tury poets of Sensibility, received a defiant...

... substituted therefor, early rising, a cup of coffee, and grim determination. Novelists, he asserted, are made rather than born, and their watchword is, “It is dogged as does it.” His gift, like most gifts, was a limited one. As Bliss Perry puts it, “Dickens is forever bidding us laugh or cry...

..., characterized by a grim and ghastly humour with an insistence on the details and trappings of death,”6 the word describes The Revenger‘s Tragedy perhaps more accurately and completely than any other adjective. The first known pictorial version of the Dance of Death appeared at Paris in 1424...

... not show us the last of the sunset glow- ing on the pink and yellow house-fronts of Varenna, the lake turning from violet to purple with the approach of evening, while the grim, ash-grey heights of the Grigne merge slowly into the infinite sky. M. Jourda is right : Stendhal’s landscapes are moral...

... will give vent to as soon as he is left to himself. This ghastly grin-or laugh-appears, elsewhere in the story, on the face of Nature herself: All the day Had been a dreary one at best, and dim Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim...

..., in Professor Brady’s opinion, is the point of view of the narrating people. The Eormenric of Anglo-Saxon tradition, although “a grim king of wolfish mind” (Dew,11. 21 ff an enemy of Hama (Beowutf, 11. 1197 ff and an “evil truce breaker” (WidsiiJ, 1. 9), has become-again despite the historical...

... of Hawthorne (p. 333); and that “The Encantadas” is in part the author’s grim response to being denied a consulship (pp. 96-102). Yet such interpretive dubieties are not the primary problem with Dillingham’s book. It is his casual handling of other critics, his unwillingness to pursue...

... on in bitter floods,” he writes (1890, p. 8), “like the grim and brutal ocean under a sky covered with dark clouds, and there are days when the poor souls who have embarked on the disheartening voyage imagine that never has a ray of sun been able to break through that dreary veil”; but a few...

... was already well versed in theology when he undertook the Provinciules, and that his attack rests on a solid doctrinal unity, traditional and Augustinian. It is a grim doctrine that emerges. Man has no natural good to which he can aspire, nor any natural appetite he can safely follow...

... through in places.” His attitude toward him- self is playfully sardonic, toward his fellow mortals kind but ironic, toward destiny grim. But he will not admit himself a pessimist. Though the whole western world is going to be “blown to pieces, asphyxiated, and starved,” he insists that when...

... impressions life makes on individual consciousnesses. And now Mrs. Woolf, with her fluid patterns “of sequences rather than consequences,” has yielded place to a Midland carpenter’s granddaughter-to a woman who was not afraid to play the grim game of consequences in life and in fiction. Morally...

... was not afraid to play the grim game of consequences in life and in fiction. Morally bewildered persons are not likely to mistake the subtle and anaemic impression- ism of Bloomsbury for a pillar df fire. Of the Victorian, however, it can be ventured that “no English novelist . . . has more...

... not go astray. Sometimes, however, a cautious and weaken- ing English word has been chosen for the bold German original: sinnbegubt, “gifted with feeling” ; Rar Irdiscke, “FArth” ; dip gr-ause Lawe, “grim mask unkind” ; trotkg frpmd geawdmt, “proudly estranged” ; or in the passage : “(die...

... in this role by death in the form of a riddle, a grim parlor game or Fort-Da compulsion to be enacted over and over on the very site of its future occurrence. This teasing results in what Debra Fried has called, with Dickinson’s era chiefly in mind, “the repetitious stalling that is characteristic...