.... ROBERTDONALD SPECTOR Long Island University Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor. By CURTIS BROWN WATSON.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. Pp. xv + 471. $7.50. The thesis of this book is “that Renaissance civilization can best be under- stood...

...Curtis C. D. Vail F. O. N[olte], H. W. P[fund], and G. J. M[etcalf Lancaster, Pa.: The Lancaster Press, 1941. Pp. vii + 335. Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Curtis C. D.Vail 101 Studies in Honor of John Albreclzt Walz. Edited by F...

... Icelandic literature to American readers, as far as that can be done by translations. STEFANEINARSSON The Johns Hopkins University Slavic Studies. Sixteen Essays in Honor of George Rapall Noyes. Edited by ALEXANDERKAUN and ERNESTJ. SIMMONS.Iihaca...

...MÍĊEÁL F. Vaughan Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 INTRODUCTION STUDIES IN HONOR OF DAVID C. FOWLER BY M~CEALF. VAUGHAN This special issue of Modern Language Quarterly presents seven essays on a range...

...Hunter Kellenberger Henri Peyre. New Haven: Yale Romanic Studies, XXII, 1943. Pp. viii + 294. $2.50. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 REVIEWS Essays in Honor of Albert Feui1lerat.l Edited by HENRIPEYRE. New Haven: Yale Romanic Studies, XXII...

.... The result is a delight- ful book which every student of the eighteenth century will enjoy reading. JAMES L. CLIFFORD Lehigh University Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hardin Craig. Edited by BALDWIN MAXWELL,W. D. BRIGGS,FRANCIS R. JOHNSON...

... years ago, Studies in Rhetoric aid Public Speaking in Honor of James A. Winans. Drummond was the editor of that earlier volume dedicated to his predecessor at Cornell. The present volume, like its forebear, is a collection of sound and scholarly essays, which is not only fitting tribute...

..., Notes, and edit- ing of E. H. W. Meyerstein. EDV’ARI)G. cox Unizfersity of It ’aslaington Studies in Honor of rf. H. R. Fairchild. Edited by CHARLEST. PROCTY.Columbia : The University of Missouri Studies, Vol. XXI, KO. 1, 1946. Pp...

...Patricia Meyer Spacks Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 HONOR AND PERCEPTION IN A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS By PATRICIAMEYER SPACKS About the judgment that A Woman Killed with Kindness is incom- parably the best of Thomas...

... Shaogong. Please Don't Call Me Human ( Qianwan bie ba wo dang ren , 1989), by Wang Shuo, who was recently honored with a Chinese compilation of “research material concerning Wang Shuo” (Tianjin, 2005), is also discussed. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Chinese Postmodernist Fiction Douwe...

...Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud Abstract The magical orientalism that saturates Honoré de Balzac’s Peau de chagrin (1831), seemingly at odds with its author’s reputation for sociological realism, indicts the capitalist ambitions ushered in by France’s bourgeois July Monarchy. Balzac’s ironic orientalization...

... in a fairy-tale plot. Again, we may think of the “bed-trick” as an allegorical action in which love preserves honor, virtue triumphs over vice, feminine purity redeems masculine lust, and so on. But the background of the bed- 2 E. M. W. Tillyard, Shakespeare’s Problem Plays (London, 1957...

... transformation of society gave rise to the absolute monarchy, a protonational political framework that retained the seigniorial values of caste and honor while it abandoned feudal rela- tions of personal dependence. To ward off the new social forces, the ruling class aimed such measures...

... virtue of liberality becomes the vice of prodigality, but, instead, a great general, who is the very embodiment of the soldierly virtues of loyalty, courage, hon- esty, and humility. Above all, he represents honor, a virtue which, in its most inclusive meaning, sums up the others...

... likes to assume sometimes that love and honor are irreconcilable. He could elect to indulge in this easy source of detachment and try for intensity from a vivid dramatic charac- terization. Should he austerely invite further disadvantage by creating only anonymous characters, he might...

... to his sense of honor. Hector, the model of valor and courtesy, is contrasted with Achilles, who, moved only by personal interest, resorts to a low trick to destroy Hector. Troilus characterized his brother as having “a vice of mercy in you / Which better fits a lion than a man” (V, iii, 37...

... impact on morals and mores. To omit them is to misuse history. ROBERTDONALD SPECTOR Long Island University Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor. By CURTIS BROWN WATSON.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. Pp...

... of the great aristocrat to preserve an older identity of feudal indepen- dence and self-asserting honor—his or her “gloire”—in relation to a centralizing monarchy. This story had been defined by the terms of Corneille’s drama, whose themes, Paul Bénichou observes, both antici- pated the aristocratic...

... is shameful and unreasonable for society is honorable for the lovers; conversely, what is honorable for the lovers is shameful and unreasonable for society. Love involves a reversal of values which distinguishes the lovers from those around them. For example, Lancelot is sharply contrasted...

...Jacob Korg Royal A. Gettmann. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 285. $3.50. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 112 Reviews the ideas of honor which he treats allow us to understand “how an Elizabethan felt in the inner...