...Rebecca L. Walkowitz Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies . By Anne Ferry. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. 289 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies. By Anne Ferry...

...John Richardson Abstract In the eighteenth century Britannia became a vehicle for poets and other writers to reflect on the difficult place of the individual in the emerging public sphere. Writers of the first half of the century characteristically imagined the goddess in a domestic political...

...Sanford Pinsker Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM HASIDIC TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL ARTIST By SANFORDPINSKER Tradition has it that Sholom Aleichem gave Mendele Mocher...

...Mark D. Coburn Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 “TRAINING IS EVERYTHING” COMMUNAL OPINION AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN PUDD’NHEAD WILSON By MARKD. COBURN In A Connecticut...

...Paul H. Meyer Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN ROUSSEAU’S EMILE By PAULH. MEYER The supposed contradiction between the extreme individualism of certain of Rousseau’s writings and the collectivist and even totalitarian...

... in humanities computing. MLQ 62.3-03 Wolff 7/12/01 1:21 PM Page 239 Individuality and l’Esprit Français: On Gustave Lanson’s Pedagogy Mark Wolff oland Barthes once observed that the teaching of literary history R in the French school...

... of Individualism and the Crises in the Lives ,of Lcssing and Hamann. By F. J. SCHMITZ.Berkeley and Los Angeles : Uni- versity of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1944. Pp. 125-48. Twenty-five cents. This brief monograph attempts to compare Lessing and Hamann...

... On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Helpless” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900 . By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. The Body...

... into the feminist, Marxist, promodernist coffin. VINCENT P. PECORA University of Calijbrnia, Los Angeles Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and NovelisticForm @om Conrad to Woo& By MICHAELLEVENSON. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

...Leland Thielemann Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE PROBLEM OF UNITY AND INDIVIDUALISM IN ROMAINS’ SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY By LELANDTE-IIELEMANN I. INTRODUCTION M. Jules Romains has many times...

...I. V. Morris Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 GRILLPARZER’S INDIVIDUALITY AS A DRAMATIST By I. V. MORRIS Grillparzer, the dramatist and poet, has usually been seen in rela- tion to other poets and dramatists, and his works interpreted...

...Anthony Ossa-Richardson Abstract A decade ago Rita Felski argued that reliance on context shuts down a text’s meaning by enclosing it in a restrictive historical “box” and alienating its individuality. This essay offers a rebuttal to Felski’s critique, first by delineating the genealogy of her...

... and realism locates multiple secular meanings in specific historical events. Secular excess replaces divine plenitude. The absence of a consistent authorial voice prevents readers from determining a hierarchy of significance. Exaggerated correlations between individual lives and public events aggrandize...

... the job of a character is to individuate. The comic rather than tragic historiography of the formalist account makes it slightly preferable to the antiformalist one. The essay's archive is intended to be comprehensive and includes representative examples from poems, novels, plays, comic books, and works...

...David Gorman The fundamental structure of literary study has stayed remarkably constant during the last seventy-five years: professional teaching and research have revolved around “criticism,” or the exegesis of individual works, and every other aspect of literary study has been treated...

... expectations and desires of readers to whom the gestures were addressed. It argues that if the aristocratic airs adopted by writers situate them squarely in the Old Regime, the readerly practices to which they appealed (and which they in turn shaped)—individualized and moralized as well as commercialized—might...

... the complex experiences of Chinese women in their search for modernity. The Nora figures in Chinese problem plays are symbols of individualism and subjectivism. The women in Cao Yu's plays, whose education is informed by feminist ideas, become subjects of their desires for consumption and love. The female...

... affect, and to glorify amoral modern individualism as embodied by the perverse Salome. Some important yet little-analyzed contemporary reviews of the play and the opera in Germany and Austria from 1905 to 1907 already noted such correspondences. They interpreted Strauss's choices as direct aesthetic...

...Paul H. Fry Harold Bloom in his “anxiety of influence” phase is often thought to insist on an intertextual dynamic that is ahistorical. This view might seem to be confirmed by comparison with the text of Bloom's “strong precursor,” T. S. Eliot's “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” The reason...

...John Plotz Although naturalism shares some features with realism and others with modernism, it has properties that contrast with the realist and modernist prioritization of felt individual experience as the evidentiary matrix on which their accounts of the world are based. Naturalist fiction...