... to the New and old Worlds” (Winter 2011), which looks at how the de Bry volumes influenced Europe's view of Asia by seeing the ancient cultures of the latter through the lens of “primitive” civilizations in the New World. The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture . By Smith...

... . A Mathematical Key to La Princesse de Clèves David L. Sedley n his classic essay “Vraisemblance et motivation” Gérard Genette I(1969) pioneered the use of Jean-­Baptiste Henry du Trousset de Valincour’s Lettres à Madame la Marquise sur la Princesse de Clèves as a source of insight into how...

... of themes and characterizing their fluidity: “. . . Homer, with his overwhelming mastery of the traditional epic stuff, enriches the course of his story now with one group of details, now with another, though each group for a given action will tend to center about certain key verses and to follow...

... thought and letters in the whole world-literary process. STUARTP. ATKINS Hantard University The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind. By DAVIDDIRINCER. New York : Philosophical Library, 1948. Pp. 607. $12.00. Linguists...

...Harry F. Robins Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 THE KEY TO A PROBLEM IN MILTON’S COMUS By HARRYF. ROBINS Among the cruces which have long puzzled admirers of Milton’s poetry is this passage from Comus: The Sea o’refraught would...

...Alexander Fischler Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 THEMATIC KEYS IN FRANCOIS MAURIAC’S THERESE DESQUEYROUX AND LE NGWD DE VIPERES By ALEXANDEKFISCHLEK Though the polemic and autobiographical writings...

.... Reflecting its author's own dilemma in the struggles of a speculating painter, the novel addressed and exploited key intertextual exchanges at the Victorian book market. University of Washington 2010 Tamara S. Wagner obtained her PhD from Cambridge University and is associate professor at Nanyang...

...” discourse. In key works shaping nineteenth-century political and psychological identifications with Africa, Black Atlantic writers erased the multistoried hybridity of a mixed Muslim, Arab, and “native” West Africa. To imagine a pan-African solidarity figured around nation building on a primitive frontier...

... to the latter at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet even after standardized tests had replaced it as a key to college admissions, Silas Marner remained in high schools to furnish an idealized image of education, in which a nonbiological parent successfully replaced unsuitable biological ones. Although...

... the expression of Spain’s substate national identities less belligerent as they advanced by other means the technocratic and timidly cosmopolitan mind-set that informed Franco’s later administrations. The present essay explores the differential and dissenting sensibilities of key authors who during the period...

... to establish coherent protocols or boundaries for the emerging discipline. This article contests that view by examining synoptically the careers of several key players in the promotion and development of university English studies: John Churton Collins, W. P. Ker, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Walter Raleigh...

... as a declaration of radical antihumanism with key implications for both Marxist and queer theory. In so doing, it proposes that Isherwood’s literary praxis of self-instrumentalization advances a definition of the human that refuses both property ownership and heterosexual monogamy. In light of this new reading...

... , 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...

... the concept of postmodernism traveled from the United States to western Europe and Russia, with key roles for American critics such as John Barth, Leslie Fiedler, Ihab Hassan, and Matei Calinescu and, in Europe, writers such as Umberto Eco and the reception of Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov...

... of the Anthropocene, on the other. It explores a series of entangled definitions of the Anglophone and the Anthropocene, including how each serves as an assessment of the uneven present, as a universalizing discourse, and as a force of temporalization. The essay contests the proposition that the key conceptual...

... poetics, and historical stylistics. It argues that while Auerbachian aesthetic historicism played a key role in relativizing standards of aesthetic judgment—and thus arguing against aesthetic universals—a newly invigorated version would conceive the history of criticism as a chronicle of different...

...Hannah Freed-Thall Abstract The rhetoric of revulsion has shaped French cultural modernity. This essay examines salient forms of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literary disgust, then turns to écœurement (heartsickness) as a contemporary case study. Écœurement is key to the work...

... the Schnitzler literature has been flourishing. The Arthur Schnitz- 344 REVIEWS ler Research Association deserves a good deal of credit for enlarging the focus from Schnitzler to the entire Viennese circle of writers of his time. Wil- liam Key’s book...

... a traditional reading of them through de- tailed and refined examinations of her language. While other critics have explored her syntax, dialogue, and vocabulary, Tave is the first to treat so fully and discriminatingly a number of recurrent key terms in her novels. Indeed, the concerns of his criticism...

... of harm becomes pronounced, a large set of soft social norms offers the best way to police daily behavior in ways that avoid becoming tinder for igniting expensive and bitter legal disputes. The purpose of enforcing key legal norms is to provide for all persons the moral space in which they can best...