... to language inspired, ultimately, by Goethean science. This article argues that Jolles’s study should also be recognized as an important early work of media theory. Simple Forms includes a striking number of examples drawn from the mass-market newspapers of Jolles’s day. In turning to mass media, Jolles...

... important a link between the two countries. HELENA. KAUFMAN University of Washington The Art of Discrimination: Thornson’s The Seasons and the Language of Criticism. By RALPHCOHEN. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California...

... University of Cincinnati Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy. By JONAS A. BARISH.Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 335. $5.00. Jonas A. Barish’s book has usefulness beyond the field of Jonson studies. It defines a mode of which Jonson was unquestionably...

...Donald G. Daviau Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 LANGUAGE AND MORALITY IN KARL KRAUS’S DIE LETZTEN TAGE DER MENSCHHEIT By DONALDG. DAVIAU Concern for language stands as the central issue of all Karl...

...Glauco Cambon Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 DANTE’S FRANCESCA AND THE TACTICS OF LANGUAGE By GLAUCOCAMBON Since writing this essay in its original form, I have read Renato Poggioli’s PMLA article1 which...

...Laurence W. Cor Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 RHYTHMIC LANGUAGE IN THE THEATER By LAURENCEW. COR Several contemporary French critics and theorists maintain that the dialogue of a play should be endowed with a certain rhythmic...

...John Wilcox William Elton. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954. Pp. vi + 186. $4.75. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 REVIEWS Aesthetics and Language. Edited with an Introduction by WILLIAMELTON. New York: Philosophical Library...

... by Grosch and Statkus, who replaced Tieck’s dated satirical allusions with contemporaneous ones. EDWINH. ZEYDEL University of ‘Cincinnati Language and Literature of the Anglo-Saxon Nations as Presented in German Doctoral Dissertations...

...David C. Fowler Richard Foster Jones. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1953. Pp. xiv + 340. $5.00. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 The Triumph of the English Language: A Slcrvev of Opirtions Coirccrning the Vcn~caculurfmm the Introdu‘.fion of Printrit.q...

...Herbert Blau Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 LANGUAGE AND STRUCTURE IN POETIC DRAMA By HERBERTBLAU Language is the highest individuation of the drama. Plot is formal cause, the characters or agents are manifestations of that cause...

... in the Web: Actim and Language in “Othello.” By ROBERTB. HEILMAN. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956. Pp. 298. $5.00. The author prefaces his book with the modest statement: “This is one man’s reading of Othello.” The best passages are those which express the personal insight...

...Gerald L. Bruns This essay attempts to situate Samuel Beckett’s fiction in the Parisian intellectual and literary milieu of Maurice Blanchot, particularly with respect to the experience of the materiality of language and the double bind of writing in which—as Blanchot wrote in Faux pas (1943...

...: A Legend and Its Legacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). Modern Language Quarterly 69:4 (December 2008) © 2008 by University of Washington 558 MLQ December 2008 monologues in which Shakespeare acknowledges Shylock’s darkness as his own. Set...

...Allen F. Stein Nettels Elsa. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. xi + 236 pp. $23.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 80 REVIEWS Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells’s America. By ELSANETTELS. Lex...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman saltzman@uchicago.edu Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England . By Mary Kate Hurley . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2021 . xii + 212 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Translation entails...

... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...

...Esei Murakishi Abstract In A Dialogue concerning Heresies (1529) and The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer (1532–33), Thomas More proffers an account of natural language: the writing, speaking collectivity determines the meanings of words, and words picture the contents of the individual...

... students was misleading or even futile from the linguist’s point of view, whereas, as a matter of fact, one can come as close to an understanding of the actual language of the MS from Sievers’ as from Selmer’s text. If a text is designed to be read it should really be edited, in the sense in which...

... konnen. Es sol1 sich ja nicht wiederholen, was mit dem Mittelhoch- deutschen geschah, dessen Grammatik festgesetzt wurde, bevor man die Texte wirklich so las, wie sie geschrieben waren. ARNO SCHIROKAUER Yale University Foundations of Language. By LOUIS...

...Michael B. Prince mprince@bu.edu Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment . By James Noggle . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xi + 266 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Affect theory is all the rage of late. James...