Search Results for language

... 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...

..., and periodization in medieval and early modern Spain. Intricate Alliances: Some Spanish Formulations of Language and Empire Marina Brownlee he intricate alliances of genre and history invite us to ponder cer- Ttain questions: How is the boundary between fiction and history figured by literature...

...Bruce Robbins Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture. By Aamir R. Mufti. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii + 325 pp.; Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language. By Srinivas Aravamudan. Princeton, NJ...

...Frederick A. Klemm Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 FREDERICK THE GREAT AND THE GERMAN LANGUAGE By FREDERICKA. KLEMM Frederick the Great, who was ruler of Prussia during Germany’s literary ascendancy, bears...

...Ralph C. Wood P. Hofacker Erich. St. Louis: Washington University Studies, new series, Language and Literature, No. 16, May, 1946. Pp. 125. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Curtis C. D.Ziiil 25 1 In the spirit...

...Derek van Abbé Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE FACT OR FANCY? By DEREKVAN ABBB The basis of all philological research is the dialect, the language of daily life (German...

.... By WINIFREDGREGORY GEROULD and JAMES THAYER GEROULD.Drawings by FLORENCEW. EWINC. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1948. Pp. xxv 4- 256. $5.00. Anthony Trollope, of all novelists in the English language, is certainly the one whose works most call out for some sort of guide: his...

...Tim Fulford Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 COLERIDGE, BOHME, AND THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE By TIM FULFORD In a review of The Interpretation of BeliefAnthony J. Harding criti- cizes Stephen Prickett’s statement...

... (off). BERELLANG University at Albany, SUNY Language and Symbolic Power: By PIERREBOURDIEU. Edited and introduced by JOHN B. THOMPSON.Translated by GINORAYMOND and MATTHEWADAMSON. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...

...Paul H. Fry Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Hum of Literature: Ostension in Language Paul H. Fry As an avid student of literary history, I know just how unwelcome it must be to read the opinion, in this special issue of MLQon liter- ary history...

...Denis Hollier Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 On Literature Considered as a Dead Language Denis Hollier A literature always arrives at its destination. s a working hypothesis, I’ll oppose two generic models of literary A history. According...

... story of how Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston engaged the pressures put on them by both reactionary and avant-garde white attitudes toward dialect and, more generally, toward the social impact of ideas about literary language. Whites regularly praised the vitality...

... claimed, the shape that Moser has created looks and feels right. DAVIDEGGENSCH\IL’ILER University of Southern California Language in Modern Literature: Innovation and Experiment. By JACOB KORG.Brigh- ton, Sussex: Harvester Press; New York...

...Margarita Zamora Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 LANGUAGE AND AUTHORITY IN THE COMENTARIOS REALES By MARGARITAZAMORA Victor Frank1 has pointed out that historiography is characterized by changes in the concept...

...Lawrence Willson F. GURA PHILIP. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. x + 203 pp. $17.50. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 300 REVIEWS The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New...

... conventions, recurrent “religious concerns, figurative language, and narrative imperatives” (p. 39). The “figuration” may involve biblical typology, .“tropes of self- formulation,” familiar metaphors, traditional myths: the Eden of childhood, the Fall from grace, the journey, the river, the return...

.... MARTINSTEVEKS Baruch College, City Uniuersity of New York Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language. By JANE DONAWERTH. Ut-bana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. xi + 279 pp. $16.95. Jane Donawerth’s book divides symmetrically into the conventional...

...Darrel Mansell Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 THE GHOST OF LANGUAGE IN THE TURN OF THE SCREW By DAKKELMANSELL 1 A word...

...Douglas L. Peterson Ferry Anne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. xiixii + 285 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS The “Inzuard” Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne. By ANNE...

... been arguing about whether women write differently from men, and trying to locate the precise place (theme? form? truly, the form of sentences?) where difference can be marked. The work of recent feminist theorists on the meaningful relationships of gender and genre and language...