...Stephen F. Lappert Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 MALORY’S TREATMENT OF THE LEGEND OF ARTHUR’S SURVIVAL By STEPHENF. LAPPERT Although much critical analysis has focused in recent years 011...

...Frederick Morgan Padelford ANTHONY COPLEY’S A FIG FOX FORTUNE: A ROMAN CATHOLIC LEGEND OF HOLINESS* By FREDERICKMORGAN PADELFORD The imitations of the Faerie Queene were inaugurated in 15% with the publication of an audacious poem entitled A Fig...

.... VICTORE. HANZELI University of Washington The Geographical and Ethnic Names in the Pidriks Saga: A Study in Germanic Heroic Legend. By WILLIAMJ. PAFF. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, Harvard Germanic Studies, Vol. 11, 1959. Pp. vi + 238. $6.00. PiBriks saga, which is one...

.... By HELENADOLF. University Park : Pennsylvaiiia State University Press, 1960. Pp. 217. $5.00. In this iinagiiiative and challenging study, Helen Atlolf introduces her genetic approach to the Grail story with the lapidary statement: “The Grail legend is a fruit of the Crusades.” She shows how...

...Alexander M. Buchan RALEGH’S CYNTHIA-FACTS OR LEGEND By ALEXANDER34. BUCHAN Assigning a precise date to the Hatfield Cynthia does far more than satisfy the curiosity of scholars as to whether or not this was the “lamentable lay” read...

...HAAKON M. Chevalier Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ANDRE MALRAUX: THE LEGEND AND THE MAN By HAAKONM. CHEVALIER Professor W. M. Frohock’s Andrk Malraux and the Tragic Imagi- nation‘ is, as the publisher’s release announces, the first...

...Robert W. Ackerman Nathan Comfort Starr. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1954. Pp. xvii + 218. $4.50. cloth; $3.50, paper. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 REVIEWS King Arthur Today: The Arthurian Legend in English and Americair...

... the appeal of the book for the English lay reader. A. M. SAUERLANDER University of Washington The English Legend of Heinrich Hkne. By SOL LIPTZIN. New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1954. Pp. ix + 191. $3.00. In reading and reviewing...

... of Thornas Mann’s The Holy Sinncr, and it is evident from the subtitle, as well as from a special essay in the introduction, that Professor Zeydcl regards the Oedipus legend as all-important in the interpretation of both works, although neither of the original authors made refererice to Oedipus...

...Waldo H. Dunn Robert Metcalf Smith, Martha Mary Schlegel, Theodore George Ehrsam, and Louis Addison Waters. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Pp. vii + 343. $5.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 364 Reviews The Shelley Legend...

... of the philosophy of history are given neither in the text nor in the notes. P. 147: If H. Brenckman was really Dutch, he would hardly like to have his name spelled “Heinrich.” HARCOURTBROWN Brown University The Origin of the Grail Legend. By ARTHURC. L...

...Sheila Delany W. Rowe Donald. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. x + 218 pp. $22.95. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Through Nature’to Eternity: Chaucer’s “Legend of Good Women.” By DONALDW. ROWE.Lincoln...

... of as a “Dutch Black Legend”—that is, as a deliberate repetition of the Hispanophobic topoi known as the Spanish Black Legend. Only by acknowledging the intimate relationship between these two phenomena can we make sense of Hollandophobia’s peculiar features while discerning how this seventeenth-century...

... Legend. By C. GRANTLOOMIS. Cambridge : The Medieval Academy of America, 1949. Pp. vi + 250. $5.00; to members of the Academy, $4.00. Students of saints’ legends have been looking forward for some years to the appearance of Professor Loomis’ book. They have known that he was making...

...Hildegarde Drexl Hannum Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 SELF-SACRIFICE IN DOKTOR FAUSTUS THOMAS MAN”S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAUST LEGEND By HILDEGARDEDREXL HANNUM The basis...

...GEORGE E. ROWE Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 PRIVACY, VISION, AND GENDER IN SPENSER’S LEGEND OF COURTESY By GEORGEE. ROWE That the sixth book of The Faerie Queene ends in bitterness and cynicism few readers...

... stylistic criteria for determining Peele’s relationship to this play. J. LEEDSBARROLL University of Cincinnati Arthur of Albion: An Introduction to the Arthurian Literature and Legends of Englmd. By R. W. BARBER.With a foreword...

...Stanley Rypins Caroline Brady. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. Pp. x + 341. $3.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 REVIEWS The Legends of Ermanwic. By CAROLINEBRADY. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University...

... abandons Ariadne, in Chaucer’s “Legend of Ariadne,” on an isle where “dwelled creature non / Save wilde bestes, and that ful many oon” (lines 2164–65). Dido and the “false Trojan” Aeneas, when summoned by Hermia, are conjoined reminders of the kinds of treachery for which Theseus is known. Sidney’s...

.... G. M. MARTIN 585 that the continuity given to life by the growth of legend is one of the principal themes of this novel. Thus legends are one of the novel’s most important sources of unity: the keynote of the whole is the con- trast between...