..., and her project Lessons from the Past: The History of Academic English , with Jennifer McDonell, has come to the end of the beginning. Jennifer McDonell is senior lecturer in English in the School of Arts at the University of New England (Australia). She has published on the work of both...

... charming than alarming. Inevitably, interrogations led to lessons in sociability and wit to derail some missions promoted by private and public Cold Warriors. Ethical quandaries would soon turn new North American lovers of Latin America toward ironies related to the metaphor of cannibalism that Brazil’s...

...Alexander Mazzaferro [email protected] Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas . By Kirsten Silva Gruesz . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2022 . 326 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University...

...Lynn Keller Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 LESSONS FROM WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ROBERT CREELEY’S EARLY POETRY By LYNNKELLER Like many artists coming of age during the “global nightmare” of World War 11, Robert Creeley...

... © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Erratum for Leigh Dale and Jennifer McDonell, “Lessons from the Past MLQ 75 (2014): 119–27. On page 124, the last two sentences of the full paragraph should read as follows: “Almost twenty years after Cultural Capital,” Rachel Sagner Buurma...

... of those conventionally ascribed to him: the staging of the martyr drama’s soteriological lesson or, in more secular wise, a baroque celebration of theater’s demiurgical powers of illusion. Rotrou reflects instead on the motives behind period reluctance to stage tragedies that draw on recent events...

... cachCe” (I, 315). “La verite” is a quintessence which abstractors may assay all they want, but its essential property is its inexhaustibility. Thus in chapter 18 Rabelais has set up the rationale for the Thau- maste episode. In chapters 19 and 20 the idea and the lesson are illustrated...

... into the prosaic world of animal impulse, the fable indulges in an exaggerated blend of fictionality and seriousness. Unabashedly fabulous, it elicits lessons from a natural world anthropomorphized into an arena of rhetorical and political strife. The fable occupies an uncertain place in the literary...

... By this example for to eschew ’I’he wey of vyce and favour ~ertue.~ ( I I. 888-94) Not only does Fulgens and Lucres illustrate its lesson about true no- bility through the perfect images of virtue that are proper to poesy’s golden world; the dramatic...

... as one tries to get a grounding in Swahili before venturing into East Afr‘ica. A primer lesson in this language might include this example: Ficino constructed a metaphysic to reconcile faith with reason and with passion; Spenser assembles stilts for what are at heart very...

... college. In 1786 he went to Florence with some Englishmen to whom he was giving lessons. Afterwards, before he left Italy, he was for a short time private sec- retary to the new British ambassador, Lord Harvey, but he appears not to have held this post for very long, and then, through the good...

... inspirational life lessons—like the epiphanic visions that ensure Stephen Dedalus’s internal growth and save him from an alienating future in the Catholic Church. In theory, Stephen might have received his insights from the more propositional advice in Smiles or Bennett. In practice, art-religious modernist...

... by James F. English and Ted Underwood 2015 Inevitability . Edited by Ryan Vu and Sharif Youssef 2014 Lessons from the Past: The History of Academic English . Edited by Leigh Dale, Jennifer McDonell, and Marshall Brown 2013 What Counts as World Literature? Edited by Caroline Levine and B...

... in which the literature lesson in British and 322 MLQ June 2014 American elementary schools consisted exclusively of memorizing MLQ  December 2011 and reciting poetry, difficulty was also undeniably present, but it took...

... in his handling of the excessively sober lesson in the con- trol of the passions Musidorus delivers to Pyrocles, followed by Pyro- cles’ long account of his falling in love, an account always hovering on the edge of bathos. There is also that kind of wit that informs Sid- ney’s mastery...

... sleep” (“Rules and Lessons,” 436). The succession of busy days and pious nights builds up to a life of Christian effort; and when the great night of death overtakes the soul, the dawn of heavenly light will immediately follow . In this manner the working hours of light in a single day come...

... marked books that invite empathy and that can turn out to be translations or imitations of the real thing, as Henry Louis Gates,Jr., shows in “‘Authenticity,’or the Lesson of Lit- tle Tree.” His critique hovers around the always suspect claim of authenticity, since imitations are often...

... and justified modernity. The cost of Hevia’s approach appeared in the result, the parallel and indifferent subsistence of two cultural realities. In Hevia’s subsequent work this absence of impact comes to look like the one desirable outcome. In English Lessons ambassadorial...

... Romani, one hour on Poetae Graeci, and one hour on Horace’s Satires. The assignment for each lesson was thirty-five or forty lines, except in Horace, in which the assignment was generally sixty lines. Seven hours a week were devoted to review. Apparently the students had to recite and construe...

... it, retold it for children, used it for polemic, reduced it to moral lessons. She calls the book a “history of Spenser’s readers” (6), who differ greatly in their motives for reading and their attitudes toward the poem, but she argues that even its most wayward critics respond to impulses in the text. While...