...Frederick M. Padelford By Herbert David Rix. The Pennsylvania State College Studies, No. 7, State College, Pennsylvania, 1940. Pp. 88. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice. Classicism in the Rheto...

...Eric Hayot Abstract The various pronouncements of the nation’s dissolution seem to have been premature. Literary history is still very much within the nation, especially if one considers the realm of the middle- and lowbrow, or indeed the vast swaths of genre fiction. What has changed in literary...

...Bill V. Mullen The Power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered . By Robert Shulman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 340 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture...

... absorbing book. RICHARDD. ALTICK Ohio State University Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. By KATHLEEN BLAKE.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. 216 pp. $8.75. With the clear-minded...

...Jenijoy La Belle Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THEODORE ROETHKE’S “THE LOST SON” FROM ARCHETYPES TO LITERARY HISTORY By JENIJOY LA BELLE Sooner or later in almost every lengthy study of Theodore...

... ESSAYS IN RENAISSANCE LITERARY HISTORY' By MICHAELMURRIN In their recent books John Steadman and Rosalie Colie have both tried to write a limited kind of literary history, the type that stresses criticism in the period. Neither succeeds...

...James Gindin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 TOWARD LITERARY BIOGRAPHY’ By JAMES GINDIN Within just the last decade, a proliferation of thoughtful and sensi- tive books concerning Hardy has considerably deepened the level...

... and the Literary Imagination. By LAWRENCEL. LANCER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. xiii i-300 pp. $12.50. The fundamental assumption of The Holocaust and the Literary Imagina- tion is that the destruction of the European Jews was an unprecedented act, unique in human...

... of the Imagination: Literary Essays of Harold Clarke Goddard. Edited by ELEANORGODDARD WORTHEN and MARGARETGODDARD HOLT. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1974. vi 4- 257 pp. $10.00. For a long time now it has seemed necessary for those who wish to take Roman ticism seriously...

.... That is not, however, his usual way. W. B. CARNOCHAN Stanford University Rousseau’s Socratic Aemilian Myths: A Literary Collation of “Emile” and the “Social Contraci.” By MADELEINEB. ELLIS.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977...

... to the thorough and laborious preparation which underlies Professor Beall’s study. A. T. MACALLISTER Princeton University Literary Scholarship, Its Aims and Methods. By NORMANFOER- STER,JOHN C. MCGALLIARD,RENB WELLEK,AUSTIN WARREN, and WILBURL...

...James A. Work William Robert Irwin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. ix + 156. $2.00. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 482 Reviews detail how sources were handled, what, in the light of other literary work of the age in England...

... weisen dich geheim In dich selbst zuriick. H. Hesse, “Biicher” HERMANN HESSE AS A LITERARY CRITIC* By EUGENEL...

... Buch vorgeht-es resigniert zu friih gegeniiber komplexeren, methodisch und sachlich weiterfuhrenden Fragestellungen. Dieser Anfang sollte zu ihnen ermutigen. FRITZMARTINI Stuttgart Say That We Saw Spain Die: Literary Consequences...

...Henry Kozicki Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 CRITICAL METHODS IN THE LITERARY EVALUATION OF SIR DEGARE By HENRYKOZICKI Sir Degart! (hereafter SD) was popular in its day, as the survival of six manuscripts and three...

...Lawrence Marsden Price Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 HOLLAND AS A MEDIATOR OF ENGLISH-GERMAN LITERARY INFLUENCES IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES By LAWRENCEMARSDEN PRICE The investigations...

...K. L. Goodwin Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 EZRA POUND’S INFLUENCE ON LITERARY CRITICISM By K. L. GOODWIN Although invariably mentioned in accounts of twentiethxentury lit- erary criticism, Ezra Pound is not generally...

...- tion of the name in an oblique case with a weak ending. Dyck has rendered a considerable service to baroque literary criticism. It is to be hoped that he will continue his research in this same direction and will pursue one of the lines of investigation to which he has alluded...

...Michael Murrin L. MONTGOMERY ROBERT. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1979. vii + 235 pp. $14.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS The Reader’s Eye: Studies in Didactic Literary Theory from Dante...

...Wallace Martin ALTIERI CHARLES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. viii + 344 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 404 REVIEWS Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic...