...Herbert Lindenberger Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language . By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp. University of Washington 2010 Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. His...

.... S -1- LTA K-I- <; ~1 R K A N Uniz)ersit?qf Penrisylzmiia Tennyson and Madness. By ANNC. COI,LF.I,.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 176 pp. $20.00. Tennyson’s Camelot: The “Idylls of thP King” and Its Medieval SourcPJ. By DAVIDSTAINVES. Waterloo, Ont., Canada...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad This essay connects the television series Mad Men to Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary . All are serialized narratives of capitalist globalization in which motifs of exile articulate the experience of breached sovereignty in a modern world...

...P. K. AYERS Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 PLOT, SUBPLOT, AND THE USES OF DRAMATIC DISCORD IN A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS AND A TRLCK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE By P. K. AYERS...

... to for echoes of Swift. Never- theless, canto 3 contains lines strikingly reminiscent of the “Digression on Madness,” where the lunatic is pictured as a man unwilling to “pass his Life in the common Forms” and intent on “subduing Multitudes to his own Power, his Reasons or his Visions,” and where...

...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 KING LEAR AND THE MERLIN TRADITION By ROLAND&I. SMITH It has been generally believed that the great scenes of King Lear which unfold the madness of Lear, Edgar, and the Fool sprang from...

... 1E. 1: A. Hoflfmann: Das Leben eines Kunstlers (Berlin, 1920)’ 11, 222-35. 222 PETER J. GRAVES 223 to the society in which he lives. Too many critics have simply assumed that he would eventually go mad. This may or may...

... simplicity in the matter of Sancho’s mystification about the village girls, mad doings (locuras) that go beyond the maddest that can be conceived; while the lion adventure is all through treated as his very maddest freak; one compared with which, as Sancho says, all the rest were “cakes...

...Nicholas Halmi The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism . By Adam Potkay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 304 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University...

...Charles Rzepka The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol . By Nicholas Halmi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 206 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii...

... include articles on John Keats, Theodor W. Adorno, Alfred döblin, and literary aesthetics. Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp. This superb book is a worthy successor to John T. Hamilton’s first...

...John T. Hamilton The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read. By Benjamin Bennett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York...

... will hear nothing of comfort when she learns of her son Arthur’s imprisonment, but taunts Cardinal Pan- dulph : “Preach some philosophy to make me mad” (III.iv.51). Finally, in Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato, falsely informed of his daughter’s death, rejects his brother’s attempted consolation...

..., this being granted, that all the world is melancholy, or mad, dotes, and every member of it, I have ended my task, and sufficiently illustrated that which I took upon me to demonstrate at first” (I, 137) .l To accept this statement is to acknowledge the great need for the partitions to come...

... of mad dogs, which had little basis in truth but which was engendered and promoted by exaggeration and a readiness of the people to believe the rumors they heard. Numerous pamphlets dealing with the situation had appeared, and periodicals were filled with letters from readers urg- ing...

... that that history is given as happening “autonomously and almost magically, not to say impersonally.” “‘Mad- ness,’ ‘language,’ and ‘reason he claims, “become the principal actors on the historical stage.” Interestingly enough, he bases these assertions on a generalizing passage on dissolution and decay...

...,” “recumbency,” and “dissection.” Roethke was not able to transmute his “madness” into poetry success- fully until he viewed himself as belonging to the tradition of mad poets in whom the extraordinary capacity for imaginative creation is linked with insanity.lg In “Heard in a Violent Ward” (CP,p...

..., the European-educated psychia- trist Bacamarte moves into the colonial village of Itaguai and, promising liberation, begins to lock people up in the Casa Verde in accordance with his theory of madness. Liberation movements are formed to oust the psychiatrist, but once in power they find the social...

..., and Klopstock, “this German Milton.” Croft (1751-1816) owes his own fame, whatever it may be, to “A Memoir of Dr. Young, the Poet,” contributed to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, to his Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters between Parties, whose Names would perhaps...

...; The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. In these lines all the destructive forces are reborn as tendencies vithin Yeats which might have ruined his poetry. The “parish of rich women” is the “brokers . , . roaring like beasts” in a genteel...