...John Lancaster Riordan Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ADDITIONAL NOTES TO A SPRUCH OF DER MARNER By JOHN LANCASTERRIORDAN The most versatile and prolific of the Middle High German Spruchdichter is the Swabian poet known as “Der Marner.”l...

...John Lancaster Riordan Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE MARNER’S “TAGELIEDER” By JOHNLANCASTER RIORDAN Several years ago my study entitled “Additional Notes to a Spmch of Der Martier”’ presented...

...John Lancaster Riordan Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 MORE NOTES TO MARNER’S “MINNELIEDER” By JOHN LANCASTERRIORDAN This article presents a continuation of Philipp Strauch’s scolk to the Marner’s songs which he noted in his own...

...Andrew Elfenbein George Eliot’s novella Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe was central to the high school English curriculum in the United States for much of the twentieth century. Its status had risen during a period of cooperation between high schools and colleges about standards for admission...

... evolves and continues from festival to festival. The predilection of the author for folk-festivals is evident throughout her works, beginning with Donnithorn’s festival in Adam Bede, a similar feast in Silas Marner, the various tavern scenes in Janet’s Repentance and later novels, notably...

... and, for some, unloved centrality of Silas Marner in American classrooms in Robson On Difficulty 321 the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here again, though, there are divergences. Elfenbein looks at a prose text; at protocols of discussion and analysis that were...

.... The abundance, power, and humor of the somewhat faulty early novels, Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss, are constricted in the pleasing legendry of Silas Marner and are almost extinguished under the weight-the laboriousness-of Romolu. After she had schematized Felix Holt but before she lost...

...-cannot? And if the novel should be read allegorically, then why has it not been compared to Silas Marner, the Eliot work that most read- ers would easily accept in that light? One strongly wishes not to editorialize in these ways, but the impulse is virtually unavoidable when the reader...

... (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Silas Marner (1861). 15  Thus “the true artist” creates “according to the inner laws by which the world and himself are governed the vehicle is not more a part of his creation than the Dale Green and the Modern Novel...

... scope. Because it attempts to in- clude more, Middlemarch, though inferior to Silas Marner in artistic per- fection, is one of the most interesting of English novels.22 When Woolf calls Middlemarch “mature” in the Common Reader essay, she means...