...William F. Hall Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THE MEANING OF THE SACRED FOUNT “ITS OWN LITTLE LAW OF COMPOSITION’’ By WILLIAMF. HALL The psychological interpretation of The Sacred Fount is still...

... of Queens, New York, several of whose insights into the inner dynamics of Tam Lin have been incorporated into the presented essay. TAM LIN: FORM AND MEANING IN A TRADITIONAL BALLADX By JOHN D. NILES Whether or not the great...

...Bruce Johnson Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 CONRAD’S “FAX”: MANUSCRIPT AND MEANING By BRUCEJOHNSON Like The Shadow-Line, “Falk” sprang from the horror of Conrad‘s first command on the Otago in Bangkok, late January...

...James F. Knapp Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 THE MEANING OF SIR ORFEO By JAMES F. KNAPP In an article on the sources and analogues oE Sir Orfeo, J. Burke Severs calls the poem “the best of the Middle English Breton lays...

... and the like-have any relation to the text. FREDSONBOWERS University of Virginia Image and Meaning : Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance Poetry. By DON CAMERONALLEN. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1960. Pp. viii + 175...

...; they escape us as soon as we attempt to interpret or to use them in a subjectively meaningful way. (The other senses are not considered as reliable means of apperception.) Robbe-Grillet is against psychologizing, against behavioristic inter- pretation, against a vocabulary of a “caract6re...

...Leo Spitzer Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 MARVELL’S “NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN”: SOURCES VERSUS MEANING By LEOSPITZER In the considerable literature in which attempts have been...

...David C. Fowler ON THE MEANING OF PEARL, 139-40 By DAVIDC. FOWLER In the Middle English dream-vision poem, Pearl, the dreamer falls asleep and finds himself in a strange, wonderful country: crystal cliffs, silvery trees with beautiful singing birds...

... drama. L. L. BARRETT Washington and Lee University Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning. By DAVIDBEVINGTON. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. 360 pp. $1 0.00. In his opening sentence, David...

...John E. Keller REVIEWS Art and Meaning in Berceo’s “Vida de Santa Oria.” By T. ANTHONYPERRY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Romanic Studies, Second Series, No. 19, 1968. viii + 231 pp. $6.50; 58s. In this scholarly and perceptive...

...Patrick O'Flaherty DR. JOHNSON AS EQUIVOCATOR THE MEANING OF RASSELAS By PATRICKO’FLAHERTY Biographers have long recognized that the death of Sarah Johnson in January, 1759, when she was nearly ninety years of age...

... seventeenth-century poetry and, indeed, to the stiidy of lyric forin in general. 1,OUIS L. h‘fAR’1.Z Yule University BrowningS Voices in “The Ring and the Book”: A Study of Method and Meaning. By MARYROSE SULLIVAN. Toronto...

...Jerome J. McGann Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literature, Meaning, and the Discontinuity of Fact Jerome J. McGann extual studies and editing are two exemplary fields of historical Tcriticism. They are also fundamental, since all literary work...

...Roberto Schwarz © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis Roberto Schwarz Sah ein Knab’ ein Riislein stehn, Riislein auf der Heiden.-Goethe, “Heidenriislein” He is poor. . . , therefore he...

... a history of English lyrics from their beginning until today. HALDEENBRADDY Texas Western College, El Paso Elizabethan Poetry: A Study in Conventions, Meaning, and Expression. By HAUETTSMITH. Cambridge : Harvard University...

... Heinrich von Klekt: Studies in the Characjer and Meaning of His Writings. By JOHN M. ELLIS.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Ger- manic Languages and Literatures, 94, 1979. xvii + 194 pp. $13.50. In this book John M. Ellis sets out vigorously to corral...

.... PEI Haruard University LOMNY The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner’s Novels. By DONALDM. KAK- TICANER. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. xviii + 206 pp. $15.00. Literary critics seldom attend to the newness...

...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...

... of searchers for the dead during the plague of 1603 and therefore understood it to be an omen of death, but that does not exhaust its meaning in the play nor explain its effectiveness for later audiences. L. B. Campbell, assuming soundly that no amount of extra-literary annotation can tell us...

...K. A. Bruffee Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 FORM AND MEANING IN NABOKOV’S REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT AN EXAMPLE OF ELEGIAC ROMANCE By K. A. BRUFFEE The Real Lzfe ofsebastian Knight is one...