..., Interpretation, and Culture: Theory of Literary Translation (in Chinese; 2004), and Cultural Exile and Homeward Journey: R. L. Stevenson and American Fiction (2005). Opening the Cultural Mind: Translation and the Modern Chinese Literary Canon Sun Yifeng ranslation has played a critical...

...Richard Block Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting . By Peter M. McIsaac. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xiii + 322 pp. University of Washington 2009 Richard Block is associate professor of Germanics at the University of...

... (2008-9). He is completing one book on Descartes and his age, another on rethinking the Renaissance as part of long continental and oceanic intercultural exchanges, and an edited collection on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes . By Braider...

...; and that is why it is inaccurate to think of Hood in terms of the familiar stereotype of the jester whose motley shrouds a breaking heart. The comic and the tragic to him were a single entity-it was the viewpoint that made the difference. With such a habit of mind, it is hard to be a mere...

...Harry Levin Angus Fletcher. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. xi + 310 pp. $37.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature. By ANGUS FLETCHER. Cambridge, Mass...

...: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility . The Mind a Department Store: Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age Gail McDonald ’ve been spending a month,” Henry James wrote to a correspondent I in 1905, “in the horrific, the unspeakable, extraordinary, yet partly interesting...

... book. She proposes that many poets are influenced, so to speak, by “an imaginary anthology” (253), which they conceive retrospec- tively to justify a new poem. The poem is made to belong to the anthology, which the poet’s mind has created to make the poem necessary, logical, nat- ural to the...

... interrelate, how each one might require al- teration to fit a more comprehensive approach. Miller succeeds in his attempt no more than his predecessors, but his failure dramatizes more clearly the difficulties involved. He has a good critical mind and makes intelligent use of recent Spenser...

.... WALTERSILZ Swarthnzore College War and the German Mind. By WILLIAMK. PFEILER.New Yorlc: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xx + 349. $3.25. In the midst of World War I1 we are beginning to realize many of our shortcomings in World War I, and particularly in the period between...

... history cannot contain Collins’s po- etic evasiveness; it reduces its subject in trying to force him to make sense. PATRICIAMEYER SPACKS Yale University The Creative Mind in Coleridge’s Poetry. By K. M. WHEELER.Cambridge: Har- vard...

...Claudia L. Johnson Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 THE “OPERATIONS OF TIME, AND THE CHANGES OF THE HUMAN MIND” JANE AUSTEN AND DR. JOHNSON AGAIN...

... OF DRAYTON’S POETICS IN ENGLANDS HEROICALL EPISTLES FROM MIRRORED IDEALS TO “THE CHAOS IN THE MIND”* By BARBARAC. EWELL Though...

...James Doolittle G. Moore W. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1969. 134 pp. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 382 REVIEWS LA Rochefoucauld: His Mind and Art. By W. G. MooOxford:At the Clarendon Press, 1969. 134 pp...

... qualifies most of the easy gen- eralizations that have been current. Perhaps the earliest popular definition of the Victorian frame of mind was the phrase that Chesterton supplied in his little book in 1912‘the age of compromise.” Houghton reveals that it was much more an age of tension and...

...S. M. Pratt Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 ANTWERP AND THE ELIZABETHAN MIND By S. M. PRATT Almost due east of London on the coast of continental Europe lies the city of Antwerp. A hub of European commerce, Antwerp was recognized by...

... University of Washington Inward Sky: Tlte Mind and Heart of Nuthaniel Hawthome. By HUBERTH. HOELTJE.Durham: Duke University Press, 1962. Pp. 579. $10.00. Students of English literature are often slightly patronizing toward “Ameri- canists” and American literature. Hubert H. Hoeltje’s...

... literature? . . . More and more plots are being written with the movies in mind . Authors are becoming canny. Why not kill three birds with one rock, they say, as they proceed to write with the serial rights, the book rights, and last but not least the movie rights in mind. —William Lord Wright, “Hints...

... from a misreading of “cicala” for “creator.” KENNETHNEILL CAMERON Indium University George Eliot: Her Mind and Her Art. By JOAN BENNETT.Cambridge: At the University Press; New York: Macmillan Company, 1948. Pp. xvi + 203. $3.00. An...

... useful instrument for study. Tasteful prose translations, as artistic and scarcely more prosaic than the poems, contribute adequately to literary appreciation. LURLINEV. SIMPSON uniwrsity of Waxhingtlm The Mind of Protcst. By F. C...