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... 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...

...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...

...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...

..., 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...

...). 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...

... 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 dilemma, often of intolerant-nd, above all...

...: 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...

...Sanford Budick Abstract The poetic work of “The Ruined Cottage” is carried out by acts of the “meditative mind” that Armytage identifies early in the poem (l. 81). The history of interpretation of the poem has been sorely vexed by Armytage’s closing statement, “I turned away / And walked along my...

...Floyd Stovall Richard D. Mosier. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. Pp. vii + 207. $3.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 370 Reviews Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGufley Readers. By RICHARDD. MOSIER.New York...

... into the human heart” on the part of those whom the narrator wanted to see “in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever” (Fitzgerald 2004 : 2). In Gatsby’s mind, “of course you can!” relive the past and reclaim the love that has passed you by; in Gatsby’s mind, there can be only one true love in a life...

...Walter J. Ong, S.J. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 SWIFT ON THE MIND : THE MYTH OF ASEPSIS By WALTERJ. ONG,S.J. It is with Jonathan Swift as it is with most essayists whose pro- nouncements spring from impulses more strategic than scientific...

... eighteenth century. ALAN D. MCKILLOP The Rice Institute The Mind of a Poet. A Study of Wordsworth‘s Thought with Par- ticular Ref crence to “The Prelude.” By RAYMOND DEXTER HAVENS. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xviii + 670...

...Srinivas Aravamudan Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature . By Ruth Bernard Yeazell. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. xii + 314 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies. By Anne...

... 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 engagingly modest...

... 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 Englands Heroicall...

.... 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...

...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...