... Literature. By JOSEPH G. FUCILLA. New York: S. F. Vanni, 1941. Pp. 534. $10.00. Motif-Index of the Italian “Novella” in Prose. By D. P. ROTUNDA. Bloomington : Indiana University Publications, Folklore Series No. 2, 1942. Pp. xxxii + 216. $2.00. Professor Fucilla’s latest...

...Par Marcel Francon Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SUR UN MOTIF LITTERAIRE Par MARCELFRANCON Parmi les Dernsres chunsons de Louis Bouilhet, une pike1 retient l’attention : “L’amour noir” : Vulcain, jaloux des amours de VCnus...

...Sherwyn T. Carr THE MIDDLE ENGLISH NATIVITY CHERRY TREE THE DISSEMINATION OF A POPULAR MOTIF By SHERWYNT. CARR The fifteenth pageant of the Middle English dramatic cycle called Luclus Coventriae,’ the uridatable but certainly...

...Horst S. Daemmrich Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 FERTILITY-STERILITY: A SEQUENCE OF MOTIFS IN THOMAS MANN’S JOSEPH NOVELS By HORSTS. DAEMMRICH Ever...

... literary motifs. Featuring a moderately successful painter who produces his one truly outstanding piece, ironically, when driven to despair by a financial swindle, At His Gates was not merely Oliphant's most fully realized fictional engagement with sensational narratives of Victorian economic crises...

...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...

... a habitation of devils. Milton’s point-by-point response to the antimodel of Waller’s poem reveals specific topicality and political engagement in the motifs of Paradise Lost : in this sense, Milton is a poet of the restoration he opposes. At this point On St. James’s Park becomes of great interest...

... of complementary coupling providing a formal and thematic model for the dialectical engagements necessary for navigating social conflict. At the same time, Gaskell uses Austenian motifs to dramatize the “marriageability” of different generic frameworks during a time of regional fragmentation while also envisioning...

... realize for the first time the volume and significance of these manu- scripts. Motif and tneme, here carefully distinguished, are something like warp and woof in Meyer’s fabric. The motifs (symbols) are primary, the themes sec- ondary ; the motif is the constant, the theme the variable...

... studies is arranged in tripartite form: the first part deals with works Walter Silz appears to consider minor (Erdbeben; Bettelweib and Reiteranekdote; Amphitryout; Marionettentheater) ; there follows a long, central essay, easily the most valuable in the book, on recurrent Kleistian motifs...

... with the messenger. No direct source for Heinrich‘s drinking test has ever been found in Old French. The motif occurs in the Lui du Copo and in the first continuation of Crestien’s Percevd, but neither of these has much in common with Heinrich’s story. In the Old French the contestants drink from...

... for the first time the volume and significance of these manu- scripts. Motif and tneme, here carefully distinguished, are something like warp and woof in Meyer’s fabric. The motifs (symbols) are primary, the themes sec- ondary ; the motif is the constant, the theme the variable. The first two...

... examples of the revolt-flood sequence of thought and imagery in Coriolanus (1.i arid 111.1); there is yet a third in the same play, coming immediately after the banishment of the hero by the rebellious plebeians. It begins with (a) the motif of “order arid de- gree violated”: “There hath been...

... (Kanelangres and Blenzinbil in Tristrams saga), we find the first of several interesting combinations of motifs derived from sources other than Brother R6bert’s translation. Among the noteworthy personages who attend the tournament are King HloBvir of Spain, his faithful but elderly knight...

.... Unusually lvarm in his praise of Thomas Mann, he gives him “a secure seat with the inimortals who have struck out into new paths in literature” but he adds “very dubious is the use of leit-motifs . . . This not only tends to bore if not irritate the rcader, it limits the characters” (p. 346...

... themes in Hesse’s writings and to demonstrate their precipitation in the structure of his major novels. Boulby, by contrast, is interested in archetypal patterns, motifs, and images that recur in Hesse’s fiction. This sophisticated approach, which is critically in vogue today, has led Boulby...

... of the themes that form the threads of the poem’s weave. Cynewulf, dilating upon the curt and strictly informational Latin sentence, lists the motifs which become cen- tral to the interpretation of the narrative as a whole: love and affection, wisdom and judgment, vanity, wealth and treasures...

... of this continuum are moral insight and historical truth” (p. 72). The moral concerns of the alliterative poets often led them into didacticism. But the poets made use of the narrative form, rather than the typical sermon or religious lyric, to convey their message. Certain motifs, well known in art...

..., “Sur des variantes de Panfagruel Bull. folklorique d’lle de France, XX (1957), 1052-53; K. Kasprzyk, “Le Motif du ’Don r6cupCt-6 par I’amant’ chez Nicolas de Troyes,” Kwartalnik Neofilologicmy, V (1958), 187. 345 346 N icolas de Troyes...

....” (3) Determining “as far as possible from a study of the variant versions what details are original.” (4) Looking for a parallel or parallels in Celtic literature or tradition. (5) Sometimes it is possible to trace the history of an episode or motif from its Celtic origin to its...