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...David Quint Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 David Quint is professor of English and comparative literature at Yale University. His forthcoming book is Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy . Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando...

...Roberto Cantú Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative . By Monika Kaup. New York: Lang, 2001. x + 354 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. By Wendy Wall. Cambridge...

...Rosemarie Bodenheimer The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt . By Caroline Levine. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,2003. xi + 237 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Rosemarie Bodenheimer is professor of English at Boston College...

.... MATTHEWROWLI NSON Dartmoulh College Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative. By ROD EDMOND. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. ix + 262 pp. $39.00. It has long been the practice of social historians to advert to literary texts to illustrate or indeed to “prove...

... resentment: What is it like to be born in a place and to live there more or less forever, to know that you are of it?” -Edward W. Said‘ THE DYNAMICS OF EXILE AND DESIRE: NARRATIVE FORM AND MEANING...

...David Punter Alexander Welsh. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xi + 262 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 REVIEWS Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Euidenee in England. By ALEXANDERWELSH...

... as such. And yet Jameson also supposes that modernism is no more identifiable and unitary than what succeeds it. The ideal critical and historical narrative of modernism and its sequel might well take the shape of Jameson’s last chapter: a long-drawn wavering between different cultural eras, whose...

... Blanchot. Along the Fatal Narrative Turn (Toward an Anarchic Theory of Literary History) Gerald L. Bruns Late in September 1958, in a hotel in Stockholm, I set about writing this lec- ture for delivery a week later at the Brussels Fair. I recalled a remark made...

...: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (1987) and French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture (1995). The Enlightenment of the French Eye: The Limits of Intellectual History and the Master Narrative of Vision David Carroll l~ownmst~;VYS: ‘l’hu...

... Literature (1990). Presently he is at work on a book about literature, politics, and national identity in Renaissance France. On the Border: Geography, Gender, and Narrative Form in the H@tumhn Timothy Hampton Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.-Caesar Stones...

.... Steven Dillon, Bates College Constituting A meri‘cans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. By Priscilla Wald. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. xiv + 390 pp. $56.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Deciding who is included in “We the People” has always been a vexing problem...

... and Iconography. By STEPHENG. NICHOLS,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xiv + 248 pp. $23.50. Stephen Nichols’s title promises both more and less than this ambitious study of early medieval narrative delivers. On the one hand, despite the use of thirty-five illustrations...

... come as no surprise that his new book on (;haucei-’s first five Cniifei-/jiii? Tciis a thoroughly engaging, wide-ranging, often deeply perceptive critical study which brings to bear upon Chaucer’s narrative craf’t the cultural contexts riiostly of‘ the late Middle Ages. While some...

...Robert W. Hanning Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 1 John M. Ganim. Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. ix + 177 pp. $23.00. DECIPHERING THE MIDDLE ENGLISH...

..., because it is so very well done. DAVIDBLEWETT McMaster University Swzft’s Narrative Satires: Author and Authority. By EVERETTZIMMERMAN. I thaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. 183 pp. $19.50. Everett Zimmerman’s...

... that informs the study, the reader, as Shreve, is entitled to address Shreve’s last question to the new Quentin: “Why do you hate the South?” JOHN TUCKER University of Victoria Canters and Chronicles: The Use of Narrative in the Plays...

...John E. Bassett Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 A BSA LOM, A BSALOM! THE LIMITS OF NARRATIVE FORM By JOHN E. BASSETT Critical commentary on Absalom, Absalom! (1936) falls into two major categories, one focusing...

... of decision” of his audience. The purpose of Making Tales, Don Bialostosky forthrightly an- nounces in its opening sentence, “is to guide our understanding of Words- worth’s experimental narratives in Lyrical Ballads toward a position from which they will give us a greater and a better pleasure than...

.... By LARRYSKLUTE. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984. vii + 160 pp. $22.00, cloth; $10.95, paper. Closure and inconclusiveness are significant issues for the study of Chau- cer’s works, since several of his narratives are unfinished and the endings of those he finished have proved...

...-no! a real love, a love which has flesh and blood. . . . -Ludwig Feuerbach’ CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S “TALE HALF-TOLD” THE DISRUPTION OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN JANE EYRE...