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...Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the Autonom.iSta Tradition Arcadio Diaz-Quiiiones The end of a tradition does not necessarily mean that traditional concepts have lost their power over the minds of men...

... in the book before us too small a base has been projected into too comprehensive a survey in too awkward a manner. WENDELI.V. HARRIS Pennsyluania State Uniuersity The Paradox of Gzssing. By DAVIDGRYLLS. London, Boston, Sydney: Allen 8c Unwin...

...J. Raymond Berby Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE PARADOX OF FRANCIS JEFFREY: REASON VERSUS SENSIBILITY By J. RAYMONDDERBY Jeffrey’s identifiable reviews and surviving letters reveal incon- sistencies that suggest conflict...

...Harold A. Waters © 1959 University of Washington 1959 PAUL CLAUDEL AND THE SENSORY PARADOX By HAROLDA. WATERS In the theater and poetry of Paul Claude1 there are so many state- ments and situations that seem to go against...

...Maximillian E. Novak Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 DEFOE’S SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS HOAX, PARODY, PARADOX, FICTION, IRONY, AND SATIRE By MAXIMILLIANE. NOVAK Defoe’s famous...

..., indispensabili sussidi per accostare e penetrare il corn- plesso mondo spirituale del grande maestro. E. N. GIRARDI Universitci Cattolica del S. Cuore Milano Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox. By ROSALIE L. COLIE...

... Logik, aber beide gleichzeitig erdrucken, zumal sie etwas Drittes sind, lebender Zauber oder nicht zerstorende, sondern aufbauende Zerstorung der Welt? STRUCTURES OF PARADOX IN KAFKA...

... University of California, Berkeley Vgl. hierzu: A. Wolf, “Erzahlkunst und verborgener Schriftsinn”, in: Spruchkunst, 2 (1971), 1 ff. The Age of Slug: Paradox and Ambiguity in Rabelais and Montaigne. By BARBARAC. BOWEN.Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, Illinois...

..., 1780–1830, is forth­ coming. doi 10.1215/00267929-­1382479 MLQ  December 2011 <R> Review Carafiol Review 549 Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History. By Michael...

...Stacy Burton © 2000 University of Washington 2000 04-Burton 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 519 Paradoxical Relations: Bakhtin and Modernism Stacy Burton The speaking subjects of high, proclamatory genres—of priests, prophets...

... unchanged by their movement. The protagonists of the Japanese writer Kosugi Tengai's New Year's Finery and the American Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (both 1900) show Zola's character reduced to a cluster of minimal qualities: performance, mobility, and contagion. Paradoxically, flattening the Nana...

... or interest of empire and global commerce. This essay explores how authors have used the fantasy of the eastward journey across the date line to manage the temporal deviancy bound up with the date line’s paradoxical character by domesticating it, projecting it onto vilified spaces and populations...

...Nicholas Halmi Since the beginning of its academic study around 1870, Romanticism has been defined simultaneously as a historical period (chronologically restricted) and as a stylistic type (chronologically open). This paradox, consisting in the difficulty of reconciling historical temporality...

... of cruelty and nonsense.” Paradoxically, those twin nouns—“cruelty and nonsense”—have often been used to describe her own poetry. This essay examines Smith’s allusions to Eliot, Algernon Swinburne, and John Keats and demonstrates that such “past echoes” helped her weigh the risk of dwelling on cruelty...

... confusing for most modern readers, and its paradox- ical use of the Dionysian image of “dazling darkness”2 has almost invari- ably been interpreted as a straightforward exposition of Vaughan’s own belief.3 The image appears in the poem’s final stanza, where it serves as a necessary condition...

...). As the book goes on, “paradox” is a word that Woodbridge uses with increasing frequency. It expresses her sense that something is going on below the surface of these texts, and that this something comes into being by an inherently paradoxical dialectic. She notes, for example, that the “Ren- aissance...

... works. More discrete foci for each chapter might have made the book more accessible to the nonspecialist. The study does go a long way toward illuminating things that have previously and notoriously puzzled readers of Beckett, from the paradoxical style to the seeming pessimism that pervades his works...

... as a whole is by this time fast moving into the realm of paradox, of which Colie is the reigning queen. With her read- ings of “The Garden” and “Upon Appleton House” which conclude the book, Marvell ceases to be a “conceited” poet in the Donne tradition and becomes even more paradoxical than...

... of Georgia Press, 1990. 196 pp. $30.00. Pamela Raabe begins with Augustine’s paradox, Crede ut intelligas, a paradox because the object of the search is the necessary precursor for its success. This paradox is crucial to the study which follows, for Raabe’s thesis is that faith is not only...

... of the book), alongside brief discussions of such as Thomas Arnold, Dickens, and Wilde. The title’s “paradox” (Adams’s favorite knot word) is that the rhetoric of self-control and submission always needs to be displayed; hence the “desert saint” finds surprising kin in the theatrical “dandy...