...Charles Moorman M. Kean P. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967. x + 246 pp. $7.50. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS “The Pearl”: An Interpretation. By P. M. I(EAN. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967. x + 246 pp. $7.50...

...David C. Fowler Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ON THE MEANING OF PEARL, 139-40 By DAVIDC. FOWLER In the Middle English dream-vision poem, Pearl, the dreamer falls asleep and finds himself in a strange, wonderful country: crystal...

... of the five poems; so far are they from being suggestive of common authorship that they are suggestive of diverse authorship. Again, if we assume Purity and Patience to be by the same author (and cer- tainly in most respects they are much more like each other than either is like Pearl, Guwuin...

... of the poems but as yet no single edition of all four. (I understand that Charles Moorman is now preparing such an edition; we do have two transla- tions of the complete works, John Gardner’s Complete Works of the Ga- wain-Poet [ 19651 and Margaret Williams’s The Pearl-Poet: His Complete Works...

.... VI11. How wide they dream! The Indian Slaves That sink for Pearl through Seas profound, Would find her Tears yet deeper Waves And not of one the bottom sound. IX. 1 yet my silent Judgment...

... Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the MS. Cotton Nero A.x., A. C. Baugh writes that Gawain “is of such a different kind that if it were not found in association with the others we might well hesitate to attribute it to the same authorship, in spite of obvious...

..., in which the meaning of any single picture depends on its individual pic- torial content [in this case, one of the three Johannine temptations], its relation to the other parts of the work, and the design of its frame” (p. 139). The chapter on Pearl proposes to elucidate this highly...

..., a poem by .Juan Perez de Montalbin constructed around an elaborate comparison of a seashell with a pearl to the love within the poet’s heartJust as the pearl grows until it is fused as a single body with the shell surrounding it, so that when the shell is broken open to retrieve the pearl...

... Pearl in technical artistry. It is written in rhymed thirteen-line stanzas, and the alliteration is ornate (often five or more alliterating words to a line), with each initial consonant car- ried over two lines. Moreover, the rhymes are consonantal pararhymes, such as bry&/ho& si&/sojt...

... Democracy . New York : Crown . Parker Ben . 2016 . “ The Method Effect: Empiricism and Form in Sherlock Holmes .” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 49 , no. 3 : 449 – 66 . Pearl Judea . 2018 . The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect , with Mackenzie Dana . New York...

... of Olive Schreiner’s favorite verbs, it turns out, was internet . S. Pearl Brilmyer’s fascinating new book, The Science of Character , embeds Victorian realist fiction in a range of then-active philosophical and scientific debates that led away from a concept of character as an interiorized subjectivity...

...Floyd Gray P. M. Smith. London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1970. vii + 320 pp. $11.25. Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 186 REVIEWS bit cloying, as when we are told of “the pebbly feel” of Pearl, lines...

... that the older derivation from the Portuguese (rather than Spanish) word barroco as a jewelers’ term for the irregular, odd-shaped pearl is correct” for the French adjective baroque (115). For Wellek, this meant admitting “a confluence of these two words of different etymologies” in the development...

... of the Trewlufe (IMEV, no. 1453),4 only the latter uti- lizes a truly alliterative meter (an octave of long lines with bob and wheel). The Dispute employs incidental alliteration (somewhat akin to Pearl), adhering to a syllabic rhythm but having two or three alliterating words per line.5...

... from this mist the same radiant Yillah as before; her locks all moist, and a rose-coloured pearl on her bosorn.l6 After Yillah’s soul, “folded up in” the petals of this bud, had blos- somed forth, she was enshrined as a goddess in the “verdant glen of Ardair, far in the silent interior...

... to be no reason why we should not have detected them all at the first mo- ment” (VIII, 247). Perhaps this event is best expressed in his descrip- tion of Pearl, the very embodiment of the object upon which all eyes in the novel gaze in order to discover the “shape” of its meaning: 15 Charles Wilkins...

... (editors). The Poem of the “Pearl” Manu- script: “Pearl,” “Cleanness,” “Patience,” “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Berke- ley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, York Medieval Texts, 2nd series, 1979. 376 pp. $32.75. Bonaparte, Felicia. The Triptych and the Cross...

... is in lines 15 and 16: [a nymph1 xx X X X At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured X X X X Pearls, while on land they wither’d and adored. Here...

..., and de- mythologize any intellectual system that comes to be replaced by its semantic formulations . . .” (p. 141). The dream vision, at bottom, “is about aboutness” (p. 142). The Book of the Duchess deconstructs the discourse of sentiment. Pearl deconstructs the discourse of es- chatology...