... of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2001). She is writing a book on literary and philosophical imaginations of autonomy. The Monster in a Dark Room: Frankenstein, Feminism, and Philosophy Nancy Yousef t is as a giant that the creature makes his first appearance in Franken- I...

... University of California The Life and Philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder. By F.. Mc- EACHRAN.Oxford Studies in Modern Languages and Litera- ture. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Pp. 98. $2.75. The problem of Herder continues...

... why he has had to work his way through the histories of so many remote critical disputes. RICHARDI. COOK University of Washington Coleridge’s Philosophy of Literature: The Development of a Concept of Poet y, 1791-1819. By J...

...Erna Kritsch Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 SCHOPENHAUER’S PHILOSOPHY IN THE POETRY OF JOSEF WEINHEBER By ERNAKRITSCH A collection of Schopenhauer’s works, bearing many underlinings and marginal comments, was found...

...Rolf Soellner “HANG UP PHILOSOPHY !” SHAKESPEARE AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE By ROLFSOELLNER* It has long been noted, undoubtedly to the chagrin of philosophically minded lovers of Shakespeare, that the attitude toward philosophy displayed...

...- speare, both as a poet and as a man of the theater. RAYMONDJENKINS Catawba College The Instructed Vision: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origin of American Fiction. By TERENCEMARTIN. Bloomington : Indiana University...

...J. Mitchell Morsen THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CLERK OF OXENFORD By J. MITCHELLMORSE I. THESOURCE OF THE DIFFICULTY The high density of Chaucer’s characterization is subtly maintained even in the Clerk of Oxenford, whose outward appearance...

... as to necessitate some modification of what has been called characteristic of his style. CHARLESW. HOFFMANN University of California,Los Angeles Ortega y Gusset: An Outline of His Philosophy. By JosB FERRATERMou. New Haven: Yale University...

...Ernest A. Strathmann SIR WALTER RALEGH ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY By ERNESTA. STRATHMANN The sensational and frequently rehearsed charges against Sir Walter Ralegh and the scholars and men of letters associated with him may be balanced, so far as their scientific...

...Joseph B. Harrison 562 Rcvieziis Selected Letters of Ednin .4rlington Robinson. Edited by RIDGELY TORRENCE.New York : Macmillan, 1940. Pp. x+ 191. $2.50. Philosophy in thc Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson. By ESTELLE KAPLAN.New York: Columbia University...

...Leland Thielemann Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE PROBLEM OF UNITY AND INDIVIDUALISM IN ROMAINS’ SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY By LELANDTE-IIELEMANN I. INTRODUCTION M. Jules Romains has many times...

... and Philosophy. By JOHN DAVIS BUTLER.The Hague and Paris: Mouton, Studies in French Literature, XVI, 1967.236 pp. 26 guilders. Originally presented as a doctoral dissertation-“Jean MorCas and Les Stances: The Making of a Poet”-at Stanford University (1963), this is the first lengthy...

... of nineteenth-century writing, and that in doing so we shall have to modify some of the critical canons of the last thirty years.” JOSEPH E. BAKER State University of Iozua Basic Concepfs irt the Philosophy of Gottfried Keller. By HERBERTW...

... that the Faust legend can be as entertaining as ever, and that its applications are far from exhausted. CARROLLE. REED University of Washington Unity and Language: A Study in the Philosophy of Johann Georg Hamann. By JAMES C. O’FLAHERIT.Chapel...

... in The Divine Comedy, Pite is able to depict with great clarity why Dante mattered to them and why he might matter to us as readers of their work. Colendge’s Philosophy: The Logos as Unzjjing Principle. By Mary Anne Perkins. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. xii + 310 pp. $47.50. Historians of literature...

...: I S H M A IV Johrls Hopkiris University Philosophy of the Literuq Symbolic. By HAZAKI)ADAMS. Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, A Florida State University Book, 1983. xiv + 466 pp. $37.50, cloth; $17.50, paper. Our modern conception of symbol goes back ultimately...

...Jan Sjåvik Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy . By Toril Moi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi + 396 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Jan Sjåvik is professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington. His recent...

...Melvin Rader Paul Oskar Kristeller Virginia Conant. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xiv + 441. $4.50. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 230 Reviews The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino. By PAULOSKAR KRISTELLEH. Translated...

... a metaphysical statement, this temporal model of tragicomedy offers a Beckettian ethics insistent on both the resigned compassion of tragedy and comedy’s power to critique. In outlining Godot ’s tragicomic philosophy, the essay charts Beckett’s deployment of the various figures who inspire his play but also...

...Jennifer C. Nash jennifer.nash@duke.edu The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History . By Alys Eve Weinbaum . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . ix + 286 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021...