...Thornton H. Parsons Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 RANSOM AND THE POETICS OF MONASTIC ECSTASY By THORNTONH. PARSONS It seems inappropriate and misleading to speak of Ransom’s love poems...

...Robert J. Clements Grahame Castor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964. 208 pp. $5.50. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 REVIEWS Ple‘iade Poetics: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Thought and Terminology. By GRAHAMECASTOR. New York...

... Poetics (2011). Reviews Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel. By Srinivas Aravamudan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv + 342 pp. Srinivas Aravamudan’s third book parts ways with Edward W. Said’s classic study. Studying the century that precedes...

...) is part of a trilogy of works about gender and poetics. She is professor emerita at Temple University. Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics . By Reed Brian M. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xix + 222 pp. © 2015 by University of Washington 2015...

... the assumption that lyric is a genre and instead considers it a mode—see Culler 2015 and Von Hallberg 2008 , as well as Johnson’s ( 1982 ) older but still-important book The Idea of Lyric . References Aristotle . 1995 . Poetics , edited and translated by Halliwell Stephen . Cambridge, MA...

...Naomi Levine Abstract Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s imperfect rhymes, criticized since the nineteenth century, strangely resemble her blank verse. This essay argues that her experiments in poetic form should be viewed in relation to her reading and writing of literary history, particularly her...

...Eric Weiskott Abstract Since the sixteenth century, the history of English poetics has had two sides: a history of theory and a history of practice. Contemporary literary scholars are mapping new connections between the history of theory and the history of practice, under the rubric of “historical...

..., by an extensive cultural apparatus, Miller’s interests are primarily literary historical. In fact, a more accurate subtitle might replace the term poetics , which presumes a transhistorical mode of inquiry, with the term literary history . Miller’s book seems anything but transhistorical, following a familiar...

... with the ancient public sphere proceeds from their common origin in the historically continuous intellectual tradition of European rhetoric. Ancient rhetoric, which also constituted the ancient public sphere, entered into ancient, medieval, and Renaissance rhetorical poetics; this last, transformed...

.... But this is a relatively minor criticism. Her thesis is convincing, is argued clearly and gracefully, and is a valuable addition to Howells studies. ALLENF. STEIN North Carolina State University Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense...

... discussions not only of Pater, Hopkins, Proust, and James, but also of other writers who have taken seriously the idea that ut architecturu poesis. HUGHWITEMEYER University of New Mexico Yeats: The Poetics of the Self. By DAVIDLYNCH. Chicago...

... in the Winter 2005 issue of Screen . Body, Earth, and Migration: The Poetics of Suffering in Zhang Wei’s September Fable Jian Xu he plea for “pure literature” (chun wenxue) on China’s literary scene Tin the 1990s must have sounded strange in an era of cultural stud- ies...

...Katharine Eisaman Maus The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England . By Douglas Trevor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 252 pp. University of Washington 2007 Katharine Eisaman Maus is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia...

...Noah Heringman heringmann@missouri.edu Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics . By Menely Tobias . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . vii + 269 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 In Climate and the Making...

...Hassan Melehy The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature . By Hui Andrew . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . x + 282 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 This is a deeply comparative study. It tunnels through the European Renaissance...

...Eric Keenaghan The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Heuving Jeanne . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2016 . xv + 217 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 “I dread falling in love,” Robert Duncan ( 2014 : 60) wrote in his 1961...

...Andrea Frisch Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine . By Bilis Hélène . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2016 . xx + 258 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Theatrical tragedy has long served...

...Norman Finkelstein Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital . By Paul Jaussen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . vii + 226 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Paul Jaussen’s ambitious Writing in Real Time , ranging...

...Nicholas Halmi The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism . By Jonathan Sachs . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xiv + 226 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Although the historian Reinhart Koselleck’s best-known collection of essays...

.... The syllogism is connected to early modern art forms that Enlightenment critics considered excessively complicated or absurdly confusing. Focusing on the emergence of baroque logic in Neo-Latin rhetoric and English poetics, this article traces the development of increasingly outlandish rhetorical practices...