...Vin Nardizzi [email protected] The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton . By Steven Swarbrick . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2023 . 336 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 The Environmental Unconscious...

... will have to learn from and contend with. RICHARDBRODHEAD Yale University Wmkings of the Spirit: The Poetics of AfirD-AmericanWomen’s Writing. By HOUSTON A. BAKER,JR. Phototext by ELIZABETHALEXANDER and PAWCIA REDMOND. Chicago...

...Timothy Materer Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics . By Marjorie Perloff. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. ix + 222 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Timothy Materer is professor of English at the University of Missouri. His most recent book is James Merrill's...

... of the totally cleared stage as to make such a distinction? I doubt it. The enlightenment Hirsh offers, then, is occasional rather than systematic. SUSANSNYDER Swarthmore College Poetics of the Holy: A Reading of “Paradise Lost...

...Christopher Braider [email protected] The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics . By Jessie Hock . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 234 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The Erotics...

...Simon Jarvis Abstract A superversive line is that line in a given poem which most eminently exploits the play between syntactic and metrical segmentation, between an ordinary and a special phonology; which peculiarizes verse as verse. A superversive poetics places composition and technique...

... assumed the power he did in Eliot's thinking because he addressed many of the concerns Eliot had begun to develop from symbolist poetics, particularly its critiques of empiricism and its engagement in the infinite ironies involving the status of subjectivity. Bradley also transformed these concerns...

... understanding of-Chaucer. ELAINETv ITLE HANSEN Hami 1to n College Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. By BARBARAKIEFEK LEWAISKI.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiv + 536 pp. $27.50. Karely...

...” is not “the enter- taining formulation of a German scholar” (p. 237, n. 9) but of Ficino himself at the close of the proem to his translation of the Enneads. M. J. B. ALLEN University of California, Los Angeles The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics...

... it its deeply purposeful argument. Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Styk By Jerome McGann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x + 217 pp. $35.00. In this important book, Jerome McGann sets out...

.... 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...

...Marijeta Bozovic Abstract The newest Russian poetic avant-garde wields highly aware appropriations and remediations in stark opposition to mainstream cultural phenomena, including nostalgia for the imperial and militant aestheticized politics of the Soviet Union. Efforts to think leftward beyond...

... 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...

... is especially interesting, as are the periodic considerations of spectatorship. The book as a whole renews one’s high regard for the poetic achievements of the authors it studies. No matter how well we have demystified the figure of the neoclassical “genius,” it is hard not to admire the ingenuity...

... to an understanding of theater semiotics which will be of interest to anyone committed to a knowledge of theater. BRIANH. FINNEY University of Southern California Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics. By Carolyn Dinshaw. Madison, Wisconsin: The University...

...Linda Orr Philippe Carrard. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 256 pp. $32.95. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Poetics of the NmHistory: French Histmkal Discourseclc/om Braudel to Chartiex By Philippe Carrard. Baltimore, Md.: Johns...

...Daniel Javitch © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Daniel Javitch is professor of comparative literature at New York University. He is author of Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of“Orlando Furioso” (1991). A collection of essays on Ariosto's poem is in progress. The Poetics...

... 1 Ed. Thomas 0. Sloan and Raymond B. Waddington (Berkeley: University of Califor- nia Press, 1974), pp. 73-95. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama. By COBURNFREER. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. xxiv + 256 pp. $22.50. This book is an extended argument which...

... 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...