... cultures” divide, too often consider antithetical: creative insight and scrupulous attention to historical data. Tondre has a deep understanding of the science he treats and is comfortable with its complications and nuances, giving us an account of probability that is as rich in possibility as the novels...

..., and journalistic articles, authors and studios alike reflected on the importance of preparing fiction for adaptation. The capacity of authors to imagine the afterlives of their prose works at the moment of composition may be called the “transmedial possibility” of fiction. Transmedial possibility, the theoretical...

...John D. Kern AN UNIDENTIFIED REVIEW, POSSIBLY BY SCOTT By JOHN D. KERN On December 3, 1810, Walter Scott remarked in a letter to John Murray, the London publisher : I have sent Gifford the Petrarch but with an earnest request it may not be used without...

..., The Lucid Veil, and Victorians and Mystery . Elegy and Theory: Is Historical and Critical Knowledge Possible? W. David Shaw iterary historians tend to claim either too little knowledge of the Lpast or too much. They may write useful factual chronicles, but what they narrate...

...H. T. Webster Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF GEORGE GISSING’S WORKERS IN THE DAWN ON MAUGHAM’S OF HUMAN BONDAGE By H. T. WEBSTER Somerset Maugham has found material for two of his best novels...

...Stuart Atkins Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 A POSSIBLE DICKENS INFLUENCE IN ZOLA By STUARTATKINS The theories of French naturalism are so unlike the practices of earlier nineteenth-century literary movements that it has sometimes...

.... EDWARDB. IRVING,JR. University of Pennsylvania Chaucer and the Shape of Creation: The Aesthetic Possibilities of Inorganic Structure. By ROBERTM. JORDAN. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. xviii + 257 pp. $6.95. Since Robert Jordan’s book seeks to capture new territory...

...Esther Shephard Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 POSSIBLE SOURCES OF SOME OF WHITMAN’S IDEAS AND SYMBOLS IN HERMES MERCURIUS TRISME- GISTUS AND OTHER WORKS...

... of practical possibility where “realism” is the only mode of operation and action in history. Yet without a critique of the idea of the vitality of the state/profession and without actively seeking an ethical life on behalf of another praxis, history is constrained to participate in the violent narrative...

... readings of texts show signs of this scientific longing for material meanings in the world, a longing that art itself, especially theater, has refused to sanction. We are living, it seems, in a postmaterial world, whose very impossibility suggests infinite possibilities of meaning. © 2009 by University...

..., the ancient philosophy of apathy creates the conditions of possibility for modern romance. University of Washington 2009 Samuel Baker , associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture...

...Wang Ning Although the term world literature encompasses texts composed in multiple languages, translation makes possible a body of literature from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds that circulates in international critical discourse and is broadly recognized as world literature. Thus...

... not substantiate the claims for a close connection. The miscontextualization of Fielding illustrates a common methodological problem: presuming a context that is only one among many possibilities. We need to see Fielding as he was—a brilliant, experimental Grub Street writer who evolved independently of his...

...Eric Hayot Is it possible to come up with a better theory of the world than the ones governing contemporary debates on world literature and world-systems, to invent one more closely connected to the literary itself? This essay rethinks the relationship between “world” and literature, not to produce...

... with the influence of empowered Ophelias who illustrate a less solipsistic version of melancholy. Thus both authors criticize the inertia that gripped their male counterparts directly after the French Revolution. Staël's novel ultimately follows a tragic pattern, while Owenson's gestures toward the possibility...

..., by the end of the seventeenth century the possibilities for political freedom depended on a set of global relations that included not only the citizen and the government but also its colonies and the markets they produce. Valerie Forman is associate professor at the Gallatin School of individualized...

... different way of crafting and engaging with history, simultaneously “restoring” the past via reenactment in the present and implying the possibility of future reiterations. Lescarbot's script presents a useful case study of performance's challenges to more traditional configurations of literary and cultural...

..., and it ponders the possibility that the unforthcomingness of the past may be the fount of its deepest political (if not human) significance. The essay seeks to make the case for the writing of a history of discontinuity, the model for which is again provided by Morrison, in A Mercy , which by way of its ungenial...

... English examples, for the long-term significance of the cultural debate between Ancients and Moderns across Europe. The Moderns argued for the possibility of historical change in literary standards; the Ancients, for the putatively unchanging models of the Greek and Roman classics. Probably the most...

...Anahid Nersessian Recent calls to understand eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry as a response to deteriorating environmental conditions insist on a problematic continuity between our own time and the time of Romanticism. This essay explores the aesthetic and ethical possibilities...