...Elisa Tamarkin One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic . By Martha Banta. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xxx + 306 pp. University of Washington 2009 Elisa Tamarkin is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She...

... of the Ancient Mariner,” as well as other literary texts, to transform the failure of his quest for a transantarctic crossing into a glorious triumph. Shackleton's allusions and structural borrowings substitute the truth of literature for the reality of the polar experience. While this substitution is typical...

.... LOUISB. WRIGHT The Huntington Library The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. By MONTAGUE SUMMERS.London: The Fortune Press; New York: Colum- bit University Press, 1938. Pp. 443. $7.50. A Gothic BibEiography. By MONTAGUESUMMERS. London : The Fortune Press ; New...

...?’ “FREE AND EASY”? SPONTANEITY AND THE QUEST FOR MATURITY IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN2 By R. J. FERTEL At the heart of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn con- tradictory assessments of spontaneity’s...

...Janet Jesmok Ness Ihle Sandra. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xii + 199 pp. $22.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 REVIEWS Malory’s Grail Quest: Inuention and Adaptation in Medieual Prose Romance. By SANDRANESS IHLE...

...Albert B. Smith Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 GAUTIER’S MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS By ALBERTB. SMITH Attempts to achieve...

...Nancy Topping Bazin Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 VIRGINIA WOOLF’S QUEST FOR EQUILIBRIUM By NANCYTOPPING BAZIN Virginia Woolf would agree with D. H. Lawrence that human beings have two ways of knowing, “knowing in terms...

...Van Akin Burd Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 RUSKIN’S QUEST FOR A THEORY OF IMAGINATION By V-4N AKIN BURD Ruskin’s plan to work out Turner’s theory of beauty for the second volume of Modern Painters failed to materialize as quickly as he had...

...Lawrence M. Price Heinrich Schneider. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1947. Pp. 178. $2.50. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Lawrence M. Price 99 Quest for Mysteries: The Masonic Background for Literature i?t...

... son of the murdered king is limited in his freedom to maneuver and whose quest for freedom is both fueled and stymied by the Ghost's command that he kill his uncle. Hamlet dramatizes the felt connections between external constraints on freedom of action and internal states that inhibit or foster...

... was positively invested in a poetic praxis of skeptical ignorance derived from David Hume and that this praxis allowed him to vacate the question of the way things really are. Eschewing the masculinist quest to penetrate the secrets of the natural world, this skeptical praxis offers a quiet solution to the mind...

...Anthony Cuda Abstract Despite a wealth of new primary-source publications and archival discoveries, many scholars persist in the belief that midcentury poets like Randall Jarrell rejected their modernist predecessors in a quest for originality and novelty. This article demonstrates, on the contrary...

...- that is, if it made it over into a figure for anticipation of the aca- demic zeitgeist of the late seventies and early eighties’-then romantic New Historicism has embarked on a quest to historicize the very impe- tus of irony.* Imagination, be&$ and any number of other heuristic terms are being...

... Stegner describes it, “a book . . . about the process of preparing to write a book.” As such, the novel turns out to be, Stegner feels, a “quest leading to ambiguity rather than truth? Certainly the narrator seems highly unreliable, and certainly Nabokov sets out to make us identify...

... initials (p. 108) are incorrect. But on the whole, the book presents a mass of obscure and unknown material with clarity and understanding. LOUISB. WRIGHT The Huntington Library The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. By MONTAGUE...

... of detection and a quest for self-knowledge. The title itself points in both these directions, and the clues that are accumu- lated as the novel progresses lead us toward the identity, not of a murderer exactly, but of a man who, Narcissus-like, has died of self- awareness. They likewise lead us...

... of Melville and Hawthorne, New England Quarterly, IX (June, 1936) , 255. This contains a suggestive analysis of the “quest” in Mardi that approximates most nearly the interpretation presented here, although it has not benefited from the identifications of the flower symbolism. 8 Ralph...

... and subsequent editions, data about dramatizations, translations, etc. The “Index of Authors” gives the dates of birth and death, chronological lists of titles, and, in cases deemed impor- tant, additional information. The Bibliography is at once more than a bibliography for the Quest, and less...

...; they behaved properly in order to discourage attention, to pass almost unnoticed” (Aries, HPL, 3:4-5; my italics).8 In the sixth book of TheFaen’e Queene this double function seems to underlie the ambiguously public-yet-private nature of Calidore’s quest. That Calidore’s...

... to regard science and literature, not in terms of “influence,” but in their “physiogno- mic identity” as two aspects of Germany’s cultural life at the turn of the 18th/19th centuries. The quest of this age for a “new Lucretius,” i.e., a new under- standing of the nature of things...