...Gregory Mechacek The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition . By Joseph Pucci. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. xxii + 263 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285...

...JUDITH SCHERER HERZ Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 MILTON AND MARVELL THE POET AS FIT READER By JUDITH SCHERERHERZ That two of the strongest, most original, and most interesting poets...

...DANIEL MELNICK Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 PROUST, MUSIC, AND THE READER By DANIELMELNICK Proust’s attempt was, as purely as possible, to embody a musical aes- thetic in A lu recherche du temps perdu, and the combination...

...John R. Knott, Jr. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 ∗ I am grateful to Wheaton College of Wheaton, Illinois, for the invitation to speak at a conference on “The Reader and Literature” (October 1982) that occasioned the lecture from which this essay developed...

...Royal A. Gettmann Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE AUTHOR AND THE PUBLISHER’S READER By ROYALA. GETTMANN In the following paper I shall state some facts and venture some generalizations about the relations between publishers and authors...

... life of Europe in the thirteenth century, and his tracts found many readers among the Germans at the time of the reform movements in the fifteenth century. The tenth century Vita B,rurtonis describes the political and ecclesiastical activity of Archbishop Bruno and seeks to justify...

...David H. Hirsch Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 AND WHAT ARE YOU, READER?l B’ B’ DAVID H. HIRSCH The humanities are in flux. Liberal democracy, on which the humanities rely for sustenance and which they in turn sustain...

...R. A. Shoaf M. Jordan Robert. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. viii + 182 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Chaucer’s Poetics and the Modern Reader. By ROBERTM. JORDAN. Berkeley: University...

...Dominick LaCapra Brombert Victor. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. 226 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 DOMINICK LACAPRA 295 The Hidden Reader: Slendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire...

...Shaun Kelley Jahshan Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Shaun Kelley Jahshan is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in the Department of Asian Languages. Her dissertation in progress explores Chinese aesthetics in the origins of the novel. Reader-Oriented Polyphony...

... Milton and the Rmolutionary Reader. By Sharon Achinstein. Literature in His- tory. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiv t 272 pp. $37.50. Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, arid Poetry in Restoration England. By Laura Lunger hoppers. Athens: University of Georgia Press...

...Michael Murrin L. MONTGOMERY ROBERT. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1979. vii + 235 pp. $14.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS The Reader’s Eye: Studies in Didactic Literary Theory from Dante...

... by its most celebrated playwright. In reality, of course, William Henry was responsible for every bit of the marginalia, which he crafted with an eye to eighteenth-century readers’ longing for a Shakespeare whose tastes complemented (and complimented) their own. “Upon the margins of this poem, I was most...

...Floyd Stovall Richard D. Mosier. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. Pp. vii + 207. $3.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 370 Reviews Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGufley Readers. By RICHARDD. MOSIER.New York...

... expectations and desires of readers to whom the gestures were addressed. It argues that if the aristocratic airs adopted by writers situate them squarely in the Old Regime, the readerly practices to which they appealed (and which they in turn shaped)—individualized and moralized as well as commercialized—might...

...Joycelyn Moody Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies . By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv + 423 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Joycelyn Moody is associate professor of English at Saint Louis...

...Stephen Hinds [email protected] The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers . By Derek Attridge . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xiii + 445 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Derek Attridge’s latest book takes...

...Nancy Glazener Robert Browning had a powerful following in the United States among readers who came of age during and after the Civil War, but caricatures of the Browning Society have obscured the terms on which he was admired. For many of those readers, a taste for Browning marked a generational...

...Jane Qian Liu Abstract Just as reading in general can have an impact on a reader’s interpretation of reality, reading translated works can open up a distinctive understanding of the world, which then leads readers to act on their newly gained sentiments and ideals. The many foreign literary works...