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...STEPHEN A. BARNEY R. Edwards Robert. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1989. xvi + 189 pp. $32.50. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Rejlection in the Early Narratives. By ROBERTR. EDWARDS.Durham, N.C...

... relation in which any ethnographic account stands to representational accuracy and persuasive versimilitude. In Psalmanazar's case, the relation is confounded by his later repentance and confession, itself a doc- ument that makes representational claims not easily verified. Stewart next writes...

...Constance Jordan Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Household and the State: Transformations in the Representation of an Analogy from Aristotle to James I Constance Jordan 0f the many forms of analogy that characterized the culture of early...

...Sibylle Maria Fischer Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Sibylle Maria Fischer is completing her dissertation in Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Columbia University on problems of representation in Latin American and German literatures in the late...

...Jerome McGann This essay reconsiders Cooper’s work and its historical position in two salient relations: first, the Euro-American legal representations that organized the seizure and settlement of the American land from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century; second, the canonical ways...

...David Simpson David Simpson is G. B. Needham Chair and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His forthcoming book is titled Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger. Ground Zero Fiction: History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9...

..., and at the heart of the deepest anxieties of the body politic. Priscilla Wald, University of Washington New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. By Lynn A. Higgins. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. ix + 259...

...Elaine Tuttle Hansen Warren Ginsberg. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 202 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 REVIEWS The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval...

... Representation. By HAYDENWHITE. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xiii + 244 pp. $26.50 In this compilation of essays from 1979 onward, Hayden White engages four recurrent themes, though they are not set out as such: the relation- ship between history and narrative...

... makeup. Thus Clement astutely decodes both “the hysteric” and “the diva” as tropes in nine- teenth-century cultural representations for the ambivalent position ascribed to femininity. Suffering and recuperating from their pain, both types of women enact a dialectic of undoing and victory...

...David Punter Alexander Welsh. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xi + 262 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 REVIEWS Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Euidenee in England. By ALEXANDERWELSH...

... is author of The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 “Faerie Queene” (1988) and Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness (2003). The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations . By Goldberg Jonathan . New York...

... vis- ual images in Shakespeare’s theater give concrete fulfillment to Shake- speare’s verbal magic. University of Chicago DAVIDBEVINGTON Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert$ Poetry. By BAR- BAnA LEAHHARMAN. Cambridge...

...). ROBERTW. UPHAUS Michigan State University (East Lansing) I The Impossible Observer: Reawn and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979), p. 27. Representations of Revolution (I 789-1820).By RONALDPAULSON. New Haven and London: Yale...

...Simon Kemp A la recherche du temps perdu , the last great pre-Freudian novel of the mind, has attracted much attention from psychoanalytic critics since its publication. This article explores the analysis of Proust’s novel by critics, with a particular focus on the representation of the conscious...

... ceremonies. The omission of Racine’s tragic corpus is a gaping hole in Louis Marin’s discussion of the seventeenth-century theory of representation. Marin sees a perfect correlation between Pierre Corneille’s theater and the theatricality of power, conceived of as a force constructed through a dialectic...

..., not theme and representation, at the center of the historically material practices of poetry. For superversive poetics, poems are not only representations but also quite singular machines, devices for body modification. Here the verse repertoire of Robert Browning’s Fifine at the Fair , in particular its...