... from English, a version of Sheridan’s Thp Rivals, did Tieck turn to a work nearer both in time and spirit to his own age; hence, it is the more surprising to find that this has lain almost completely neglected for over a hundred years and is today still unpublished. The manuscript...

...Sailendra Kumar Sen Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 SHERIDAN’S LITERARY DEBT THE RIVALS AND HUMPHRY CLINKER By SAILENDRAKUMAR SEN Sheridan’s critics have been very unkind to him. We hope we will not be accused...

...James Nohrnberg Abstract Milton’s thinking and oeuvre divide historical time and place the poet and his subjects on the verges of periodizing metamorphoses: different eras of epistemology, religious dispensations, archaeologies of knowledge, kinds of global consciousness, rival explanations...

... between Proust’s and Freud’s understandings of consciousness and to measure them against the rival philosophical and psychological theories developed during the twentieth century. The current pluralism in the humanities’ approach to analyzing representations of the mind allows the literary author’s...

... that your Honour had already inlisted five disbanded chairmen, seven minority waiters, and thirteen billiard markers (The Rivals, 11, i). Those editors of The Rivals who annotate Fag’s reply explain it by quoting the OED on the term “minority waiters” : Meaning obscure; by some explained...

... to them depend in part-I should say in large part-on their structure. &line to The Rivals, for in- stance, depends on Sheridan’s having carefully created a series of analogues in which each major character except for Julia is his or her own adversary (or “rival” as blocking character) and each...

... REVIEWS plexity (or lack of it), one’s spontaneous reactions to them depend in part-I should say in large part-on their structure. &line to The Rivals, for in- stance, depends on Sheridan’s having carefully created a series of analogues in which each major character except for Julia is his...

... MLQ ❙ March 2000 prominent position—as a change in how we look at all of literary his- tory: canonical and noncanonical: together.1 To do so, I focus on what I call rivals: contemporaries who write more or less like canonical...

..., and Shakespeare’s Henry V just fourteen.3 Interestingly, the strongest military heroic competitor to Tamerlane during these years was a seventeenth-century Alexander play, Nathaniel Lee’s Rival Queens, the fourth most frequently performed tragedy at Covent Gar- den between 1747 and 1776 (Avery et al., vol. 4...

... announced himself as a “rival” on that first meeting with Mrs. Thrale, in 1768, when he impulsively “leaped” into her coach to snatch an introduction. While Mrs. Thrale came to recognize the charm of his good nature and high spirits, his designs on Johnson left her unmoved. To make matters...

... in a kind of warfare: “dans l’alternative d’une haine Cternelle ou d’une excessive indulgence, votre bonheur veut que ma bontC l’ernporte’’ (p. 13). It is true that in this war Valmont and la Merteuil see each other as allies rather than rivals. Indeed, the novel opens with a request...

... to give the pride of place to Jonson alone, his discourse on Jonson’s classicism, on his pattern of 10 David Kramer treats Dryden’s poetics of appropriation in relation to rival French dramatists, especially Corneille, in “OnelyVictory in Him: The Imperial Dry- den,” in Literary...

... Uni- versity Press, 1991. xiv + 208 pp. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper. To the admiration and dismay of his colleagues and rivals, Jerome McGann has been rolling out about a book a year on textual theory over the past decade, along with massive editions of Byron and commentaries on Swin...

.... The text takes keener interest in the Frankish rivals of Charles than in his Saracen foes. (The grotesque caricature of the Saracens betokens the poem’s direct, total rejection of the cultural Other-an ethos that Haidu lucidly sets in ethical as well as historical perspective.) The trial...

... commitment to “form as process, dynamic and evolving” (184). The book begins by juxtaposing “The Form of Man” and “The Form of the Novel,” diagnosing a long-running bifurcation between two “rival tendencies” in both “human nature” and the “natural history of the human” (38). One is empiricist, organicist...

... of the rival claims of male and female. Indeed, Grylls gives scant attention throughout his whole study to the long- enduring schism between work and moneyed leisure in much of Gissing’s fiction. In a four-sentence dismissal of this question, Grylls describes the sweet escape from work as a sort...

.... Batres Jiiuregui, never tiring of inveighing against the great MontaiiCs, has this to say about his rival’s ability to judge and to write poetry : No basta ser hombre muy leido, versado hasta lo sumo en la his- toria, verdadera o convencional, de todos 10s santos padres, para juz- gar...

... both sides of the case. Rival opinions, even when they seem plausible, are seldom mentioned. A number of times he uses the expression “scholars agree,” by which he actually means no more than that “some scholars agree,” but which carries the implication that most of them do. He speaks...

.... In this essay I want to consider some of the implications of this new invention for literary representation. Diplomacy is the practice of using language to mediate encounters with rivals, enemies, neighbors, and strangers. It is one kind of political response to alterity. Moreover, it constitutes a form...

... the only dramatists he condemned-de Pure, Quinault, Boursault-were patrons of the rival company. Whenever he wished to allude to the theater in the sixties, Moli6re’s interests, to which he had attached his own, came to his mind. It was only after Moliltre’s death and when his own fame had...