... and Early Modern Studies , and New Medieval Literatures . She is currently working on late medieval saints' legends, with an emphasis on questions of gender and national identity. Almoravides at Thebes: Islam and European Identity in the Roman de Thèb es Catherine Sanok H istoriography...

.... C. A. MOORE University of Minnesota Wordsworth‘s Reading of Roman Prose. By JANE WORTHINGTON. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1946. Pp. 84. $2.50. It is now nearly forty years since Professor Lane Cooper empha- sized how much Wordsworth’s reading supplemented his imaginative...

.... IRONY AND AUTHORITY THE ENDING OF THE ROMAN DE LA ROSEX By MICHAELD. CHERNISS Readers of the Roman cle la Rose have only in recent years begun to appreciate the extent and sophistication of its irony. This irony per- vades not only Jean de...

...Frederick Morgan Padelford ANTHONY COPLEY’S A FIG FOX FORTUNE: A ROMAN CATHOLIC LEGEND OF HOLINESS* By FREDERICKMORGAN PADELFORD The imitations of the Faerie Queene were inaugurated in 15% with the publication of an audacious poem entitled A Fig...

.... CHARLESFEIDELSON, JR. Yale University De F. T. Graindorge a A. 0. Barnabooth: Les Types ame‘ricains dans le Roman et le The‘dtre fran~ais(1861-1917). By SIMONJEUNE. Paris: Librairie Marcel Didier, 1963. xi + 522 pp. Simon Jeune begins the bibliographical section of his book...

...,Berkeley Shakespeare’s Roman Plays: The Function of Imagery in the Drama. By MAURICECHARNEY. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1961. Pp. 250. $4.75. This volume is an intensive study of the imagery of Julius Caesar, Antorty aid Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. The author...

... become a valuable contri- bution to the study of the German mind in the last four decades, leaves his many questions unanswered. ARPADSTEINER Hunter College The Medieval Ft.t.ii~h“Roman d’Alexandre.” By E. C. ARMSTRONG and ALFREDFOULET. Vol...

...Janet Marion Martin Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 CICERO’S JOKES AT THE COURT OF HENRY I1 OF ENGLAND ROMAN HUMOR AND THE PRINCELY IDEAL By JANET MARION MARTIN The Saturnalia, by the fifth-century Roman...

...Brents Stirling James Emerson Phillips, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. Pp. 230. $2.75. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 144 Reviews The State in Shakespeare’s Greek and Roman Plays. By JAMES EMERSONPHILLIPS, Jr. New York...

...John Alvis THE COHERENCE OF SHAKESPEARE’S ROMAN ’ PLAYS By JOHN ALVIS An unfinished task of Shakespearean studies is to account for the place of the Roman plays within Shakespeare’s total imaginative vi- sion. The fact...

... in the study), and his individuality never at odds with tradition all served to provide the contemporary example and inspiration to turn Sainte-Heuve (and others) to Greco-Roman studies for guidance when, as poet or critic, he began to explore his intellect and his own sensi tivi ties. Part 1...

...Peter Milward Reuben A. Brower. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. xi + 424 pp. $10.50 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 REVIEWS Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Heroic Tradition. By KEUBENA. BROWER.New...

...Armin Wishard Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 GEORG WEERTH’S VISION OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN FRAGMENT EINES ROMANS By ARMINWISHARD Georg Weerth (1822-56...

... Struktur des Romans. By GUNILLABERGSTEN. Stockholm : Svensja Bokfor- laget, 1963. Pp. 308. So far as I know, this highly readable German translation of Miss Bergsten’s Swedish work is the first major book to come out of the Thomas Mann Archiv in Zurich since it moved to its attractive...

.... CURTISC. D. VAIL University of Washington Rialife‘ sociale et ide‘ologie religieuse dans les romans de Thomas Mann. By PIERRE-PAULSAGAVE. Paris : Publications de la FacultC des Lettres de 1’Uni- versitC de Strasbourg, SociCtC d’Edition, Les Belles Lettres, fascicule 124, 1954. Pp...

...Roman S. Struc Günther Anders A. Steer, and A. K. Throlby. New York: Hillary House Ltd., Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought, 1961. Pp. 104. $2.00. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 404 Reviews climate of opinion and that he...

...Roman S. Struc Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE THREAT OF CHAOS : STIFTER’S BERGKRISTALL AND THOMAS MANN’S “SCHNEE” By ROMANS. STRUC At first glance, a comparison of a work by Thomas Mann with a production...