...HERBERT J. LEVINE Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 YEATS AT THE CROSSROADS THE DEBATE OF SELF AND ANTI-SELF IN “EGO DOMINUS TUUS” By HERBERTJ. LEVINE Soon after the turn of the century...

...Günter Leypoldt leypoldt@as.uni-heidelberg.de The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature . By Beth Blum . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xiv + 329 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Beth Blum’s illuminating...

...J. C. Levenson Robert F. Sayre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. xiii + 212 pp. $4.75. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 98 REVIEWS The Examined Self: Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James...

.... CHESTERW. OBUCHOWSKI University of Connecticut Baudelaire devant ses contemporains. Textes recueillis et publiCs par W. T. BANDYand CLAUDEPICHOIS. Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1957. Pp. 347. 890 frs. Baudelaire: A Self-Portrait. By Lors BOE HYSLOPand FRANCISE. HYSLOP,JR...

... developed conceptions of the “self,” Bedient recognizes that the “self” cannot be defined in isolation; and, in a particular focus of intelligent interest, he provides a short chapter for each on the politics implicit in the fiction. He clearly traces the successive attempts to ignore, seduction...

... without regard to its effect on any particular idea of his own, his declared focus on self, love, and art feels in the early chapters like an arbitrary means for boxing some valuable discussions of individual sonnets. Then, along about page 140, one realizes that the book is in process...

...Hildegarde Drexl Hannum Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 SELF-SACRIFICE IN DOKTOR FAUSTUS THOMAS MAN”S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAUST LEGEND By HILDEGARDEDREXL HANNUM The basis...

... The Dialectics of Isolation: Self and Society in the French Novel from the Realists to Proust. By RICHARDTERDIMAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Romanic Studies, Second Series, 25, 1976. xvi + 265 pp. $12.50. The subject of this book (despite its more ambitious title...

... derived from the period’s fiction. This is what Patricia Spacks does in her most recent book. Treating fiction as well as autobiography, Imagining a Self offers three kinds of critical performance: reading-ften lengthy readings-of a number of eighteen th-cen tury novels and autobiographies...

... as the 191 192 KEVIELVVS source of his own writing, with those psychological and intellectual experi- ences that determined his eventual preoccupation with self. Rather than focusing upon the influence of language upon language or upon...

...Beth Blum This essay uses “self-help” guides to James Joyce as an occasion to illuminate the buried history of modernism’s engagement with popular morality. It suggests that the birth of Joyce’s aesthetic—and, by extension, of modernism more broadly—is attributable to early twentieth-century...

...Jesse Matz Jesse Matz is associate professor of English at Kenyon College. He is author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (2001), The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction (2004), and a number of articles on modernist literature and culture. Self-Impression: Life...

...Paul Schacht Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 JANE EYRE AND THE HISTORY OF SELF-RESPECT By PAUL SCHACHT The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself...

... Weissberg and the editors of Modern Language Quarterly for their comments and suggestions. HEGEL‘S SELF-CONSCIOUS WOMAN* By JAY GELLER When in the PhenonzenoZogy ofSpirit Hegel marks his transcendence of the Kantian and post-Kantian traditions...

...Charles Altieri Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness Charles Altieri n writing my Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry I Iencountered problems that make...

...Timothy J. Reiss The Self-MadeMap: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France. By Tom Con- ley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. xiii + 372 pp. $34.95. This book makes interesting claims. One is that a “cartographic impulse” informs-indeed, grounds- the early modern...

...Gordon Braden Grossman Marshall. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1998. xxiii + 347 pp. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reviews The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry. By Marshall Grossman...

...Laura J. Rosenthal Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 . By Jonathan Lamb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xii + 345 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson. Oxford: Oxford...

... of Self-Expression. By JOAN KEES. Cam- bridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. viii + 204 pp. $39.95. Joan Kees is not one of those critics blessed with the dubious gift of being able to understand an author without appreciating him. Her book provides...

... to comprehend the creature provide many varied readings of the ‘text’of the whale” (p. 159). LAWRENCEWILLSON University of California, Santa Barbara The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans. By FREDERICKGARBER. Princeton: Princeton...