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...Sondra J. Stang Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 A READING OF FORD'S THE GOOD SOLDIER By SONDRA J. STANG The subject of The Good Soldier is the fall of a great civilization and the consequent necessity that the narrator...

..., for his invaluable suggestions and encouragement. JULIEN SOREL-SOLDIER IN BLUEX By GARYM. GODFREY Ever since Stendhal’s impulsive decision to change the title of Julien to Le Rouge et le Noir, critics have advanced a plethora of arguments...

... many will, when they come to read Orchestra, turn for the sake of their eyes to Hebel and Hudson’s Poetry of the English Renaissance or some other an- thology. FRANCISR. JOHNSON Stanford University George Gascoigne: Elizabethan Courtier, Soldier...

...Boyd M. Berry Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 PURITAN SOLDIERS IN PARADZSE LOST By BOYDM. BERRY Although Joseph Summers was quite correct to point out that in Par- adise Lost Milton’s muse was “moving,” the lines full...

...Stephen Rupp Front Lines shows exemplary scholarship and historical analysis. Martínez meticulously draws on archives and rare book libraries and makes excellent use of the methods of book history to explain the emergence of the soldiers’ republic of letters. His findings are valuable...

...John Richardson Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane of 1701 marks an important step in the development of literary representations of military heroes. Rowe draws on and adapts seventeenth-century accounts of Timur and other soldiers to create a conqueror more virtuous and peace-loving than those portrayed...

... period in her career spanning U.S. 1 (1938) and Elegies (1949), Rukeyser enthusiastically joined the efforts of radical poets to recover the legacy of the Spanish Civil War while modifying elegy and adapting popular genres such as the soldier’s letter to the struggles of the present...

... appeal is to be found in the enduring popularity of its comic theme: the difficulties of the bluff soldier in relationship with women. For it is not as a “legendary Englishman” that Henry proposes to Katherine. His ineptness in courtship is constantly related to the con- ventional...

... of the sea in the chapter “Brit,” and, finally, the nucleus for the character of Starbuck. In creating Starbuck, Melville transformed Fuller’s portrait of “The Good Soldier,” but he was not able to eliminate completely the weaknesses of his source. Moreover, in his account of the pulverizing...

... and metaphorically. In 1540, hungry, exhausted, and disillusioned by the lack of gold or silver, Spanish soldiers were encouraged to persevere by their commander, who promised them an abun- dance of another natural resource: “hot” Guarani women. During the colonial period, indigenous men were accused...

... of Ford’s technique, largely centered on The Good Soldier, that wonderful enigma. And with the insights of Arthur Mizener’s critical biography and Moser’s biographical criticism, we are ready for the new angle Robert Green now covers: the relation between Ford’s political beliefs and his prose writ...

... achievement, a work both impressive and moving, objec- tive and intimate. Like Ford’s masterpiece, The Good Soldier, it is an odd hybrid that will not fit our comfortable categories, for it is no more the usual biograph- ical criticism than it is critical biography. Yet, like Ford’s novel, it is unified...

... of the opening, the hero triggers a sigh from the land mine, as if it had not been placed there as a weapon or a threat. This description turns the often-essentialized opposition between enemy soldiers into a matter of chance, a conflict not between two humans but between the protagonist and a hapless piece...

..., several weeks after the beginning of the war against the Spanish colonial army. According to the testimony of those who accompanied him, Marti rode at the head of his troops on a white horse against an ambuscade.' His corpse, captured and mutilated by enemy soldiers, was buried in a potter's field...

... of the Romans. It must be remembered, however, that Digges was basing his re- marks, not upon military experience,14 but upon his readings in an- cient history. And, typical of the “book soldier,” he apparently scorned those men who contested his point of view merely because “they had bene...

... (a Muslim who has made the obliga- tory pilgrimage to Mecca) accused of being a British spy by a mob of revolutionary soldiers. This text reads like a newspaper account. In “Dendam,” published in a 1963 collection of short stories about the revolution, the earlier account of revenge is turned...

... to slight what was possibly its most recently acquired art-the art of war. And we are apt to neglect it for the very reason that made it so remarkable : its far from brilliant sponsorship. Those who pleaded for an English art of war were meagerly literate soldiers and patriotic translators who...

... becomes the exponent of former g-lorj. in Heine’s poetry.ZJ Napoleon, Heine relates, had his double in the persoil of this soldier whose martial appearance ltroke the heart of every woman. The Emperor’s treatment at St. Helena is reflected 1)y the ill-treatment which the former drum...

... was a soldier on the Russian front, returned from field hospital to court, tried for treason (i.e., speaking too frankly) and imprisoned, eventually liberated to brief activity in theater and cabaret, long illness, and at twenty-six, death in a hospital in Swit- zerland. His feverish rhythms...

... of the elegy: Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare. Soldier, scholar...