...Bernard F. Huppé Sigmund Eisner. Wexford, Ireland: John English & Co., 1957. Pp. 148. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1959 REVIEWS A Tale of Wonder: A Source Study of “The Wife of Bath‘s Tale.” By SIGMUND EISNER.Wexford, Ireland...

...Laura Hibbard Loomis REVIEWS Charlevnagne and Roland: A Study of the Source of Two Middle English Metrical Romances, “Roland and S%rnagzt” and “Otuel and Roland.” By RONALDN. WALPOLE.Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Publications...

... more than a brief review to challenge the substance of Mr. Clements’ conclusions, but it is our guess that it would stand up pretty well under fire. EDWARDF. MEYLAN University of Calif ornk Alfred de Vigny’s “Chatterton”: A Contribution to the Study...

...Geoffrey Greigh Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 ZELAUTO AND ITALIAN COMEDY A STUDY IN SOURCES By GEOFFREYCREIGH The “pound of flesh” story is traditional and common to many cultures. The principal...

.... CLOTILDEWILSON UniverJity of Washington The Sources of “A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues,” by Randle Cotgrave (London, 1611) : A Study in Renaissance Lexicography. By VERA E. SMALLEY.Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Extra...

... Walter Cameron Kenneth. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 William Ne1s o 11 129 A icthorship and Sources of “Gentleness and Nobility,” A Study in Early...

...William Nelson Walter Cameron Kenneth. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 46. $1.25. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 William Ne1s o 11 129 A icthorship and Sources of “Gentleness and Nobility,” A Study...

... source study periodization But if the question be for your own use and learning, whether it be better to have it set down as it should be, or as it was, then certainly is more doctrinable the feigned Cyrus in Xenophon than the true Cyrus in Justin, and the feigned Aeneas in Virgil than the right...

... earlier sources: to see what they might offer our understanding of events in our contexts. That is, we can read Milton anachronistically, with little regard for historical period. Reading anachronistically is, after all, one of the principal advantages and pleasures of fiction, of literary study...

...John T. Hamilton Literary history's persistent attempts to locate the work of Joseph von Eichendorff within German Romanticism aim at a stabilization that contradicts the very dynamism associated with this movement. A study of Eichendorff's exemplary novella Das Marmorbild ( The Marble Statue...

... study with an appended text, and her successes in untangling the web of sources are a model for this kind of work. Rightly rejecting any single “source” for Nuper huiuscemodi, she establishes the important fact that the debate ele- ment (a single soul’s address and a single body’s reply) was im...

... can hardly escape the fear that the author, throughout this interesting study, has fallen into a dangerous preoccupation with the single source. Not everything in the eighteenth century came from Shaftesbury! Certainly, Mrs. Schlegel does not think that it does, yet the implication...

... interestingly Mann’s extensive use of a letter from Paul Tillich and another from Bruno Walter (both will no doubt appear in the second volume of Thomas Mann’s letters, but they have not been available so far except in the Archiv). Throughout, the spirit of her source study is im- portant...

... of the historical method. It wisely reminds us again of Elizabethan theatrical conditions, of conventions in types of character, and of Shakespeare’s use of sources and of stage-devices”;12 by 0. J. Campbell in his care- ful background study of Hamlet in the Yale by W. T. Hastings : “The modern student...

... the latter only as one important element in the whole complex background of eighteenth-century ideas. In the realm of source study, as has been well said,5 it is sound doctrine to accept the idea of direct influence only when all other possible explanations prove invalid. This, we well...

...Marshall w. Stearns Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 498 Reviews A REPLY TO MR. UTLEY The topic sentence of Mr. Utley’s review is: “the book abounds in errors- of biography, history, source-study...

... this is so. During the nineteenth century, attention in medieval studies was concentrated on manuscript problems, on the rediscovery and editing of texts, on commentaries and source studies. In the case of the Nibelun- genlied, for example, a bitter controversy raged over the relative value...

... little expects to find biographical, topical, and source study, yet many of Lukacher’s readings depend on extratextual arguments. His dubious deflec- tion of The Merchant of Venice’s satire from Judaism to Puritanism, for exam- ple, depends on the relevance of a little-noted court case...

... without thought of this doctrine. Again, in his chapters on source studies Mr. Battenhouse argues that Mar- lowe has retained all the immoral traits of Tamburlaine found in the historical sources and also added others. The situation would be clearer if we knew exactly what Marlowe’s sources were...

... is hardly a good catalytic agent for the epic. Next, he points out what he con- siders the three trends of recent Milton scholarship-source studies, syntheses, and impressionistic criticism - and selects the work of three scholars as representative of these trends. Agreeing with Taylor...