... Fraud and Contemporary Fiction . The Faking of the Americans: Passing, Trauma, and National Identity in Philip Roth’s Human Stain Mark Maslan o become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies TAmerica’s story”: These are Nathan Zuckerman’s thoughts in Philip Roth’s Human...

...John D. Staines Abstract This essay explores the political implications of the periodization divides created by the closing of the public theaters in 1642 at the start of the English Civil War and their reopening in 1660 at the restoration of Charles II. The meaning of the theater, and the meanings...

...Lawrence Poston David Staines. Waterloo, Ont., Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982. xviii + 218 pp. $15.95. Distributed in U.S.A. by Humanities Press. $18.50. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 94 REV I EWS...

...). Chakravarty’s nuanced reading of these plays shows, moreover, that slavery’s legibility was frequently anchored in somatic markers that remained even after a slave was freed, thus producing the “stain of slavery” that proved so consequential in the establishment of racialized slavery. The rhetoric...

... Language Association (MLA) Job Information List? As John D. Staines observes, ads for Shakespeare specialists have continued to outpace those for scholars who focus on Milton and other non-Shakespeare or nondramatic early modern English writers, especially early modern women writers. “Shakespeare...

... rather consistently. By contrast, Staines’s ability to show how the sources both shaped and were shaped by Tennyson’s scheme reflects a consistent awareness of how details fit into a larger design, as well as how Tennyson’s imaginative reworking of the Arthurian myth evolved over virtually his...

... of the argument. She criticizes, as he himself would have done, the naive idea that the mere temptation leaves a stain of dishonor on the soul, and she employs the very language of Areopagitica in her denunciation of a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed. The trouble is that her...

... mistress’s feet. There follows that “stain” (line 21) must be metaphorical. And now the question stands thus: can concrete blood, running from the victim’s veins, wash a moral spot, very differ- ent from Lady Macbeth’s (adduced by Spitzer as an illustration) ; her hands once were “a butcher’s...

... the sensitive body stain? What matter? Heave no sigh, let no tear drop. . . What matter ? Out of cavern comes a voice, And all it knows is that one word “Rejoice!” The spirit of that assurance justifies, in the epitaph he wrote for himself, the asked-for “cold...

... in- tertwinement. It is comprised of the following: Colored hearing, 34-36. See also Stained glass Stained glass, 105. See also .Jewelsand Pavilion .Jewels,36, 81, 11 1, 143, 188, 252. See also Stained glass Pavilion, 215-216, 230 One could begin a discussion with any one...

.... (731-35) The repetition of “saine,” “sanc,” “ensaigne,” “sanc” rivets our atten- tion. The immediacy of the presentation is reinforced by the consistent use of the present tense, and the poet’s restatement emphasizes the blood-stained whiteness: Au tresallir que...

... burden of careful attention to detail which is hardly avoidable. The stain of a thesis is seldom removed by any form of revision, no matter how thorough. The scope of Professor Muller’s plan would actually demand the joint efforts of a trained Goethe scholar and a trained Hauptmann...

... Identity. What matter though numb nightmare ride on top, And blood and mire the sensitive body stain? What matter? Heave no sigh, let no tear drop. . . What matter ? Out of cavern comes a voice, And all it knows is that one word...

... in. On the immediate level, Dotty has just witnessed-or, perhaps, participated in-a murder. She is wearing, Stoppard tells us with a sense of the incongruous, a “blood- stained party frock” (p. 22). But more than Dotty’s frock has been stained. Her musical comedy ideal has been marred by the landing...

... reigns, And poisons genial love, and manhood stains.17 Smollett’s satire is complete with the close of the discussion : The earl smiled at my indignation, told me he was glad to find my opinion of the matter so conformable to his own, and that what he had advanced was only...

...,” and the middle six, the “inner Rule.” It is the inner Rule, as Grayson notes, that serves the lady and keeps her free from stain. The inner Rule, in turn, is served by the outer, which deals with external things, the body, keeping vigils, fasting and the like. . . . The outer Rule stands...

... that these six tales and not others within the collection bear close scrutiny. “The Christen- ing,” “A Fragment of Stained Glass,” and “Second Best,” for example, consti- tute equally appropriate material and tell us much about the ways Lawrence was changing during these years. At times Cushman...

... premises of thought mold understanding of experience, rather than the other way around. Thus the important line with which Blake marks our introduction to the world of his Songs of Innocence and of Experience: “And I stained the water clear” (“In- troduction’’ to Songs of Innocence, 18). However...

... the character will use the present tense, participles, or no verbal construction at all. As an example of these distinctions, let us look at page 27 of Ulysses. First, the narrator describes one of Stephen’s pupils in Mr. Deasy’s school: “On his cheek, dull and bloodless, a soft stain of ink lay...

... prosaic reality” (Hardy 2000 : 348). In the Wessex of his novels, men are stained and dusty from cumbersome forms of manual labor (hay trussing, cider pressing, furze cutting); animal blood trickles in viscous clots onto the ground; the ruins of ancient Roman constructions jut out from still more archaic...