...Bernard F. Huppé REVIEWS A Tale of Wonder: A Source Study of “The Wife of Bath‘s Tale.” By SIGMUND EISNER.Wexford, Ireland: John English & Co., 1957. Pp. 148. “Why was it all necessary?” asks Sigmund Eisner, disarmingly, of his re-study...

...Lewis C. Seifert Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale . By Elizabeth Wanning Harries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. xiv + 216 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Lewis C. Seifert is associate professor of French studies at Brown...

... his forthcoming projects are a critical edition of the Ernest Fenollosa - Ezra Pound essay “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry” and a translation of Jean Métellus's Au pipirite chantant . China and the World: The Tale of a Topos Haun Saussy...

...Reginald Call “WANHE HIS PAPIR SOGHTE” (Chaucer’s Cook‘s Tde#A 4404) By REGINALDCALL In that sketch of a tale told by Chaucer’s cook’ concerning Perkyn Revelour, apprentice victualler, a certain “papir” is men- tioned...

...Maryam Wasif Khan Abstract The eighteenth-century English Oriental tale has in recent scholarship been read as both productive and dissident. But the legacies of this literary genre in the Indian colony and its role in the formation of a world literature remain mostly unstudied. The formation...

...Ernst G. Mathews Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 THE MURDERED SUBSTITUTE TALE By ERNSTG. MATHEWS Three scholars have attempted, the third of them with success, to discover the source of the substituted bride episode...

.... Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and Herbert Blau's most Shakespearean essay, “The Makeup of Memory in the Winter of Our Discontent” from The Eye of Prey , elucidate the form and function of surrogation by their reliance on doubles. A venerable tactic of dramatists and producers throughout theatrical history...

...Stewart Justman Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 “AUCTORITEE” AND THE KNIGHT’S TALE By STEWARTJUSTMAN In 1967 Robert Jordan wrote, “To observe that Theseus’ oration culminates the thematic development of the [Knight’s...

...Roland M. Smith SPENSER’S TALE OF THE TWO SONS OF MILES10 By ROLANDM. SMITH In his study “Amidas v. Bracidas” in this journal’ Herbert B. Nelson traces the background of Spenser’s episode (Faerie Queene, Book V, iv. 4-20) in English and Roman law. He argues...

...George B. Pace Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE SCORPION OF CHAUCER’S MERCHANT’S TALE By GEORGEB. PACE The climactic section of Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale opens with the malediction: 0 sodeyn hap! o thou...

... the author, like Don Armado, has drawn out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. JAMESL. CALDERWOOD University of California, Los Angeles The Romantic Fairy Tale: Seeds of Surrealism. By MARIANNETHALMANN...

... by sacrifices another’s body is slain, whereas by obedieitce rite slay our oioii will. Gregory the Great, Moralia, Bk. XXXV THE CLERK’S TALE AND THE THEME OF OBEDIENCEX By JOHN P. MCCALL...

...Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 TIME AND PRESENCE IN THE WINTER’S TALE By STANTONB. GARNER,JR. Literally as well as figuratively, Time stands at the center of The Winter’s...

...-no! a real love, a love which has flesh and blood. . . . -Ludwig Feuerbach’ CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S “TALE HALF-TOLD” THE DISRUPTION OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN JANE EYRE...

... in Italy and France. ARTHURH. NETHERCOT Northwestern University Theme and Structure in Swift’s “Tale of a Tub.” By RONALDPAULSON. New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale Studies in English, Vol. 143, 1960. Pp. xiv + 259. $4.50...

...Paul A. Olson Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 POETIC JUSTICE IN THE MILLER’S TALE By PAULA. OLSON F. N. Robinson notes that critics have observed, in Chaucer’s tales of the Miller and the Reeve, “a kind of moral quality...

...Elizabeth Simmons-O'neill LOVE IN HELL THE ROLE OF PLUTO AND PROSERPINE IN CHAUCER’S MERCHANT’S TALE By ELIZABETHSIMMONS-O’NEILL The late fourteenth century in England-in the midst of the Hundred...

...A. S. G. Edwards Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THE MERCHANT’S TALE AND MORAL CHAUCER By A. S. G. EDWARDS “Good sense dictates that Chaucer, known to a contemporary as a Seneque en meurs, and so...

... Theory/Theatre: An Introduction . Married with Children: 27~Winter’s Tale and Social History or, Infacticide in Earlier Seventeenth-Century England Mark Fortier CAMILLO Have you thought on A place whereto you’ll go? FLORIZEL Not any yet...