... a servant of the monarchy, Du Bellay contests monarchical authority and Ronsardian poetics through a particular reading of Homer: his self-portrayal contrasts with prudent Odysseus, whom Du Bellay's teachers had proposed as a model to the French king and whom the poet claimed ironically to surpass...

... divide. The difficulty and startling effects of Browning’s poetry distinguished him from poets whose reputations had been made before the war—poets admired by the parents and teachers of these readers. Although he was valued specifically for being his readers’ contemporary, interpreting the difficulties...

... that the vital processes of ingestion and appropriation give flesh and blood to art and to life in general. Reformulating ethical questions, scholars now ask about levels of collaboration and mutual admiration. Interest need not disappear when love arrives. That’s why teachers today (through Pre-Texts...

... with an ambitious inquiry: “What does it mean to be a person, a human self?” (1). Newman explores this question through the distinct lenses of five medieval relationships: those between teacher and student, saint and sinner, lover and beloved, mother and child, and possessed persons and the supernatural others who...

... .” English Journal 17 , no. 4 : 292 – 99 . Birch Dinah . 2010 . “ ‘Good Teaching’: Adam Bede and Education .” George Eliot Review 41 : 7 – 15 . Blakely Gilbert Sykes . 1908 . Teachers’ Outlines for Studies in English . New York : American Book Company . Bolenius Emma...

.... In einer Stadt mit humanistischer Tradition. Goethe hat hier ubernachtet. Brahms ein Quartett komponiert. Diese Werte verpflichten” (p. 304). * The teacher has been the major advocate of the traditional view of the humanitarian ideals. The measure of his corruption is clear from his ironic speech...

... University Press, 1946. Pp. ix + 440. $3.75. This remarkable book should be read by teachers of literature, by English majors and graduate students in English and sociology de- partments, by librarians, and by writers who write because they have something to say. It should be of more than passing...

...-the ape could not understand why. After that his progress was very rapid, although marred once by the fact that one of his teachers, as a result of his contact with him, almost became an ape himself. Today he has a smug satisfaction in the thought that he has reached the intel- lectual...

.... SCHRAMM.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. Pp. viii + 269. $3.00. Even a casual reading of this book stirs the reflection that sound theory for the advanced training of students of literature does not always correspond to the general practice of graduate- school teachers...

... “crazy” ambition to Phoebe, 1 J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (Boston, 1951), pp. 224-25; all page relerences are to this edition. JONATHAN BAUMBACH 463 he calls up one of his former teachers, Mr. Antolini, who is both intelli- gent...

... of Natalia’s revolutionary hope and the language teacher’s hard-bitten historical pessimism in Under Western Eyes. Raval writes, “One of Conrad’s most powerful achievements in this novel is his linking of two radically opposed aspects of man’s historical experience and aspirations: that is, the link...

..., Holmes (Cabeen), Farrar and Evans, Weiss on fifteenth- century English humanism, Atkins, N. P. Ker, Apel, and Harvey. This list, unlike the syllabus, neglects important articles written during the period. It is high time to have teachers demonstrate by their assignments (even for under...

...- stores and printers’ shops on the hill with the force of a storm front, sweeping many a student and teacher off his feet, causing some to run for their lives, only a step ahead of the theology faculty’s notori- ously long arm. On the whole, the university was successful in repel- ling...

.... The secular curriculum Lanson helped establish promoted a pedagogy that transmitted a set of dispositions toward literature from teachers to students, and the effects of that pedagogy deserve closer scrutiny. 1 Barthes, “Reflections on a Manual” (1971), trans...

... a recent past president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. She is author of Working in English: History, Institution, Resources (1996) and Come Bright Improvement! The Literary Societies of Nineteenth-Century Ontario (2002) and, with Yannick Portebois...

..., buy books, and pay teachers or tutors. ’ Henry Richard Fox Bourne, The LiJe ojjohn Locke, 2 vols. (London, 1876), 2:38385. The claim appears in a well-known memorandum, here reproduced. In I1 Pane Sulvagio (Bologna: II Mulino, 1980). .s In I1 Pmsiero pehgogzco del nnascimenlo, ed...

... It is stimulating to discover how useful the skeleton of one college course can be to teachers everywhere. The wise threefold division under each lecture-title is a practical solution to our current problem of how to make an elementary course profitable to advanced students. There is a minimal division...

... the way the abject “solicits” and “fascinates” our desire. 24 On Nancy’s refusal to aggrandize otherness, see Palumbo-Liu 2002 : 91. 25 NDiaye’s novel Un temps de saison (1994) features an arrogant math teacher who mysteriously loses his family on summer vacation; The Witch ( La...

... University Press, 1942. Pp. xvii + 347. $2.15. In 1928 the Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English recommended, as a desirable minimum requirement for undergraduate majors and prospective teachers of English, a six- semester-hour course beyond the freshman year devoted...

... no bibliographical apparatus what- ever, the assumption being, one supposes, that readers will refer to the separately published Cambridge bibliographies. It is difficult to see what good purpose this work will serve. As a commercial venture, it may be profitable to the publishers, but teachers...