... approaches, this essay argues that it is precisely the hermeneutic attention to particular works that has allowed critical humanists to think about literary practice within the most encompassing purview. For those in this tradition, “world literature” can never be a stable object but is a speculative...

... deal less recondite. WILLIAMH. GALPERIN Rutgers University ‘ The Unremarkable Worhiuorlh (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987). Intervals of Inspiration: The Skeptical Tradition and the Psycholoa of Romanti- cism...

..., and aesthetic pleas- ure provided by Stevens’s urbane humanism. PETERW. TRAVIS Dartmouth College Milton and the Sense of Tradition. By CHRISTOPHERGROSE. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xiii + 240 pp. $27.50. In his...

...Susanna Greer Fein Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 FORM AND CONTINUITY IN THE ALLITERATIVE TRADITION: CRUCIFORM DESIGN AND DOUBLE BIRTH IN TWO STANZAIC POEMS By SUSANNAGREER FEIN Motifs...

.... Christopher Baswell, Prof. A. S. G. Edwards, and Dr. Mike Pätzold for their comments on earlier versions of this essay; and to Dr. Alice Miskimin for introducing me to Dunbar and Skelton. TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN THE MACARONIC POETRY OF DUNBAR AND SKELTON...

... Trolander, Berry College Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, and the Perfmative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition. By Allan Stoekl. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 384 pp. $40.00. Agonies of the Intellectual attempts an intellectual history, wary...

...Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the Autonom.iSta Tradition Arcadio Diaz-Quiiiones The end of a tradition does not necessarily mean that traditional concepts have lost their power over the minds of men...

... and from the comments of Yopie Prins. Virginia Jackson is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. Her first book, Dickinson's Misery , is forthcoming. She is currently at work on a manuscript titled Longfellow and the Institution of Poetry . Longfellow’s Tradition; or, Picture...

...Gregory Mechacek The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition . By Joseph Pucci. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. xxii + 263 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285...

...Lorna Martens Rilke, Modernism, and Poetic Tradition . By Judith Ryan. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1999. xi + 256 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland Greene. Chicago: University...

...Vivian Pollak Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition . By Schmidgall Gary . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xxvi + 368 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict...

...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 KING LEAR AND THE MERLIN TRADITION By ROLAND&I. SMITH It has been generally believed that the great scenes of King Lear which unfold the madness of Lear, Edgar, and the Fool sprang from...

...C. B. Graham Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 THE JONSONIAN TRADITION IN THE COMEDIES OF THOMAS D’URFEY By C. B. GRAHAM It is a matter of common knowledge among scholars that the comedy of humours popularized by Ben Jonson...

...Curtis Carroll Davis Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE VIRGINIA “KNIGHTS” AND THEIR GOLDEN HORSESHOES : DR. WILLIAM A.. CARUTHERS AND AN AMERICAN TRADITION By CURTISCARROLL...

... and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. Pp. xiv + 206. $4.00. New World Literature: Tradition and Revolt in Latin America. By ARTURO TORRES-RIOSECO.Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1949. Pp. v + 250. $3.75. Rub& Dario : Antologia Poe‘tica...

..., and their faith that this was God’s world and that they were the children of God. Henri Fulchbe discusses the increasing interest raised by “Shakespeare in France : 1900-1948” and the part which the English dramatist has played as a classic in the literary tradition of twentieth-century France...

... (the development of‘ the cmblem, for example), but it designates also poetic tradition: the body of words, myths, situations present in those writings on which Sckve often calls for inspiration. Since it is Cole- man’s conviction that “our appreciation of Sckve, as the poet of love, is at the same time...

...: The Uses of Tradition. By T. J. REED.Oxford: Clat-endon Press, 1974. ix + 433 pp. $27.25. Thc captains and kings of Thomas Mann scholarship have departed from the various centers of commenioration. Nineteen seven ty-five, the year of the centenary, is past. The tide of ephemeral...

... and Joseph Andrews, it may as well be the mode of Humphry Clinker too. THOMASLOCKWOOD University of Washington Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things: “Bleak House” and the Novel Tradition. By ROBERTNEWSOM. New York...

...Walter J. Ong Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SPENSERS VIEW AND THE TRADITION OF THE “WILD” IRISH By WALTERJ. ONG In A View of the Present State of Ireland’ there is a puzzling inconsistency between Edmund Spenser’s...