...William L. Tarvin Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 TRAGIC CLOSURE AND “TRAGIC CALM” By WILLIAML. TARVIN At the end of tragedy, whether measured formally, themati- cally...

...Lawrence Babb G. F. Sensabaugh. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1944. Pp. x + 196. $2.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Lawrence Babb 115 The Tragic h4use of John Ford. By G. F. SENSABAUGH.Stanford: Stanford...

... that, for all their skepticism regarding the writer’s task, they kept on writing and produced a literary corpus that is un- surpassed elsewhere in the twentieth century. THEODOREZIOLKOWSKI Princeton University Tragic Realism and Modern Society...

...Richard H. Perkinson Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 NATURE AND THE TRAGIC HERO IN CHAPMAN’S BUSSY PLAYS By RICHARDH. PERKINSON I Chapman’s tragedies have provided the material...

...W. H. Rey Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 1 This article was read as a paper before the German Section of the Ninth Annual Northwest Conference of Foreign Language Teachers (April 10-12, 1958) at the University of Oregon. TRAGIC ASPECTS OF THE ARTIST...

...William H. Rey Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 A TRAGIC VIEW OF THOMAS MANN By WILLIAMH. REY Erich Heller made himself widely known as a challenging critic and a brilliant writer when in 1952 he published a collection of his...

...Charles Altieri Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 FROM A COMIC TO A TRAGIC SENSE OF LANGUAGE IN YEATS'S MATURE POETRY By CHARLESALTIERI Although critics of Yeats have shown corisiderable interest in his...

... respect force ne depouille les restes. (21-24) This opening speech contains in microcosm the tragic universe of Athalie: at the center is the rigorous division of grace and corruption; the center is surrounded by past and future; the present is heavy...

...Frank J. Kearful Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 “ ’TIS PAST RECOVERY” TRAGIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN ALL FOR LOVE BY FRANKJ. KEARFUL The familiar case against Restoration attempts to “improve” Shake- speare was put most...

... makes its impression. Shall I say it? ’Tis the Heart alone that reconciles Con- trarieties, and admits of things incompatible. (La Bru- yere, The Characters) “THE VISIONARY MAID” TRAGIC PASSION...

...Robert E. Knoll REVIEWS Christopher Marlowe’s Tragic Vision: A Study in Damnation. By CHARLES G. MASINTON.Athens: Ohio University Press, 1972. x + 168 pp. $8.00. It used to be that we saw Marlowe as spokesnian for those Keriaissarice men...

...Robert P. Adams TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE ELIZABETHAN TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES By ROBERTP. ADAMS My aim in this essay is to make as clear as possible both the nature...

...Edward Engelberg Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 TRAGIC BLINDNESS IN THE CHANGELING AND WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN By EDWARDENCELRERG The theme of man’s tragic blindness pervades Western literature : blindness to the true...

...Karl S. Weimar Karl S. Weimar Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 218 Rm*ews Hsine, ‘Ihe Tragic Satirist. By S. S. PRAWER.Cambridge: At the University Press, 1961. Pp. x + 315. $6.50. Rilke, Europe, and the English-Speaking World...

...Richard B. Sewall Griffith Clark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. viii + 308 pp. $6.00. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 RICHARD B. SEWALL 351 The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson’s Tragic Poet y. By CLARKGRIFFITH...

... ord University Shakespeare and the Tragic Theme. By ARTHURH. R. FAIRCHILD. Columbia : University of Missouri Studies, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 1944. Pp. 145. $1.50. The central issue in Shakespeare’s tragedy is that between passion and reason, or as restated by Professor Fairchild...

...Kieran M. Murphy Abstract Contemporary actors and, later, historians and critics have long compared the Haitian Revolution to a tragic play. But the model of tragedy they invoke has changed over time. Today the best-known example comes from The Black Jacobins (1963), in which C. L. R. James...

...” alongside early modern prison literature, the essay argues that the speech’s work as lyric within tragic drama erodes dramatic irony, removing the audience from the superior knowledge position that such irony affords and that enables ableist perspectives to begin with. In shifting attention from tragic...

... , the essay argues that the key to the Cornelian model of literary greatness is the degree to which Corneille identifies his own poetic inspiration with his tragic protagonists, and capitally with the first of them, the eponymous heroine of Médée . When set in dialogue with the ventriloquistic absence...

... ceremonies. The omission of Racine’s tragic corpus is a gaping hole in Louis Marin’s discussion of the seventeenth-century theory of representation. Marin sees a perfect correlation between Pierre Corneille’s theater and the theatricality of power, conceived of as a force constructed through a dialectic...