... book continues the avant-garde tradition of resistance and contestation while recognizing Bertolt Brecht’s fundamental formulation of a theater that illuminates contradictions yet refuses to supply resolution. In its irresolution The Art of Unfinished Theater demonstrates the nature of the avant...

... to the present. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848 . By Clare Pettitt . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . xviii + 348 pp. [email protected] Indeed, Pettitt writes that Serial Forms is the first...

...Stanley Tick Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF DOMBEY AND SON By STANLEYTICK Let me begin by making two generalized observations about Dombey and Son. It is the first of his novels which Dickens...

...Dino S. Cervigni Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 CELLINI’S VITA, OR THE UNFINISHED STORY OF A DISILLUSIONED HERO By DINOS. CERVIGNI Benvenuto Cellini, the narrator-protagonist of the Vita, was born...

.... 123)-and so is the vocabulary of “means and end, struggle and goal, process and product” (p. 73). Thus Fish provides The Temple with a catechistical hermeneutics of “an ambiguous text am- biguously interpreted” (p. 67), a catechistical “aesthetic of the unfinished” (p. 161...

... considers the unfinished novels of Hawthorne’s closing years. The Ancestral Footstep, Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret, Septimius Felton, and The Dolliver Romance. By tracing the numerous unpublished pre- paratory studies and drafts of these novels from their beginnings to their furthest stage...

... of interminable prayers. The “weak- nesses” of these Gebete, an avowedly unfinished and often undisciplined series, are forceful emotions quite natural to a breathless prayer : “lack of climaxes [of the units] with no departure from the theme, sub- mersion of the individuality of the single lyric...

... irresponsibility. Professor Davidson has dealt inadequately with a number of the valuable problems suggested by his study. His thesis, that the methods of the unfinished novels are representative also of the novels of the major phase, is inherently reasonable, although his own repeated emphasis upon...

...E. H. Eby Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 MARK TWAIN’S TESTAMENT By E. H. EBY The Mysterious Stranger, although unfinished and posthumously published, is one of Mark Twain’s great works. Nevertheless, few have examined...

... wrote the Stun- denbuch; he created a succession of interminable prayers. The “weak- nesses” of these Gebete, an avowedly unfinished and often undisciplined series, are forceful emotions quite natural to a breathless prayer : “lack of climaxes [of the units] with no departure from the theme...

... to be approaching them. Indeed, it is hard to find the fragment viewed as form, and desirable form, before the well-known passage at the end of Chapter 32 of Moby Dick: But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left...

... the unfinished Fall of Hyperion, an allegory of his poetic life, belies any claim to “the completeness of patterning allegory implies” (“Toward a Definition of Romantic Irony,” p. 9). Sperry brings the same dubiety to Shelley. Sperry knows the appeal of the allegorical career, as is shown by his...

...Michael Dango References Coviello Peter . 2019 . Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Freeman Elizabeth . 2019 . Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities...

.... The work’s unfinished quality is a feature of its form: “the topos of the Way” implies “an act unfinished, . . . the style adumbrates the continuing obsolescence of a transient world” (p. 162). Yet the ending does present a sense of closure: the Parson’s final topic is de contemptu mundi...

... with Introduc- tion, Notes, and Glossary by THOMASA. KNOTTand DAVIDC. FOWLER. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1952. Pp. xiv + 302. $4.50. For the past forty years Piers Plowman scholarship has had a good deal of unfinished business on its agenda : arguments for multiple authorship...

... in material or perspective. Save for minor details, Victor Bouillier (another French Lichtenherg biographer), Wilhelm Grenz- mann (the author of the other monograph aiming at completeness), and Otto Deneke (writer of an unfinished biography) have set down in their books the substance of which...

... biographer), Wilhelm Grenz- mann (the author of the other monograph aiming at completeness), and Otto Deneke (writer of an unfinished biography) have set down in their books the substance of which Schneider’s work is made. And yet Schneider surpasses his predecessors in more than mere all...

... was hid. (2.314-16) Thus at the moment of consummation (which is also the end of the poem, since Marlowe left it unfinished), we have an image that sug- gests the climax of the Mermaphroditus story in three ways: the bodies of the lovers become entangled...

... the old theory of Jules Lebon on the Psychologie des fodes, evidently was somewhat puzzling to Mr. Brodin. At any rate, we observe that the pages allotted him in the book amount to not much more than a resumC of his novels, especially of the unfinished series Hommes de bonne volotztk; indeed...

... for accumulation of any kind” (24) that Matz says characterizes Flaubert’s style and Samuel Beckett’s is qualified and appears in most cases as an ambivalence. Even Flaubert, in the late correspondence and in the unfinished Bouvard et Pécuchet , has passages of sadness and self-satire on childlessness...