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...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...

... bound. I have discovered but two misprints : in for In (p. 60, line 18) and underlaid for underlay (p. 98, line 18). VIRGILB. HELTZEL Northwestern University The Making of “Jonathan Wild”: a Study in, tlzc Literary Method of Henry Fielding...

...Arthur H. Nethercot Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 CHRISTABEL’S WILD-FLOWER WINE By ARTHURH. NETHERCOT John Livingston Lowes, Wylie Sypher, and others have amply demonstrated Coleridge’s habit of assimilating and transmuting...

... of California, Riverside Speiisefs Image of Nature: Wild Man and Shepherd in “The Faerie Qucene.” By DONALDCHENEY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Studies in English, Vol. 161, 1966. 262 pp. $6.50; 48s. Originally a dissertation, Spenser‘s Image of Nature might have been...

...Raphaël Ingelbien; Benedicte Seynhaeve This essay explores the intertextual use of Hamlet in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish Girl and Germaine de Staël's Corinne to shed new light on these writers' interventions in European Romantic politics. Both Owenson and Staël associated their male protagonists...

...Victor A. Oswald, Jr Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ∗ Read before the German Section of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 27, 1948. OSCAR WILDE, STEFAN GEORGE, HELIOGABALUS* By VICTORA. OSWALD...

...David Parker OSCAR WILDE’S GREAT FARCE THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST By DAVIDPARKER It is generally agreed that The Zmportance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, but there is little agreement on why...

...Petra Dierkes-Thrun The familiar scholarly view of Richard Strauss's modernist opera Salome is that it overturns the original aesthetics of its libretto source, Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist-decadent drama. A close reconsideration of the presumed opposition between the two works, however, shows...

.... Newsome, whose “Cartesian method,” as Posnock calls it (p. 225), “doesn’t admit surprises.” MILLICENTBELL Boston University Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. By JONATHAN DOLLIMORE. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. x...

...Florian Gargaillo Abstract This essay argues for the distinctive role of allusion in queer poetry of the pre-Stonewall era, using the work of Oscar Wilde, A. E. Housman, and Countee Cullen as case studies. Most allusions depend on implicit verbal echoes that can be identified by readers able...

... for disciplinary transfer. Instead, it offers terms and concepts that can be modified fruitfully for literary critics. I use Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) as a test case for such modi- fication. My purpose is not to interpret Wilde’s novel but to construct a framework for understanding...

... of creative artists. The two best-known Aes- thetic critics, Pater and Wilde, invite us to change our ways of per- ceiving art and, thus, all of human experience. For both, the act of per-. ception is the crucial critical and creative act; all else derives from it. Paser and Wilde seem dated...

... reference, however, to a “pinfold” in or near Salisbury. Lydbury North (Salop), though it is associated by Walter Map (De Nugis Curialium, dist. 2, cap. xii) with the Welsh “wild man” Edricus Sylvester, seems too far from “the Merlin country” to merit particular attention. But see note...

...Robert T. Ittner T. Wilde Jean. New York: Bookman Associates, 1955. Pp. 474. $6.00. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 374 Rcvimv no matter how pertinent. Schneider’s Lichtenberg is an old-fashioned work in the best sense of the word...

...Virginie Greene In the epilogue McCracken comments on the historical episode named “Bal des Ardents” (Dance of the Burning Men) as told by Jean Froissart in his Chroniques . On January 28, 1393, Charles VI and five courtiers disguised as wild men in a court festivity caught fire accidentally...

...: if it looks transgressive, swam across the Channel, and quacks a dandy, then it’s probably decadence. Edward Carson, counsel for the defense in the 1895 Wilde v. Queensberry libel trial, took that abductive approach by invoking two French authors to signal the plaintiff’s moral deviance. Pierre Louÿs...

..., Nationalism, and Canon Formation 217 paintings, perfumes, liquors, and exotic flowers. Oscar Wilde’s titular protagonist in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) follows Des Esseintes in his profusion of collections: jewels, musical instruments, textiles, perfumes, ecclesiastical vestments.8 Eliante...

... Wilde himself—dying young? Both Vincent Sherry and Matthew Potolsky question this critical consensus. Sherry’s study opens with the British critic Arthur Symons’s decision in 1899 to rewrite his book-length 1893 essay The Decadent Movement in Literature and retitle it The Symbolist Movement...

... printed, and handsomely bound. I have discovered but two misprints : in for In (p. 60, line 18) and underlaid for underlay (p. 98, line 18). VIRGILB. HELTZEL Northwestern University The Making of “Jonathan Wild”: a Study in, tlzc Literary Method...