... the critics. FLOYDC. WATKIN‘S Emory Uniuersity Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today. By GEOFFREYH. HAW-- MAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. xi + 323 pp. $18.00. Sauing the Text...

...Paul Rosenzweig Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 THE PATHFINDER THE WILDERNESS INITIATION OF MABEL DUNHAM By PAUL ROSENZWEIG Of Cooper’s five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pathfinder...

... culture into the American wilderness was religious. Accord- ingly Miller has investigated seventeenth-century English Protestant theology but mainly in the writings of those leaders accepted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He has worked at this theme systematically, energetically...

... it clear that such a description must be found because “A man without existing conventions (beliefs, etc.) depends for ideas of a new and noble order on ‘noble imagery.’ ”5 The task is some- times quite difficult because of certain wilderness challenges, and Ste- vens’s long attention...

.... FLOYDC. WATKIN‘S Emory Uniuersity Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today. By GEOFFREYH. HAW-- MAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. xi + 323 pp. $18.00. Sauing the Text: LiteraturelDerridalPhiEosophy.By GEOFFREYH. H.4RThlAN. Bal- timore...

... him in constantly extending his imaginative territory at the expense of wilderness. Thoreau, as every one of his readers knows, loves the wilderness and is beyond the simple wish to convert it into imagi- native uses. Thoreau knows that poets as well as farmers are relentlessly bent...

... of man is the Son of God? Milton in- vents an elaborate dialogue between Christ and Satan in the wilderness, a discourse so rich in rhetorical subtlety and incidental temptation that the simple three-part structure of the Gospel account is all but lost. Why does Milton choose to present...

..., Una’s flight into the wilderness in canto 3 is patterned upon that of the woman of Revelation clothed with the sun who fled into the wilderness to escape persecution. O’Connell argues that “Spenser is creating a typological ‘prophecy’ of Elizabeth’s figurative so- journ in the wilderness” (p...

... and practice—up to and including the various defamiliarization techniques—are revealed as manifestations of the baroque impetus to create “astonishment” in spectators (136). Brief but significant sections on Thornton Wilder and a chapter on Gertrude Stein are nothing short of revelatory: when seen from...

... argument on an assertion that ignores the nature of medieval romance technique: The passage describes how, during Orfeo’s solitary and no doubt for the most part silent sojourn in the wilderness, he would be on occasion afflicted by the sudden bursting about him of the other...

...!’ shouted Goodman Brown, in a voice of agony and desperation; and the echoes of the forest mocked him, cry- ing, ‘Faith! Faith!’ as if bewildered wretches were seeking her all through the wilderness” (p. 98). Then we are told, “The road grew wilder and drearier and more faintly traced...

... by migrant colonizers determined, as Cooper’s famous father put their lofty purposes, “to cause the Wilderness to bloom and fructify” for the 11 See, e.g., James Franklin Beard’s comment on The Red- Skins: “By making his narrators landlords, Cooper repeated unconsciously his strategic error...

... of genuine belief in the truths that originally produced it” (p. 252). Quite. Carlyle was supposed to have led us into the wilderness and left us there. It now looks as though he had a large number of followers who decided that the wilderness was in fact the Promised Land, and we are all dining...

... produced it” (p. 252). Quite. Carlyle was supposed to have led us into the wilderness and left us there. It now looks as though he had a large number of followers who decided that the wilderness was in fact the Promised Land, and we are all dining on thistles as a result...

... makes him, but he is a good deal less gloomy. His purpose is not only to unfold tales of human frailty and sorrow, but to explore the historical heritage, with all its ambiguities of bigotry and nobility, and in the exploration to discover what happens in the wilderness of New England to turn...

.... Louis as the center of the wholesale fur trade” (Poems, 269). Such materialism is “the savage’s romance, / accreted where we need the space for commerce” (54). Yet presumably “commerce” has made these commercial goods “accrete” in the “space” of the city, rendering it a kind of wilderness. Moore’s...

.... But such cavils aside, it seems curious that Perse’s antecedents have not been more thoroughly explored. Amos Wilder, who devotes a chapter to the work of Perse, says that “the poems are written in a kind of Dionysiac free verse.”l He then gives a two-page quotation from ExiZ (“Toujours il y...

... in the twinkling of an eye, doth rather belong to a vision,” or whether rest is the end of temptation or ratherjust a prologue “to newe conflicts.”J Calvin inspires a whole tradition of commen- tary, a wilderness hermeneutic, that might be traced in the writings of John Foxe, Augustine Marlorate, Lancelot...

..., the influence of such men and works as widely spread upon their contemporaries. Such pioneers appear rather like prophets in the wilderness. To say then that Gide fore- cast the evolution of drama in the next thirty-five years appears somewhat exaggerated. For today, in the year of grace 1940, drama...

... in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. By Robert E. Abrams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 168 pp. This ambitious study starts with the idea that a clear division between “civi- lization” and “the wilderness” is no longer taken for granted in much...