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...). © 2005 University of Washington 2005 The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain . By Ricardo Padrón. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 287 pp. Reviews Eine Literaturgeschichte Mitteleuropas. By Zoran Konstantinovic´ and Fridrun...

... and made it necessary to interpret all early West Germanic poems in this light. ROBERTP. CREED Uniuersity of Massachusetts, Amherst .9 The Winged Word (Albany, N.Y.:SUNY Press, 1975), p. 3. PMIA, 81 (1966): 334-41. Jonathan Sun...

...Paul Delaney Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 THE FLESH AND THE WORD IN JUMPERS By PAULDELANEY Jumpers explodes on the stage with a burst of flashing lights, puzzling pyramids of gymnasts, an unsynchronized medley...

... in the Attic and Susan Griffin’s Pornography and Silence, in which she eloquently argues that “within matter and not outside the material is a knowledge of the meaning of the universe.”7 At stake here is the fate of imagination as, in Guillory’s words, “the mask of desire; it inhabits the space between...

...Rachel M. Brownstein Margaret Homans Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, Women in Culture and Society, 1986. xiv + 326 pp. $22.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 328 REVIEWS Rearing the Word...

... TRANSCENDENCE, TOPOLOG’Y, AND THE THEORY OF THE WORD IN W. S. MERWIN’S POETRY By EDWARDHAWORTH HOEPPNER Since the publication of The Moving Target (1963), “absence” has become the shibboleth...

.... Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 506 Reviews Norwegian Word Studies. By EINARHAUGEN. Volume I, The Vo- cabularies of Sigrid Undset and Iwar Aasen; volume 11, The Vocabularies of the Old Norse Sagas and of Henrik Wergeland. Madison : The University...

...Scott Elledge Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 COWLEY’S ODE “OF WIT” AND LONGINUS ON THE SUBLIME: A STUDY OF ONE DEFINITION OF THE WORD WIT By SCOTTELLEDGE Inconclusive but numerous parallels between...

..., Sarah Parker Remond, and Charlotte Forten, along with Jacobs, Wilson, and Harper-to their “faith in the performative power of the word-both spoken and written” (3).She draws on Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, who argues (along with other critics) that women who spoke out in public forums, like...

...Ulrich Weisstein Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 CONCERNING THE WORD GOT(H)ISCH IN THE STAGE DIRECTIONS TO THE “NACHT” SCENE OF GOETHE’S FA UST By ULRICHWEISSTEIN To the casual reader of Goethe’s...

... which the cultural historians are likely to pose : What type of concept is missing in a certain language which must needs be borrowed from a foreign source? Can cultural fads and their importance in certain areas be measured in terms of the use of the foreign words they sweep with them...

... name. Only two misprints were noted: 97, 1, read that for what, and 696, 5, read be for me. CARROLLE. REED University of Washington A Word-Index to the Poems of Walther volt der Vogelweide. Edited by R.-M. S...

... i.e., a reference to the collective edition by Suffridus Petri (Colon. Agripp., 1581 or Colon. Allob., 1612). ARCHERTAYLOR University of California, Berkeley The Word “Irony” and Its Context, 1500-1755. By NORMANKNOX. Durham...

.... GEORGEDE F. LORD Yale University The Sonnets of Andreas Gryphius: Use of the Poetic Word in the Seven- teenth Century. By MARVINs. SCHINDLER.Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1971. ix -I- 177 pp. $8.50. This modest book, produced by an author who, aside from a short...

.... Portuguese Word-Formation With Sufixes. By JOSEPH H. D. ALLEN, JR. Baltimore : Linguistic Society of America, Lan- guage Dissertation no. 33, 1941. Pp. 143. $2.25. This study is an effort to present “a systematic study of Portu- guese words formed with suffixes” (p. 3). The chief...

...MARTIN STEVENS Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 THE STRUCTURE OF BEOWULF FROM GOLD-HOARD TO WORD-HOARD By MARTINS~EVENS Few scholars today would take issue...

... an academic field whose practitioners simply produce “words about words” be said to contribute to knowledge? If literary criticism is fundamentally, as Kramnick puts it, “writing about writing” (34), does it only circle around, explain, or extend things that are already written, or does it create something...

...Lawrence Willson F. GURA PHILIP. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. x + 203 pp. $17.50. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 300 REVIEWS The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New...