...Judith Brown Frost Laura , The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents ( New York : Columbia UP : 2013 ) , pp. 304, cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 “[W]hy do we assume that pleasure is the goal of writing or reading?” (206), asks...

... is certainly present here, with diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 , Randy Frost and Gail Steketee's influential case studies of hoarders, and numerous essays by Sigmund Freud threaded throughout the book. While Falkoff gestures with sympathetic understanding toward the impulse to hoard—an impulse found...

... on them, Proust's analogies work not unlike poetry in Robert Frost's famous definition: they offer “the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew” ( 777 ). Or as Zhang puts it, a Proustian metaphor “reminds [the reader] of something she didn't know she had forgotten, triggers some surprising...

.... DAVIDSON, PRISCILLA L. WALTON, AND JEhWIFER ANDREIVS, Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultlrrnl Inversiorrs (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003), pp. 223, cloth, $38.00. If Robert Frost is right that there is something "that doesn't love a wall," that "something" lives in Thomas King's stories; humor...

... to “privilege hesitation over commitment, appreciation of complexity over action” (112). We are left with a sensitive soul, unable and unwilling to sully his hands with actual political engagement. Reminiscent of Robert Frost's famous quip, “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel...

... of intersubjectivity and privacy. The capacity to be alone in the presence of another (Winnicott) or be “held” by the affective presence of the analyst (Bollas) resembles the capacity of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's speaker in “Frost at Midnight” to play within the intimate sphere established by the nearly silent...

... equivocation, laughter that targets but also threatens to collude with protofascistic, paternal authority, that puts the rire in arrière-ban. Greenberg lays out the Oedipal dynamic of this authority through a bravura triangulation of Molloy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight,” and Adorno’s...

... bodies and objects meet; such eroticized encounters with the object-world are equally important to William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost, and we can hope that Nieland’s theoretically ambitious account of Cummings will inspire others to revisit more contours of a long career that has almost...

..., it is the reader who is the emoting stone. But it is precisely through the banality and bathos with which his fiction defuses the crises of modernism that we can locate its pleasures. As Laura Frost argues, central to modernists' “reconceptualization” of aesthetic pleasure is the deployment of textual or verbal...

... echo in one area, the severe frost of January 1768, the frugal Hampshire practice of dipping rushes in fat and using them in lieu of candles. It is important to understand that unlike Selborne, Our Village does not claim to be a natural history and is in fact a kind of accumulation of various...

...: “for I speak of a time gone by,” she writes; “my hair which till a late period withstood the frosts of time, lies now, at last white, under a white cap, like snow beneath snow” (105). The joke here—but of course it is a serious one—is that Lucy Snowe is reduced not simply to the inevitable material...

... to the collapse of reader and writer, literary consumer and producer. Finally, examining the work of several writers in the forties and fifties, including Robert Frost and Richard Wright, Szalay argues that insurance--which understands individuals as both "isolate victims of circumstance...

... to something other than a liberal politics. Dianna Coole and Samantha Frost's introduction to New Materialisms , for example, asserts, “[O]ver the past three decades or so theorists have radicalized the way they understood subjectivity . . . Yet it is on subjectivity that their gaze has focused. Our...

... to learn to use a scythe in order to gain an experiential understanding of Robert Frost’s “Mowing” (Elder, “Poetryrather than the mimetic one with which it is often associated. As Jona- than Bate asks, “An artistic representation of a figure in a landscape cannot but be mediated. Is it possible...

... is individualized only by his rank in the institutional hierarchy and the physical marks of his age: we see “engineers of the railway, sunburnt and in tweeds, with the frosted head of their chief smiling with slow, humorous indulgence amongst the young eager faces” (180). Not even remarkable in his unremarkableness...

... Genre . Trans. Howard Richard . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1975 . Tryon Thomas . Modest Observations on the Present Extraordinary Frost . London : Larkin , 1684 . Watt James . Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764–1832 . Cambridge : Cambridge UP...

..., the decorations went beyond all my former experience; dates and names were wrought in lines of pastry and frosting on the tops. There was even more elaborate reading matter on an excellent early-apple pie which we began to share and eat, precept upon precept. Mrs. Todd helped me generously to the whole word...

... . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination . 2nd ed. New Haven : Yale UP , 2000 . Grosz Elizabeth . “ Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom .” New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics . Ed. Coole Diana and Frost Samantha...

... of John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster,” the “historians of the mid-nineteenth century,” and, “with the exception of Frost, all of the twentieth-century poets” (189–90). While oratory and history were excised from “literature” as a cultural designation, and other genres were demoted, the novel only gained...

... on a Harlem sidewalk, to “I yam what I am,” thus circuiting his identity—at this moment, at least—through the vernacular, and through his Southern heritage (266). Soon, though, he finds that one of the yams had been frost-bitten, thus undercutting his momentary euphoria. 17 Joseph Winters argues...