... notions regarding the formation of the ego and to neo-Marxist notions regarding the formation of the bourgeois individual. In either case, the comparative frameworks yield larger and richer readings. Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv Robert R. Wilson, The Hydra’s Tale...

... Western offshoot, the Seven Sages of Rome , in which narrative use is of central significance. I focus more particularly on a tale embedded in the Eastern Book of Sindibad , “The Merchant and the Rogues,” which was adapted and translated into Middle English in the form of the fifteenth-century Tale...

..., virtual to the end. This essay studies Geoffrey Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale because, among medieval narratives, it flaunts the richest domain of the virtual. Its plot largely revolves around not what happens in its story world but what could happen in it and yet does not. Paying attention to virtual strings...

...R. D. Perry This essay discusses the fart joke that ends Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Summoner’s Tale.” It argues that the joke uses the language of medieval philosophy to satirize the work of medieval Scholastic philosophers. The essay begins by examining Chaucer’s relationship to philosophy more broadly...

... ( New York : Bantam ). Davis Craig R. 1996 “Beowulf” and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England ( New York : Garland ). Davis Joel 2003 “ Paulina’s Paint and the Dialectic of Masculine Desire in the Metamorphoses, Pandosto, and The Winter’s Tale ”, Papers on Language...

...Hervé G. Picherit Much in Marcel Proust's Un amour de Swann —notably its position in the Recherche and the title itself—suggests that we might derive from the tale of Swann's love for Odette a general “law” about love, applicable throughout the Recherche . Yet far from conveying a clear account...

... of the fate of his works was his 1972 letter to Literaturnaia gazeta protesting against the piecemeal publication of his work in foreign journals. Contemporaries tended to read that document as a recantation letter renouncing Kolyma Tales ; as a result, Shalamov's status was transformed into that of a fallen...

...? Why have we decided to trust the tale? This essay develops some of the questions that my earlier work left open; more specifically, it deals with the inherent “bivalency” of narrative—its dependency on the temporalities both of the telling and of the told—and charts the history of the recent...

... photographs in the form of picture postcards. Edward Falco’s Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales (2006), available on the homepage of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), is a suite of image-text combinations where photograms are the object of ekphrastic re-presentations. Accounts of the Glass Sky...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher Abraham Cahan's first English novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , is a multilingual narrative whose literary strategies bear the marks of both Yiddish language and literature and American local color writing at the end of the nineteenth century. This article examines two...

...' criteria for similarity. In an extended case study of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), I argue that Victorian social-problem literature thematizes empathy across difference and that the self-conscious treatment of cultural difference is particularly helpful...

.... Affordances have entered into theater studies as both an aid to historicism and a way of considering plays outside their original contexts. My main example of affordances in Shakespearean drama is Perdita's offering of flowers to her guests in the sheepshearing episode of The Winter's Tale . Her two floral...

... Hopkins University Press ). James Henry 1914 Notes of a Son and Brother ( London : Macmillan ). 1964 [1896] “ The Figure in the Carpet ,” in The Complete Tales of Henry James , edited by Edel Leon , vol. 9 , 273 – 315 ( London : Rupert Hart-Davis ). Joyce James...

... in a Changing Europe, 1750–1850 , edited by Malino Frances Sorkin David , 126 – 47 ( Oxford : Blackwell ). ben Yehoshua Simḥa 1790 Ahavat Tziyon ( Hordona : n.p.) . Blamires David 2009 Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books 1780–1918...

... Study of Religion 49 . 2 : 361 – 73 . Nicol Brad 2011 “Detective Fiction and ‘The Original Crime’: Baudrillard, Calle, Poe,” Cultural Politics 7 . 3 : 445 – 63 . Person Leland S. 2008 “Queer Poe: The Tall-Tale Heart of His Fiction,” Poe Studies 41 . 1 : 7...

... and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Can- terbury Tales is illuminating. As distinct from the earlier western European tradition of cyclical narrative, the Russian cycle as it emerged and developed in the late 1820s and the 1830s features no unified narrative situation, no explicit rationale for the selection...

... : 1 – 7 . 1876 “Otryvki vizantiiskogo eposa v russkom: Povest' o vavilonskom tsarvstve” [“Extracts from a byzantine epic in Russian: The Tale of the Babylonian kingdom”] , Slavianskii sbornik 2 : 122 – 65 . 1877a “Die Sage vom babylonishchen Reich. Ein Bruchstück des byzantinischen...

... with the consideration of an effect. —Edgar Allan Poe, “The Philosophy of Composition” Poe and Rules In his 1838 tale “How to Write a Blackwood Article,” Edgar Allan Poe caricatures some formulas of British magazine writing of the time, namely, the display of erudition and the sensational...

... Structure in Fiction and Film ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press ). Clements Robert J. Gibaldi Joseph 1977 Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio and Chaucer to Cervantes ( New York : New York University Press ). Davenport Tony 2004...

... notions regarding the formation of the ego and to neo-Marxist notions regarding the formation of the bourgeois individual. In either case, the comparative frameworks yield larger and richer readings. Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv Robert R. Wilson, The Hydra’s Tale...