...James H. Sims Swift’s Use of the Bible: A Documentation and a Study in Allusion . By Beaumont Charles Allen . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1965 . Pp. 68 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Book Reviews 551 conceiving ? Had not Stevens often...

...Howard S. Babb Jane Austen’s Art of Allusion . By Moler Kenneth L. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1968 . Pp. vii , 233 . $7.25 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 434 The South Atlantic Quarterly A Newspaper History of England, 1792-1793. By Lucyle...

... urban matrix hardly has time to be itself in the haste with which it hums a threnody of global evocations, and the traceur moving soundlessly in such a sensorium, or glimpsed briefly against a cityscape of allusive forms, will tell us everything we need to know about presence if he or she will but tarry...

... to be fused with Biblical story in alien epic patterns. For example, the first fifteen lines of Paradise Lost, as Sims points out, contain allusions to no less than fifteen Biblical passages. Some of these, such as allusions to the Pentateuch, are to be expected; but the average reader does not expect to find...

... to death than Fielding needed to do in his novel. The Tragic Complexion Fielding refers to is, nevertheless, much more fully worked out in the novel, primarily through allusions to tragedies. More self-consciously than the comic dramatists he admired Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Moliere, and Gay Fielding...

..., properly interpreted, consistently function to return him to Hell and to himself. His freedom, in the sim­ iles as elsewhere, is only the illusion of freedom. Milton, not Satan, manipulates the tropes, and his principal device for both disguising and unmasking Satan is allusion to his literary predecessors...

... satires. Then Professor Aden combs thoroughly Pope s writings from the earliest verse through the final translations of Homer in 1726. His thesis is that Pope smuggled into almost all these poems and translations covert allusions and images which convey to the alert reader an anti-Williamite, anti...

... occasional allusions or passing references are magnified in such a way as to give a distorted picture of the overall tone or intention of the work in which they occur. Finally, he does not seem to have considered very seriously the methodological problems raised by his thesis. Political satire does not exist...

... intellectual history. In politics alone, writer after writer, speaker after speaker punctuated his remarks with allusions to the classics and cast himself by pseudonym and direct reference in class­ ical roles that he thought appropriate to his particular situation. An analysis of the allusions colonials used...

...; but the only unity in the poem is the multifarious life of the soul. That soul does walk and climb yet the poem begins with ‘‘turn’’ 6848 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 103:1 / sheet 200 of 283 , an allusion to the Ash Wednesday liturgy...

... its value. It should be apparent that this short essay raises a good many issues, not necessarily related. Another is the nature of literary allusions. Do we need to recognize them? By a not altogether fair selection of the allusions in The Waste Land, they indicate that we do not. We do need to know...

... strand strung with brilliant beads of allusion, of anecdote, of minute detail. One phase of Carlyle s use of detail is imaginative allusion. As a reader Carlyle had despoiled all literature; he once boasted that while at Craigenputtock he had read everything; and Past and Present is a mosaic of allusion...

...Josephine Waters Bennett Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Topicality and the Date of the Court Production of Twelfth Night Josephine Waters Bennett Topicality is a form of metaphorical, or allegorical, allusion difficult to interpret because it involves and indeed depends upon...

... in November, 1703. Accordingly, Mr. Ehrenpreis interprets an allusion in the Dedi­ cation of A Tale to Lord Somers, the italicized phrase, a late Reign usually taken as a reference to the reign of William III as alluding to the trial of the seven Anglican bishops in June, 1688, in the reign of James II...

... train of thought, in that there is no need to be explicit about the references that it makes. When we think or speak, we understand ourselves through partial expression or simple allusion. Celine s last novels are thus studded with a seeming infinity of references, both brief and elliptical, which...

... particularly, in the nar­ rator s head and in his son s. Calling the ghost Phaedrus is an especially powerful kind of metaphor a metaphorical allusion (as distinguished from a topical or personal allusion). By using this one word a host of possible meanings are evoked in the reader s mind, all of which...

... will be apparent to anyone who has pondered any segment of early American intellectual history. In politics alone, writer after writer, speaker after speaker punctuated his remarks with allusions to the classics and cast himself by pseudonym and direct reference in class­ ical roles that he thought appropriate...

... differ with him. Similarly, the allusion to the Contrat social as a noble creation (p. 304) will not meet ac­ ceptance in many quarters. Of course Rousseau and his writings are variously regarded by readers. Professor Green considers him a genius. Even so, his critical attitude is never in abeyance...

..., and allusions have been provided to a remarkable degree of completeness.1 The editors diligence is perhaps most nicely illus­ trated by their note to Boswell s comment at the end of the entry for May 8, 1783: 1 do not recollect where 1 passed this evening. [editorial note: He had passed at least part...

... a neglected allusion in The Sacred Fount, traced it down, and fixed it fast in such a way that there is no longer any ambiguity to the meaning of the novel, which has been second only to The Turn of the Screw as the subject of critical theorizing and contention. James s allu­ sion is the exclusive king...