...Maria Tumarkin This essay explores the death of the seventeen-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the first woman during World War II to be named a Hero of the Soviet Union, as one of the foundational narratives of Soviet necropedagogy. Far from claiming the Soviet case study as historically singular...

...David Lee Miller Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 David Lee Miller The Death of the Modern: Gender and Desire in Marlowe s Hero and Leander . . . simulations are undertaken in full awareness of the absence of the life they contrive to repre­ sent, and hence they may skillfully...

...J. M. Armistead The English Hero, 1660-1800 . Edited by Folkenflik Robert . Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London and Toronto : Associated University Presses , 1982 . Pp. 7 , 230 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 236 The South Atlantic...

...Irving David Suss Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 YEATSIAN DRAMA AND THE DYING HERO Irving David Suss EATS WAS not a great dramatist; his plays are far from the ± best that Ireland has produced. Yet, by the weight of their poetry and the intensity of their feeling his plays...

...H. H. Kidd Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 IS DICKENS STILL A HERO? H. H. KIDD Purdue University RESEARCH WORKERS have investigated thus far only a few of Dickens literary sources. They have failed to go further for several reasons: Dickens, unlike George Eliot...

...Merton L. Dillon Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero . By Stewart James Brewer . Baton Rouge and London : Louisiana State University Press , 1986 . Pp. xiii , 356 . $35.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 342 The South Atlantic Quarterly Wendell Phillips: Liberty...

...Michael Kreyling Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Lee Agonistes: The Southern Hero in the "Mid-Passage Michael Kreyling I The Agrarian manifesto, I ll Take My Stand, was not the only instrument by which certain Southern writers strove to redirect the course of American history...

...William Bedford Clark Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Warren s Audubon The Artist as Hero William Bedford Clark We have seen much remarkably handsome scenery, but nothing at all comparing with Catlin s descriptions; his book must, after all, be altogether a humbug. Poor devil...

...William Geoffrey Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 PAUL VALERY: HERO OF THE MIND WILLIAM GEOFFREY HE DAZZLING MIND of Paul Valery, greatest French poet and prose-writer of the century, is extinguished, but its di­ verse and astonishing operations will not cease to illuminate...

...Dixon Wecter Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE HERO AND THE AMERICAN ARTIST DIXON WECTER ODAY, in the spirit of a nation at war, one of the words of JL the hour whether in dispatches from the front, or in evoca­ tion of our great leaders from the past is the word hero...

..., the great oceans, calls everyone to high adventure. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON URSULA LAMB The Comic Hero. By Robert M. Torrance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 346. $15.00. This is an important addition to the body of criticism exploring the idea that comedy derives its fundamental...

...Phillip B. Anderson The Boswellian Hero . By Dowling William C. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1979 . Pp. xvi , 202 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 336 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Boswellian Hero. By William C. Dowling. Athens...

...Charles Richard Sanders The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism . By Rosenberg Philip . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1974 . Pp. [ xv ], 235 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 133 The Seventh Hero: Thomas...

...Wiiliam H. Gass The Absurd Hero in American Fiction . By Galloway David D. . Austin and London : University of Texas Press , 1966 . Pp. xv , 257 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 BOOKS The Absurd Hero in American Fiction. By David D. Gallo­ way. Austin...

...Theodore L. Gross Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Hero in Retrospect Theodore L. Gross The revival of interest in F. Scott Fitzgerald s fiction seems to de­ velop from the author s concentration on lost idealism, on the death of uniqueness, as much...

...Gloria R. Dussinger Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Faulkner s Isaac McCaslin as Romantic Hero Manque Gloria R. Dussinger I Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841 defined the transcendentalist by pointing to his peculiar affliction double consciousness: the tran­ scendentalist is aware...

...Walter Sullivan Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts: The Artist as Hero in Fiction from Goethe to Joyce . By Beebe Maurice . New York : New York University Press , 1964 . Pp. vii , 323 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 415 other their monographs...

...Donald C. Gordon Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarterly AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND ITS HEROES Donald C. Gordon WHEN NED KELLY, bandit and bushranger, the Jesse James of Australia, died at the hands of the hangman in 1880, perhaps the thought most unlikely to cross...

... shelves of biblical critique without looking back. On one reading, Paul emerges in each of these texts as the unhailed hero of his own story, each story reflecting uncannily their authors' own commitments and absorptions. But, of course, the fascination with Paul is more than a narcissistic indulgence...

.... Hence the opinion that the hero of Maud is merely another Werther, and Tennyson a latter-day escapist wal­ lowing indiscriminately in Rousseauistic sentimentality and Byronic cynicism fraught with moral inconsistencies which testify to his wellmeaning but shallow intellect. It is the purpose...