...Roberto Fernández Retamar; Nancy Westrate Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Roberto Fernandez Retamar Cuba Defended: Countering Another Black Legend To the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, includ­ ing those of the so-called classical period, were far from perfect; the Egyptians...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. Tom’s Town, Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend . By Reddig William . Philadelphia and New York : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1947 . Pp. 394 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 312 The South Atlantic Quarterly Bend on the Cahaba...

...Al-Tony Gilmore Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Myth, Legend, and Folklore of Joe Louis: The Impression of Sport on Society Al-Tony Gilmore In recent years the study of sport and society has examined a variety of issues. Little work has been done, however...

...P. F. Baum King Arthur Today: The Arthurian Legend in English and American Literature, 1901-1953 . By Starr Nathan Comfort . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1954 . Pp. xvii , 218 . $4.50 (paper, $3.50 ). Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book...

...Harry R. Stevens Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 The Ben Lilly Legend . By Dobie J. Frank . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1950 . Pp. xv , 237 . $3.50 . Book Reviews 457 time and circumstance have hurled. It authorized this volume to com­ memorate its...

...George V. Taylor Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 SCHOLARSHIP and LEGEND William Henry Hoyt s research on the Ney Controversy George V. Taylor Was Michel Ney, the Napoleonic marshal, executed at Paris in 1815? Or did he die in 1846 as the North Carolina schoolmaster, Peter...

...Russell A. Fraser Book Reviews 5li Classical Myth and Legend in Renaissance Dictionaries. By DeWitt T. Starnes and Ernest William Talbert. Chapel Hill: Uni­ versity of North Carolina Press, 1955. Pp. 517. $7.50. In compiling their study of the transmuting of the esoteric into the commonplace...

...Margaret Davis Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 GREAT DISMAL PICTURES* MARGARET DAVIS Landscape and Legend GREEN SEA, Bear Garden, Bear Quarter run the names of some of Great Dismal s remoter settlements. Sun­ ray, Smoky-town, Magnolia rim its edge. Corapeake, a high point...

...Winona LaDuke; Deborah Cowen Infrastructure has long been central to the destruction of Indigenous life and the making of settler colonial futurity. Infrastructure constitutes the body of the Wiindigo—the beast of Anishinaabe legend. Roads and rails, pipelines and dams, prisons and borders have all...

.... His particular kind of sincerity, as he realized, had been shaped by the country of his birth, and his con­ cerns and passions were not in essence different from those revealed in the literature of past times, which had grown out of the same phil­ osophic and psychological tradition. The Irish legends...

... to this reader that the varying metaphors and seemingly dis­ connected comparisons of The Waste Land are all variations of one metaphor and one comparison, a fact which would seem to point to the presence of the sacramental point of view. That basic metaphor involves the Waste Land of the Arthurian legend. Eliot...

... legend has become part and parcel of our intellectual heritage. Time and again men have marveled at the hold it still has on the human mind as a problem in prehistory, as a symbol of lost perfection, or as a wish-fulfillment dream of a new Golden Age. Suppose that it never was anything but a piece...

... or motion picture. The modern sketches in musical reviews still resemble the old legends, although the obvious addition of sophistication often spoils the naivete of the earlier fables, which concentrated on humorous story, whereas the twentieth-century authors too often concentrate on double entendre. Less...

... Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 NOTES AND NEWS Those who are interested in the people of the distant pos­ sessions of the United States will welcome the volume of Legends of Old Honolulu collected and translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. Westervelt. This is the first...

... of action, the man of fun, the man of fury. The myths began, mushroomed, then finally claimed each knight as a victim. Today we ve grown tired of their books, but remain fascinated by their legends. Even in death Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe magnified these legends. The shotgun blast in the mouth quick...

... of Faerie, a realm not unvisited by Keats and Shakespeare and Spenser and many others. Tolkien tells us that even as a child he had an almost compulsive desire to recreate Norse and Greek myths in his own words. Later his serious scholarly work convinced him that many of these legends were sketchy, had gaps...

... in the latter two works were if not that in Troilus And Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, and The Knight's Tale she receives equally shabby treatment, being portrayed as potent but at the same time cruel, demanding, and whimsical. Criseyde is admittedly Chaucer s most complex and successful characterization...

..., and his equally fanatic admirers had been told that he resembled everyone from Melville to Proust. With every new account we read of the depressingly familiar legend of Thomas Wolfe. It is almost impossible for a biographer or critic to begin without reviewing it. Despite Wolfe s lack of at­ tention...

.... Notes and News 95 An unusual book in the field of Hawaiian mythology is W. D. Westervelt s Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes. This volume presents not only legends collected and translated by Mr. Westervelt but also several chapters of geological facts regarding the Hawaiian volcanoes and their changes...

... itself this time on a planetary scale. There can be no strong judgment without strong conviction. Our history cannot as yet judge Tojo effectively and will not be capable of doing so until it is infused with a virile legend summing up our own aspirations. We have a legend, that of the growth...