...Janice Haney-Peritz Victorian Noon: English Literature in 1850 . By Dawson Carl . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1979 . Pp. xv , 268 . $16.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 BOOKS Victorian Noon: English Literature in 1850...

...Reed Merrill Ideology and the Individual Darkness at Noon Forty Years Later Reed Merrill So foolish is history. Michael Polanyi Tout le systeme s effondre aussitot que vous introduisez le simple respect pour I individu. Arthur Koestler Anthony Burgess says that Arthur Koestler virtually invented...

...Neil Lerner Neil Lerner ‘‘Look at that big hand move along Clocks, Containment, and Music in High Noon There was something timely—and timeless—about [High Noon], something that had a direct bearing on life today...

...? By presenting mood and form as facts, traditions, and archetypes, Vic­ torian Noon avoids answering this question. Perhaps a confrontation with the historicism that Dawson s Postscript relegates to late Vic­ torian culture is necessary; after all, as early as Sartor Resartus (1833) historicism challenges...

... it baldly. The first dozen stanzas are introductory: the one perfect but transient hour of silence of a summer noon producing the trance. I feel the divine powers all about me, in the mystery of light and heat, hardly knowing if this feeling is rapture or fear, terror or peace; for the great god Pan has...

... scape: Noon. Here, as he seems to do in other pictures such as Cottage in a Cornfield (1833), Constable paints the sun directly overhead, out of the viewer s sight. It is the peak of the working day, and, appropriately, Con­ stable places the hay wain in the middle of the picture, making it his humble...

... andthefellofnight. High Summer Noon Dark one, living at the edge of all I know, indulge me now. The light has come in little buttercups to this deep lawn...

... of the deluded Communists who, after lacerating mental and spiritual conflicts, finally decide to leave the movement; they have produced no novel comparable in psychological density and dramatic impact to Darkness at Noon. The best we have in this field is The Middle of the Journey, by Lionel Trilling...

... to which I was assigned, I would have starved had it not been for the week ends spent at home and the food packages sent me during the week by a thoughtful mother. Fortunately, the boarding week was short. The teacher was not sup­ posed to arrive for her first meal before Monday noon; preferably not until...

... Island a little before noon, when these boats come in. While the men are buying butter, crackers, and other supplies from the store on the wharf and taking ice from the ice­ house, let us see what their cargo is. It is a fine sight: the beautiful lake whitefish, the sparkling trout, the graceful pickerel...

... Island a little before noon, when these boats come in. While the men are buying butter, crackers, and other supplies from the store on the wharf and taking ice from the ice­ house, let us see what their cargo is. It is a fine sight: the beautiful lake whitefish, the sparkling trout, the graceful pickerel...

... pictorially represents the eternal now verbally articulated in the first three stanzas), tends to confound that eternality by insisting, via the shadows, that it is high noon the precise time of the Fall in Paradise Lost.29 More­ over, what David Erdman characterizes as the immense libidinal energy ofthe...

... came the important sound of a woodpecker drilling a hole in the trunk of a rugged old elm tree. Far down the valley, several buzzards glided in large lazy circles. And from somewhere came the high-pitched caws of blackbirds. At last it was noon. The sun stood still at the zenith, and heat waves made...

... around noon only. But certain of them incline to patronize the cafeteria at hours quite distant from noon. This presents a great moral problem. It would scarcely be sporting to forbid all non-noonhour patronage of the cafeteria, for surely no one should be dis­ couraged from spending money...

... with, but such works as Thieves in the Night, Darkness at Noon, and Scum of the Earth contained a great deal of interesting material. When one writes about Soviet Russia, one is expected to be profound. The nonsense of The Yogi and the Commissar got a fairly wide hearing. ...

... from reporting to punditry. This was also true of the late Louis Adamic. His Native's Return was much better than any of his later works. Mr. Koestler was, of course, badly bitten with punditry to start with, but such works as Thieves in the Night, Darkness at Noon, and Scum of the Earth contained...

..., for example, Arthur Koestler s Rubashov (in Darkness at Noon) is taken into custody, the given of his everyday life is radically altered.22 He undergoes what Deleuze and Guattari call an incorporeal" transformation and becomes a political prisoner.23 When Rubashov says I in prison, he realizes...

..., Adrian Mitchell s anti­ nuclear Fifteen Million Plastic Bags is simply scary. But Kingsley Amis says it all in The Last War : One killer or many? Was it a gang, or all-against-all? Somebody must have known. The sun comes in and finds himself alone, felt sick, / And went to bed at noon. Phyllis...

..., Mystique," 3. 34. Mississippian, 10 November 1950. 262 The South Atlantic Quarterly from the Union, a parade at noon, endoctrination of Yankee students, a salute at twilight to the Confederate dead, flag lowering and an evening pep rally. Grill mint juleps, the appearance of the Ku Klux Kian, and a combo...

... the pattern of Psalmists and Apostles, in the day with David, in the night with Paul and Silas, winter and summer, in heat and in cold, in peace and in danger, in a prison or in a cathedral, in the dark, in the day-break, at sun-rising, in the fore­ noon, at noon, in the afternoon, at eventide, and on going...