...Louis J. Budd The Growth of American Literature . Edited by Cady Edwin Harrison Hoffman Frederick J. Pearce Roy Harvey . Vols. I and II . New York : American Book Company , 1956 . Pp. xv , 911 ; xix , 747 . $6.00 each. Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Prose and Poetry...

...G. S. Rousseau Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Perils of Articulation: A Review Essay of Maynard Mack s Alexander Pope and The Prose Works ofAlexander Pope, Volume II, Rosemary Cowler (ed.) G. S. Rousseau By the time this review appears, Professor Mack s book1 will have begun...

...Alistair M. Duckworth The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose . By Uphaus Robert W. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1979 . Pp. 160 . $14.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass...

...Doris Betts Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Brief Prose, Long Subjects Doris Betts No one has better described the vocation of a short story writer than Anton Chekhov, writing in a letter, I can speak briefly on long subjects. When I quote this at the first meeting of a story...

...J. M. Beatty, Jr. Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Arthur Hugh Clough As Revealed in His Prose* J. M. Beatty, Jr. Goucher College Seventy-five years ago in the conflict for freedom of thought, the English intellectuals fought their battles among the educated classes and carried...

...H. E. Harman Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 Joel Chandler Harris: The Prose Poet of the South H. E. Harman Author of "Idle Dreams of an Idle Day Born a poet, though choosing to give expression to his over­ flowing soul through the medium of prose, aptly outlines the place...

...Ashbel G. Brice America Is West: An Anthology of Middlewestern Life and Literature . Edited by Flanagan John T. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1945 . Pp. xiv , 677 . $3.75 . The Treasure Chest: An Anthology of Contemplative Prose . Edited by Adams J. Donald...

...Clarence Gohdes A Concordance of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose Writings. Fascicle I . By Eby Edwin Harold . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1949 . Pp. xiii , 256 . $4.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 554 The South Atlantic...

...Anne Kimball Tuell Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 THE PROSE OF MR. BEERBOHM ANNE KIMBALL TUELL To look back over Mr. Beerbohm s prose is not to renounce our hopes for its future. Mr. Beerbohm represents no longer, to be sure, the younger generation knocking at the door...

...Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D. Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 * George Eliot as a Prose Artist By Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in Randolph-Macon College The recent publication of the Life of George Eliot by Leslie Stephen has served to call attention anew to the work...

...Floyd Stovall Shelley’s Prose; or, The Trumpet of a Prophecy . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Clark David Lee . Albuquerque : The University of New Mexico Press , 1954 . Pp. 385 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 592 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...P. F. Baum The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier . By Williamson George . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , [ 1951 ]. Pp. 377 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 339 the volume Mr. Allen confesses that he advised...

.... 103 . $2.00 . Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: Rendered into Modern English Prose . By Lumiansky R. M. . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1952 . Pp. xii , 217 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 478 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...G. H. Carrithers Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne . By Webber Joan . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1963 . Pp. 227 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne...

...Lewis Leary The Prose of Philip Freneau . Selected and edited by Marsh Philip M. . New Brunswick, N. J. : The Scarecrow Press , 1955 . Pp. 596 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 259 The Prose of Philip Freneau. Selected and edited by Philip M...

...Laurence Stapleton Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 MARIANNE MOORE AND THE ELEMENT OF PROSE Laurence Stapleton IN ONE of his most agreeable essays, Hazlitt observed that the prose style of poets, though sometimes good, nay excellent is never the better, and is generally...

...Judith C. Levinson The Eloquent “I”: Style and Self in Seventeenth-Century Prose . By Webber Joan . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1968 . Pp. xii , 298 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Book Reviews 271 The Eloquent I : Style and Self...

... of talking about race in the political and public sphere. Morrison's letter endorsing Barack Obama's presidential candidacy stands as a critical example of how such prose can effectively operate, and it models an increasingly ubiquitous form of communication between black intellectuals and politicians...

... the Ripper in Guy Debord and Jorn's book Mémoires . The second half of the essay argues that one of Debord's sources, Baudelaire's prose poem “Solitude,” presents a concept—“insinuation”—that offers a model for rethinking détournement as something other than the masculinized overcoming of spectacular...

... and terrain of segregation. I then analyze how McPherson’s short story “A Solo Song: For Doc” (1968) and Rankine’s prose poem Citizen (2014) and video-essay “Situation 5” (ca. 2011) figure black countermoves challenging the post–civil rights imperative to embody black progress. Through somatic acts...