...Christopher Pye Focusing on Shakespeare's Winter's Tale , the essay counters Carl Schmitt's claim that Absolutism represents an ideal conjunction of the monarch's creative and legislative acts. It argues that early modern theater conveys the problematic character of the relation between law...

...James Carter 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 James Carter A Tale of Two Temples: Nation, Region, and Religious Architecture in Harbin, 1928–1998 Harbin is located on the upper reaches of theSungariRiver,andisagatheringplace...

... . The Great Transformation . Boston : Beacon . Nancy Fraser Feminism’s Two Legacies: A Tale of Ambivalence Second-wave feminism was born from the worldwide explosion of emancipatory energies in the 1960s. In those years...

...Asada Akira; Kyoto Selden Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Asada Akira Infantile Capitalism and Japan s Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale ^\llow me to talk semi-extemporaneously because I am not familiar with the aca­ demic customs of American Japanology, and because above all else...

...Janet Staiger Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Janet Staiger Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real I n the first sentence of his review of The Re­ turn ofMartin Guerre,' Vincent Canby writes: This is, as they say, a true story. 2 Given con­ temporary...

...William G. Leary Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 A Tale of Two Titles: Jean Stafford s "Caveat Emptor William G. Leary Writers, like their editors and publishers, take titles seriously, but for dif­ ferent reasons. Editors and publishers want titles that sell. Writers want...

...John Seelye Hawthorne’s Secret: An Un-Told Tale . By Young Philip . Boston : David R. Godine Publishers , 1984 . Pp. 3 , 183 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 3ii modest quantity, erratic quality, and common biases of the existing...

...Svetlana Boym Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Svetlana Boym Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin s Fairy Tale to Molotov s Lacquer Box In the last years of the Soviet Union a Mos­ cow journalist observed: The unique Rus­ sian character is shaped by Russian bread lines...

...Mody C. Boatright Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 THE TALL TALE IN TEXAS MODY C. BOATRIGHT THE pioneers who came to Texas to found there a cattle industry that eventually extended from the Rio Grande to the Big* Bow, brought with them from the older Southwest a large body...

...Wendell H. Stephenson The Cherokee Strip: A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood . By James Marquis . New York : The Viking Press , 1945 . Pp. 294 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 400 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Cherokee Strip: A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood...

...F. Elaine Penninger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Chaucer s Knight s Tale and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in The Canterbury Tales F. Elaine Penninger Among the small body of opinions about the Knight s Tale with which the rational mind can scarcely argue...

...Russell A. Fraser POLITICAL PROPHECY IN THE PILGRIM S TALE Russell A. Fraser FOR THE skimble-skamble stuff of Owen Glendower, Shake­ speare s Harry Hotspur cared nothing. Rather was he angered With telling of the moldwarp and the ant Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, And of a dragon...

...Herman Salinger The Teller in the Tale ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1967 , $5.95 Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Book Reviews 281 Anglo-American diplomacy and the previous humiliations he had suf­ fered at the hands of President Roosevelt...

...Arlin Turner The Twice-Told Tales . By Hawthorne Nathaniel . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , [ 1974 ]. Pp. xi , 637 . $21.00 . Mosses from an Old Manse . By Hawthorne Nathaniel . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , [ 1974 ]. Pp. x , 664 . $21.00...

...Arlin Turner The Works of Stephen Crane . Edited by Bowers Fredson . Charlottesville : The University Press of Virginia . Volume V , Tales of Adventure . With an introduction by Levenson J. C. . [ 1970 .] Pp. cxcv , 242 . $15.00 . Volume VI , Tales of War...

...Jerome Christensen Jerome Christensen Perversion, Parody, and Cultural Hegemony: Lord Byron s Oriental Tales [Byron] has no light, cannot lead us from the past to the future. Matthew Arnold, Poetry of Byron Oh! laughter for the Page that would reflect To future times the face of what now...

... frustrating. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM J. COOPER, JR. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 551. $39-50. In import as well as physical size, V. A. Kolve s book makes a major contri­ bution...

...Lee Patterson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Lee Patterson No man his reson herde : Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Aux yeux de l historien, la revolte agraire apparait aussi inseparable du regime seigneurial que, par exemple...

...Edward H. Davidson Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales . By Thompson G. R. . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1973 . Pp. xv , 254 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly ern. Rawson s analysis...

...Louis J. Budd The Devil’s Pretty Daughter and Other Ozark Folk Tales . By Randolph Vance . New York : Columbia University Press , 1955 . Pp. xvi , 239 . $3.75 . Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties . By Lueders Edward . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1955...