...James E. Evans Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Comedy and the "Tragic Complexion of Tom Jones James E. Evans Tony Richardson s 1963 film Tom Jones contains an image not explicitly authorized by Fielding s novel: Tom, with a noose around his neck, being hanged. Fortuitously, he...

...D. Vance Smith D. Vance Smith Plague, Panic Space, and the Tragic Medieval Household Death is just a place that we have looked too deeply at, not into. Iain Crichton Smith, Argument What is death? A tragic mask. Epictetus Tragedy, Michel de Certeau says, describes the passage from a spatial...

...Lisa A. Freeman Lisa A. Freeman Tragic Flaws: Genre and Ideology in Lillo s London Merchant In the history of theater, no dramatic genre of any period has been accounted a failure as con­ sistently and persistently as eighteenth-century tragedy. For the most part, twentieth-century critics have...

...Tom McCall Tom McCall Liquid Politics: Toward a Theorization of Bourgeois Tragic Drama Take but degree away, Ulysses warns in Shake­ speare s Troilus and Cressida, and chaos would reign the bounded waters should lift their bosom higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe...

...Richard F. Rosser Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Soviets and Vietnam: A Tragic Miscalculation? Richard F. Rosser Vietnam has been the major foreign-policy problem of the United States for almost a decade. Therefore, it has become a major but not necessarily the major...

...Eudora Ramsay Richardson Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 A TRAGIC ACCIDENT Eudora Ramsay Richardson HE FIRST Negroes imported to America had the status of X indentured servants, not slaves. Their arrival was an accident. Anthony Johnson, himself a Negro, was the first American...

...Maurice Beebe Beyond the Tragic Vision: The Quest for Identity in the Nineteenth Century . By Peckham Morse . New York : George Braziller , 1962 . Pp. 380 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 150 The South Atlantic Quarterly the Roman Catholic whose...

...Charles R. Young Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE CRUSADES: A TRAGIC EPISODE IN EAST-WEST RELATIONS* Charles R. Young THE PUBLICATION of a comprehensive history of the Cru­ sades by Steven Runciman makes available the first scholarly general history of this subject...

...Loring Baker Walton Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Page missing from archival source 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly of tragic tone. Hence, as Mr. Falk examines the five plays he studies the element of renunciation. Oedipus the King is analyzed in terms of the many...

...Hyatt H. Waggoner The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson’s Tragic Poetry . By Griffith Clark . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1964 . Pp. viii , 308 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 151 The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson s Tragic Poetry...

...Dale B. J. Randall Tragic Patterns in Jacobean and Caroline Drama . By Champion Larry S. . Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press , 1977 . Pp. 247 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 269 have a major voice, perhaps the dominant voice...

...Walter Sullivan Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 THE TRAGIC DESIGN OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM! WALTER SULLIVAN NO NOVELIST of our age is more conscious of the movement of time than William Faulkner, and nowhere is this conscious­ ness more apparent than in the Yoknapatawpha County...

...Paul M. Angle Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Paul M. Angle TRAGIC YEARS The Civil War and Its Commemoration Four years ago the Congress of the United States, by joint res­ olution, established the Civil War Centennial Commission, con­ sisting of twenty-five members...

...Kermit Hunter Eugene O’Neill and the Tragic Tension . By Falk Doris V. . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1958 . Pp. 201 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Eeweius 491 references in the text to novels, characters, and persons have been...

...Helen Bevington W. B. Yeats, the Tragic Phase: A Study of the Last Poems . By Koch Vivienne . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1952 . Pp. 151 . $2.25 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 157 larly negatived by his accounts, often vivid and often...

... Northern industrialists and workers to Southern freedpeople, planters, and poor whites, and that the overthrow of Reconstruction was a tragic defeat for democratic ideals, both within the United States and across the globe. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available...

...Bently Spang This essay is my account of the early stages of the creation of the 2014 drawing and video installation titled On Fire . Using a detailed and unmediated first-person point of view, I attempt to humanize a tragic event that the viewer often fails to identify with and process fully when...

... pressures and structural crises the country faces. While the Right mobilizes racial melancholia to conjure up the stability of the past, significant segments of the political spectrum—including the Left—have long been demobilized by the stranglehold of a form of tragic optimism produced by a post-1991...

...Michael Valdez Moses Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Michael Valdez Moses Agon in the Marketplace: The Mayor of Casterbridge as Bourgeois Tragedy Even bourgeois and pseudo-Marxist vulgar sociol­ ogy have not got round to inventing the sub-genre of the tragic novel. Georg...