...Elmo Howell The Snopes Dilemma: Faulkner’s Trilogy . By Watson James Gray . Coral Gables : University of Miami Press , 1968 . Pp. 242 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 430 The South Atlantic Quarterly an interplay of continuity and change in Northern...

...Walter Sullivan Man in Motion: Faulkner’s Trilogy . By Beck Warren . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1961 . Pp. 203 . $6.00 , cloth; $1.75 , paper. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book Reviews 287 same time it places Lafcadio Hearn s passion for Japan...

... created a character so swathed in am­ biguity that the author must himself officially redress a wrong done him.1 There is certainly no instance of similar confusion earlier in Cary. All the novels before the last trilogy manage to establish values without any equivocation whatever. Fundamental disagree­...

... of patriotism, national identity, and social responsibility. Unfortu­ nately, since the publication of these works too few have been willing to pick up the gauntlet. The Black Flame: A Trilogy has frustrated many of its readers since its publication in the late 1950s and early 1960s.1 It also frustrated its...

... their content, and thus an accurate and readable biography has brought him back to this new age of Pinkertons, Percival Lowells, and Koizumi Yakumo s. BALL STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE ALFRED H. MARKS Man in Motion: Faulkner s Trilogy. By Warren Beck. Madison: Uni­ versity of Wisconsin Press, 1961. Pp. 203. $6.00...

... of the GDR s most prestigious publishing houses, Aufbau-Verlag and Mitteldeutscher Verlag, published a series of novels based on recent German history: Anna Seghers s Die Toten bleibenjung/The Dead Stay Young; Hans Marchwitza s trilogy Die Kumiaks, Die Heimkehr der Kumiaks, and Die Kumiaks und ihre Kinder...

... passionate defender of Sacco and Vanzetti has long been one of the older voices of American conservatism. The District of Co­ lumbia trilogy, which seems to contrast so sharply with U.S.A., was begun over twenty years ago, and his key historical study, The Ground We Stand On, was published in 1941. Still...

..., the two plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame, the trilogy and one other novel, Mercier and Camier, the thirteen Texts for Nothing, and four short stories three of which are published in English as Stories and in French as Nouvelles. The fourth story in this group, First Love (Premier Amour), was withheld...

... borne hundreds of English and American readers in the past few years through the nine hundred and ninety-nine unorches­ trated pages of Mr. J. R. R. Tolkien s trilogy, The Lord of the Rin%s?x A critic who had successfully resisted its enchantment could quite accurately describe it as an enormously...

... War at Sea, Volume II. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961. Pp. xx, 490. $6.00. In the second volume of his proposed trilogy on the naval history of the Civil War, Mr. Jones leaves blue water and spends most of his time on turbid, fetid rivers. And rightfully so, because regardless of the valor...

...: Donjuanes (1986) winner of a Casa de las Americas Prize Fabriles (1988), and El suplicio de Tdntalo (otra vez) (1994). He has also published three collections of poetry and several plays. lisandro otero, diplomat, journalist, and novelist, is the author ofa trilogy of Cuban historical novels: La situation...

... the fictional Memoirs of George Sherston, a trilogy whose protagonist has a great deal in common with Sassoon, and three volumes of straight but reticent autobiography; in both trilogies the pre-1914 life of his privileged class, irretrievably lost by the war, is gracefully evoked and commemorated. His book...

..., there are striking examples of this in the present century: Maxim Gorky s pitying account of a Tsarist police informer (The Life of a Useless Man Sholokhov s Cossack nationalist, Grigor Melekhov (in the Don trilogy), and the recalcitrant villagers in his collectivization novel, Virgin Soil Upturned;2 Solzhenitsyn s...

... struggle. Although the privileges associated with passing into white space are not im- material to the ‘‘passing’’ protagonists, Jane Kock and Yusuf ‘‘Joe’’ Malik in The Z Town Trilogy or Omar Khan/Oscar Kahn in Kafka’s...

... final section analyzes three works that explore poetry’s pre- and post-9/11 response to traumatic loss and disaster: Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” Hilda Doolittle’s Trilogy, and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days. To begin with, no traditional poetic form employs repetition as its...

... in the trilogy Das TLaiserreich, a devastating attack on the era of William II of Germany. The first volume, Der Untertan, withheld from publica­ tion until the end of World War I, stresses one of Mann s favorite themes: the portrayal of a tyrant through the study of his subjects. Diederich Hessling, whose name...

... time. A second defect of this trilogy, and one more evident in the most recent volume, is that important source materials were neglected with consequent errors or misapprehen­ sions. It is unfortunate that this is not a revised edition, correcting the in­ evitable errors of the first editions, rather...

... the late plays, concentrating on major works grouped in trilogies and tetralogies that concentrate and clarify the various phases. Professor Turco s approach has several virtues. He does not imagine he is dealing with a philosophy. His argument assumes that Shaw s ideas are not separate from his...

... of them repeating the central argument that the Studs Lonigan trilogy is still worth reading; a recent essay in American Quarterly tells us that Lonigan is about the failure of history in mass society. But generally Farrell has no great place in current critical esteem. Studs Lonigan and possibly...

..., 177. $3.50. Puzzled, as many of us have been, by the confusions of contemporary literature, Professor Guerard has written not just another book on the kindly and traditional Hardy, but the first volume of a trilogy on Hardy, Conrad, and Gide to tell us something of what happened to the rea­ listic...