Literature: history and criticism

Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert's art in relation to his tragic themes.

Viewing thematic writing as the differentiation and elaboration of cultural knowledge, P.

In the absence of tape recordings from antiquity, we have a limited knowledge of how classical Latin prose or verse sounded as it was rendered orally.

The author traces the development of the theme of Krishna as butter thief from its earliest appearance in literature and art until the present.

The author deals with the shock of World War I as it was registered in the work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Herbert Read, and David Jones.

Through a study of the actress' films, records and writings, Gerda Taranow reconstructs the rigorously developed artistry that lay behind the superb performances.

The oddly diverse character of James Fenimore Cooper's writings and activities has led many critics to view his career as fragmentary.

Most of these letters are 'finds,' never previously published and serving to deepen and to give order to our awareness of Ford's literary activities and involvements.

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Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel.

This book combines an analysis of The Faerie Queene's, total form with an exposition of its allegorical content.

In spite of steady growth in popularity, Pinter's plays have continued to elude adequate critical appraisal.

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his reading of Ariosto's chivalric romance Orlando furioso.

A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre.

Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends.

The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry"e; and his 1965 essay on Dante.

Collected here are fourteen articles by one of the leading Renaissance scholars of our age.

Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life.

Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the 1920s.

Richard Cross assesses the French writer's impact on his Irish counterpart through a comparison of tone, theme, and technique in their major writings.

Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.

This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on 18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to and by Sheridan.

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays.

Since his death in October 1970, Jean Giono's reputation as a major French novelist has steadily increased.

Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of these plays and of their considerable influence outside Italy has previously appeared.

These short plays by the great Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg reveal, in brilliant and sparking miniature, his genius for comedy.

One of the leading critics of our time, R.

Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Renaissance.

In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noel Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual.

"e;The importance of Dunseath's study is that it proposes an original interpretation of the allegory of The Faerie Queene, Book V, and a fresh theory of its poetic function.

From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills.

This highly original interpretation of the novel of the French Classical age explores military strategy as a central metaphor in Rousseau's Julie and Emile, Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, and Sade's Les 120 Journees de Sodome.

Presented here are selected critical essays from five volumes of the Poetik und Hermeneutik series published in Germany by the Wilhelm Fink Verlag of Munich.

Searching through journals, almanacs, sermons, tracts, orations, and volumes of verse, Professor Sensabaugh traces Milton's influence on Americans of widely differing talents, interests, and tastes: Cotton Mather, Jonathan Mayhew, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as scores of others.

Scholars have often felt that Books III and IV of Spenser's Faerie Queene were loosely, almost carelessly, structured.

In a fascinating study of what, during the last decade, rekindled an avid readership, Judith Wilt proposes a new theory of Gothic fiction that challenges its reputation as merely a formula to be outgrown or a stock of images for the creation of terror.

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The author begins with a biography exploring the moral and aesthetic implications of Wu's life as a guest-poet"e; patronized by officials and aristocrats, and continues with a reconstruction of the historical and literary context needed for modern readers to grasp his poetic techniques.

Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination.

In this third of five volumes tracing the history of Japanese literature through Mishima Yukio, Jin'ichi Konishi portrays the high medieval period.

In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B.

James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family, nation, and religion.

How does Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman sustain the values of old traditions and at the same time meet the challenge of contemporary Victorian experience is the subject of Professor Levine's book.

The half-dozen generations from 100 B.

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege.

These essays are, according to Marjorie Nicholson, "e;the most illuminating articles we have on the important subject of prose style.

In this radical reinterpretation, Mr.

In this highly perceptive and original study Evert traces Keats' formulation in his early work of mythography of the imagination founded on Apollo through its radical qualification in his later work.

Professor Levy explores the ritual origins of Japanese verse, the impact of Chinese and Korean literary influence on the seventh-century Court, and the rhetorical deification of the imperial family as the condition under which Hitomaro would begin his career as a Court poet.

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