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Of Moose And Men (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Wildlife," by Richard Ford. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

The Man Who Puts Out The World's Oil-Well Fires (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "An American Hero: The Red Adair Story," by Philip Singerman. New York: Little Brown & Co., 1990.

Metaphoric Worlds: Conceptions Of A Romantic Nature [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

Samuel R. Levin's Metaphoric Worlds is an ambitious book. The author proposes a controversial theory of metaphor motivated by a bold reading of Wordsworth's poetry but his theory sometimes falls short of the poetry it is designed to explicate. His respect for Wordsworth, however, redeems these occasional lapses.

Patterns And Patterning: A Study Of Four Poems By George Herbert (Book Review), Sidney Gottlieb

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Book review by Sidney Gottlieb.

Westerweel, B. (1984). Patterns and patterning: A study of four poems by George Herbert. Amsterdam: Rodopi; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: distributed by Humanities Press.

ISBN 9789062039456

Costly Monuments: Representations Of The Self In George Herbert's Poetry (Book Review), Sidney Gottlieb

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Book review by Sidney Gottlieb.

Harman, Barbara Leah. Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1982.

ISBN 9780674174658

Blake, Hegel And Dialectic [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

According to David Punter, "Blake's dialectic and Hegel's share a number of crucial features" (p. 11), making Hegel's Phenomenology the "closest parallel to [Blake's] work" (p. 17). By emphasizing progression through contraries, both Blake and Hegel transform the dialectical tradition that they presumably inherit from Heraclitus, Giordano Bruno, and Jakob Böhme, all of whom Punter analyzes in his opening chapter. Subsequent chapters trace the similarities that Punter finds among such works as the Phenomenology, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The Four Zoas. Although Punter calls his comparison of Blake and Hegel "important and fruitful" (p. …

The Reader In The Text: Essays On Audience And Interpretation [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

The Reader in the Text is a useful collection of essays on an important topic in contemporary criticism—the role of readers in interpreting literary works. Contributors include some of the most widely-read writers on the subject (Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Gerald Prince, Norman Holland) as well as several critics less familiar to American readers (Jacques Leenhardt and Karlheinz Stierle, among many others). Susan Suleiman adds a helpful introduction on the "varieties of audience-oriented criticism" and Inge Crosman provides an annotated bibliography.