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“Das Reimet Sich Ja Nicht?” Aspects Of Wit In German Gallant Poetry, Lathrop P. Johnson

University of Dayton Review

The gallant period in German poetry stretches from 1680 to 1730, serving as a bridge between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, a transition summarizing the Baroque and anticipating the Enlightenment. The most important impetus for the high point of gallant poetry was the so-called Neukirch Anthology. an immensely popular seven-volume series beginning in 1695. The anthology capitalized on the name and fame of one of the leading Baroque poets, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, publishing his love poetry which had previously had only limited circulation in manuscript form. Each volume of the anthology included sections of "galante" and "verliebte" poems, …

Baudelaire’S “Les Bienfaits De La Lune” And Goethe’S “Erlkönig”, Francis S. Heck

University of Dayton Review

Baudelaire's prose poem "Les Bienfaits de la Lune" is dated 1863. Most critics restrict their commentary of this poem to the fact that the poet was thinking of the young girl, Berthe, of the poem "Les Yeux de Berthe"; Henri Lemaître and Jacques Crépet see a striking similarity between the young girl in "Bienfaits" and the one in a later prose poem, "La Soupe et les Nuages." According to F. W. Leakey, the poet's choice of the Moon as the mythological bestower of gifts might well be so because of the poet's "personal mythology." The interpretation of "Bienfaits," however, contains …

Preachers And Pagans: The Christian Missionary In Joyce Cary’S African Novels, Kathryne S. Mcdorman

University of Dayton Review

In 1963 Professor Robin Winks published a selection of readings entitled British Imperialism: Gold. God. Glory. In his subtitle Winks achieved more than clever alliteration — he demonstrated the significance that mission work claimed as a justification for conquering and maintaining an empire. What had occurred in the New World during the Spanish conquest was repeated by the British in Africa — before the dust of conquest had settled, missionaries had built churches and schools in the new lands. They journeyed the length and breadth of "the dark continent." carrying with them the message of Christ. and indirectly, of the …

The Labyrinth As Myth And Metaphor, Donald Gutierrez

University of Dayton Review

Life is often presented as a line (a path, a road) or sometimes as a circle. But it has also been regarded more imaginatively as a labyrinth or maze. To some, maze patterning might be too restrictive for any broad or deep symbolic purposes. As the 18th-century Lord Kames put it, speaking primarily of garden mazes, "It is a mere conceit, like that of composing verses in the shape of an axe or an egg. The walks and hedges may be agreeable, but in the form of a labyrinth, they serve no end but to puzzle … ." A contemporary …

Block Talk (December 1983), University Of Dayton. Student Development

Block Talk

• Home security over the holidays
• Feature on Mary Robinette, 234 Lowes St.
• 20th Christmas on Campus
• Appeal to show respect and not steal others' Christmas decorations
• Write-up on the first semester of 301 Lowes

Die Schlimmen Buben In Der Gesellschaft: Nestroy's Children As Mirrors Of Society, Roger A. Crockett

University of Dayton Review

A few writers possess the ability to express in a phrase or two an idea to which most of us would less successfully devote pages. Such an artist was Nestroy, and just such an aphorism concerns the relationship between sons and their fathers: "Mir war der verlorene Sohn immer verächtlich, aber nicht deswegen, weil er ein Schweinehirt war, sondern weil er wieder nach Hause gekommen ist" (VI 568). This inversion of the parable's moral expresses the cynicism of one who believed that sons were better off in any condition away from home than under parental domination. Society's norms for morality …

Gargantua And The New Historiography, Richard M. Berrong

University of Dayton Review

One major tenet of much modern Rabelais criticism since Screech and Defaux — and even. in certain ways, since Lefranc — is that the Oeuvres cannot fully be appreciated by the present-day reader until he acquires familiarity with matters known to Rabelais and his intended audience. As shown again most recently by Gerard Defaux, there are "codes culturels" subtending much of the Oeuvres, codes to which Rabelais most definitely was alluding and of which modern readers must therefore be aware if they are to perceive the meanings that Rabelais knew his own readers, familiar with these codes, would derive from …

Otto F. Walter’S Die Verwilderung: Swiss Engagement In The 70’S, Robert Acker

University of Dayton Review

Most students of postwar German literature are probably not well acquainted with the works of the contemporary Swiss author Otto F. Walter. This comes as no surprise, since many of the younger generation of writers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland have been overshadowed by Frisch and Durrenmatt, and Swiss-German authors in general are often unfairly viewed as an unimportant provincial appendage of mainstream German letters. However, Walter is an important Swiss novelist, and in the early sixties, he was prominent in a group of young writers (which included Kurt Marti, Jürg Federspiel, Jörg Steiner and Peter Bichsel) who broke …

The Playas Tudor Propaganda: Bale’S King John And The Authority Of Kings, Robert Duncan

University of Dayton Review

As the drama of John Bale of Suffolk (1495-1563) is an index to the controversies of the Reformation, so is his life an interesting parallel to the major events of that period of English history. He was born ten years after the battle of Bosworth, entered the Carmelite convent at Norwich two years before the accession of Henry VIII, was converted to Protestantism in the year Henry married Anne Boleyn, fled to the continent upon the fall of Cromwell in 1540, returned under Edward VI, and fled again when Mary became queen, only to return once more upon the enthronement …

Epiphanies Through Nature In The Stories Of Kate Chopin, Joyce Coyne Dyer

University of Dayton Review

In many Kate Chopin short stories of the 1890s, among them "Loka" (ApriI 9-10, 1892), "The Story of an Hour" (April 19, 1894), "The Unexpected" (July 18,1895), and "A Morning Walk" (April 1897), scenes of nature mysteriously move characters from confusion to vision. Magically and urgently, these scenes awaken Chopin's men and women. Epiphanies through nature force them to learn, or remember, the central place of the instincts and the desire for freedom in their lives. Loka, Mrs. Mallard, Dorothea, and Archibald, all susceptible to nature's power, gain courage as nature manifests itself to each.

Some Uses Of Irony In Robert Frost’S Poetry, K. E. Marre

University of Dayton Review

That Robert Frost's Yankee image was the result of a long and deep relationship with New England was, for a long time, a commonly held article of faith. Frost, of course, endorsed this view of himself as a Yankee farmer-poet and in fact assiduously cultivated such an image in the early stages of his career — as John Kemp has documented in his book Robert Frost and New England. But Frost adopted the persona of the Yankee farmer-poet not because it was autobiographically accurate but because that persona gave him the framework which he desired, from which he could make …

Vytis, Volume 69, Issue 10 (December 1983), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 1, No. 6, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

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Ud/Aflc/Desc Partnership Searches For Engineering Talent

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton, the Air Force Logistics Command and the Defense Electronics Supply Center are creating and funding a program providing scholarships and employment to scientifically and technically trained people who wish to re-enter the field of engineering.

Founding Members Inducted In "The John Stuart Society"

News Releases

News release announces that it will give a special dinner to honor the 23 founding members of the John Stuart Society, which honors those who have given $100,000 or more to the University.

20th Christmas On Campus Invites Community To Celebrate

News Releases

News release announces the 20th Christmas on Campus celebration at the University of Dayton.

Afro-American Center Sponsors Seminar Probing Alcohol Abuse

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News release announces "Black Sociology, The Black Family, The Black Woman in America, and Black Masculinity -- and how they interrelate with alcohol abuse and alcoholism." Sponsors include the University of Dayton Afro-American Affairs Center, Black Outreach Program of the Bureau of Alcoholism Services and the Dayton chapter of the Ohio Black Alcoholism Council.

Flyer News, Vol. 30, Special Supplement, Flyer Basketball 1983-84 (Nov. 18, 1983), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 30, No. 20 (Nov. 18, 1983), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Reverend Paul J. Wagner, S.M. 1905-1983

News Releases

News release announces that Father Paul J. Wagner, S.M., died of natural causes at 78 years old.

Jack Anderson Explores "The American Scene" At Ud

News Releases

News release announces that Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Jack Anderson will be the first guest speaker in the University of Dayton's Distinguished Speaker Series.

Flyer News, Vol. 30, No. 19 (Nov. 15, 1983), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 30, No. 18 (Nov. 11, 1983), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Ofic Campaign For Member Colleges And Universities

News Releases

News release announces the kickoff of the Dayton-area campaign for the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges.

Flyer News, Vol. 30, No. 17 (Nov. 8, 1983), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Ud Students And Kidney Foundation Sponsor "Recycle Yourself"

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton Rotaract Club and the Dayton Kidney Foundation are sponsoring the "Recycle Yourself" event.

Sophomore Killed In Biking Accident

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News release announces that student John A. Gallis was killed when he was struck by an automobile while biking in Indiana.

Flyer News, Vol. 30, No. 16 (Nov. 4, 1983), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

National Issues Forum Presents "Nuclear Arms And National Security"

News Releases

News release announces four local opportunities to discuss national arms and national security as part of the National Issues Forum, sponsored by the Domestic Policy Association.

Model Un Sessions To Be Held At Ud

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton Model United Nations Club will sponsor its fifth annual Model United Nations Conference for high school students.