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Annual Reports Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture 1999-, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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“Murder Not Then The Fruit Within My Womb”: Shakespeare’S Joan, Foxe’S Guernsey Martyr, And Women Pleading Pregnancy In Early Modern English History And Culture, Carole Levin

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When the character Joan La Pucelle has been captured and is brought before Warwick and York to be condemned at the end of Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI, she at first denies her shepherd father and proclaims both her noble birth and her virginity. She claims that she is issue “from the progeny of kings; virtuous and holy,” and adds proudly, “Joan of Arc hath been a virgin from her tender infancy,/ Chaste and immaculate in very thought” (5.4.38–39, 50–51). These assertions do not, however, impress York and Warwick, who order her to be taken away to her execution. At …

Review Essay: Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet, Nancy Gutierrez

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Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi + 198 pp.

Review Essay: R. B. Dobson And J. Taylor. Rymes Of Robyn Hood: An Introduction To The English Outlaw, Julian Wasserman

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R. B. Dobson and J. Taylor. Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, Ltd., 1997. 332 pp.

Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. 723 pp.

Review Essay: Arthur Marotti, Ed. Catholicism And Anti-Catholicism In Early Modern English Texts, Eugene R. Cunnar

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Arthur Marotti, ed. Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 266 pp.

Milan And The Development And Dissemination Of Il Ballo Nobile: Lombardy As The Terpsichorean Treasury For Early Modern European Courts, Katherine Tucker Mcginnis

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"Le mosche d'Italia in una poppa, Volando in Francia, per verder i ragni...." In these lines, titled "Di Pompeo Diabone," the Milanese artist and poet Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo celebrated the Italian dancing masters who, lured like flies to the web of the spider, served in the courts of France. In the sixteenth century there were many Italians in France, including a large number of influential and prosperous dancing masters. In spite of obvious connections with Florence via Catherine de’ Medici, the majority came from Lombardy, an area long considered the center of il ballo nobile, the formalized social …

Review Essay: Confident Readings: Medieval And Early Modern (Christian) Spirituality And Its Recent Interpreters, Steven F. Kruger

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Catherine M. Mooney, ed. Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xiii + 277 pp.

Richard Rambuss. Closet Devotions. Durham and London: Duke Univer- sity Press, 1998. xiii + 193 pp.

The Life And The Literary Reputation Of Margaret Cavendish, James Fitzmaurice

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It might be said of the œuvre of Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) and in loose, jocular paraphrase of Sigmund Freud that biography has been destiny. Certainly a great many people who study British literature today pay as much attention to the various, often brief, assessments of the life of the woman as to what she wrote. For those scholars who concentrate on canonical male writers of the seventeenth century, she remains as she has for the last fifty years or so—a colorful eccentric who goes by the nickname “Mad Madge.” She is, thus, sufficiently represented by the few poems, the snippet …

The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Reading Dorothy Hewett As Boundary Writer, Carmel M. Grahame

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis locates the writings of Dorothy Hewett in a firm relationship with postmodern thought. The argument focuses on evidence that the dominant aesthetic of Hewett's writing is the feminine sublime which comprises a commitment to uncertainty. In this modality, reason does not foreclose on the action of the imagination in the sublime moment. The revised dynamic is explored with an emphasis on the radical nature of the doubt in question. It reflects a deliberate resistance to certainty, and fol1ows from Hewett's early experience with communism. At a formal level, in Hewett's texts, the commitment to uncertainty is not least …

A Calendar Of Wisdom. Daily Thoughts To Nourish The Soul. Written And Selected From The World's Sacred Texts (Book Review), Yvonne Howell

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

Tolstoy spent over fifteen years collecting "the wisdom of the centuries in one book" (6). He began compiling this wisdom in written form, as quotes from the world's sacred texts and from famous (as well as obscure) artists, in 1902-1903. The first version of the resulting book was published in 1904. It was reprinted three times during his lifetime, variously titled Thoughts of Wise Men, A Circle of Reading, or The Way of Life. It is the early version of the book that made it into the 1957 Soviet edition of Tolstoy's collected works as Krug chteniia: …

Sexual Politics And Subversion: Feminist Utopia As Praxis, Jennifer Sue Boyers

Dissertations

Literary studies meets up with sociology as feminist utopian fiction Is examined for what sociologist Dorothy Smith (1990) labels normal narrative and counter-narrative articulations of gendered structures of power. The method of analytical Induction Is used both In the choosing of the four novels for study and the resulting textual analysis. Ursula Le Guln's The dispossessed (1974), Marge Plercy's Woman on the edge of time (1976), Suzy McKee Chamas's Motherllnes (1978), and Sally Miller Gearhart's The wandereround (1979) are examined for their constructions of dystopian normal narratives, as well as for their reconstructions of subversive utopian counter-narratives, both articulating gendered …

George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory 1998, Tenniel Evans

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Sixty-two years ago, almost to the day - a freezing 25 November 1936 - I arrived at the London docks from Africa and came, without realizing it at the time, to live in the country of my background. I was to live with Alison and Rupert Winser and their family in the Rectory at Allesley, just outside Coventry, and it became my home for the next five years. By the end of that time, of course, the war had blown away the old life and it would never be the same again. So I was lucky that at least I …

What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul Of Tarsus The Real Founder Of Christianity? And Paul: The Mind Of The Apostle: N.T. Wright. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. Pp. 192. $14.00. A.N. Wilson. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 273. $25.00., Patrick V. Reid

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Pursuing Cartesian Virtue, Vance Morgan

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Roots, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Taking Diversity Seriously Enough, Philip E. Devine

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall 1998, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Rebel Without A Court: The Pursuit Of Sacred And Secular Power By The Frondeur, Jean-Francois Paul De Gondi (1648-1654), Raymond L. Sickinger

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Is There A Secular Answer To Euthanasia, American Style?, Paul Conner, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Diversity, Or Unified Pluralism, Philip A. Smith, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century In His Life: By D. M. Thomas. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. Xxxii, 583. $29.95, Brian Barbour

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Jesuit And Jansenist In Moliere And Racine, Rodney Delasanta

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Hidden Manchu Literature In Lao She's Writings, Yi Shu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

Text of a speech given at Texas A & M University in 1994, translated by Britt Towery, Gu Jingyu and Sui Gang.

Gender Geopolitics : Social Space And Volatile Bodies, 1937-1945, Jianmei Liu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Tani E. Barlow, Ed. Gender Politics In Modern China : Writing And Feminism, Shuqin Cui

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Gender Politics in Modem China: Writing and Feminism", edited by Tani E. Barlow.

許子東 :《當代小說閱讀筆記》, Wing Li Ng

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

此文評論許子東著的《當代小說閱讀筆記》。

Chinese Cinema And Transnational Cultural Politics : Reflections On Film Festivals, Film Productions, And Film Studies, Yingjin Zhang

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This study situates Chinese cinema among three interconnected concerns that all pertain to transnational cultural politics: (1) the impact of international film festivals on the productions of Chinese films and their reception in the West; (2) the inadequacy of the “Fifth Generation” as a critical term for Chinese film studies; and (3) the need to address the current methodological confinement in Western studies of Chinese cinema. By “transnational cultural politics” here I mean the complicated——and at times complicit—ways Chinese films, including those produced in or coproduced with Hong Kong and Taiwan, are enmeshed in “a larger process in which popular- …