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Lydia H. Liu. Translingual Practice : Literature, National Culture, And Translated Modernity : China, 1900-1937, Yi Tsi Mei Feuerwerker

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

This article reviews the book "Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937", written by Lydia H. Liu.

Siu Wang-Ngai, With Peter Lovrick. Chinese Opera : Images And Stories, Paola Voci

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

This article reviews the book "Chinese Opera: Images and Stories", written by Siu Wang-ngai, with Peter Lovrick.

Agency Beyond Subjectivity : The Unredeemed Project Of May Fourth Fiction, Deirdre Sabina Knight

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

This paper is part of a larger project in which I make a case for the central importance of the problem of free will to considerations of Chinese modernity. I begin by distinguishing between two key aspects of modernity and the Enlightenment: (1) subjectivity, or the realm of consciousness including the capacity for critical reason, and (2) agency, or acting on the world outside consciousness in a way that makes a difference. I then suggest that neglecting the development of rational agency cripples the force of the commitment to human freedom that drives the project of modernity. In calling attention …

Living In The Palaces Of Love: Love And The Soul In A Vision Of St. Aldegund Of Maubeuge (Ca. 635–684), Isabel Moreira

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Abbess Aldegund of Maubeuge, in dictating her visions to the cleric Subnius in her later years, recalled a vision she had experienced in her youth. She saw herself entering a heavenly mansion, richly bejeweled and "steeped" with Christ's "sweet odor." The vision had made a great impression on her. She accredited it with having matured her spiritual understanding, for having first misunderstood the vision's meaning, she now understood it, "the scales having fallen from her eyes." Yet as historians we are not as fortunate as Aldegund claimed to be. Many centuries removed from the events of the seventh century, the …

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The Book Of Margery Kempe: Religious Discourse And The Carnivalesque Woman, Kathryn Summers

Quidditas

Both during her lifetime and since the full manuscript of her forceful autobiography was discovered, no one has quite known what to do with Margery Kempe. Even her staunchest contemporary supporters occasionally lost patience with her or worried that they had inadvertently allied themselves with the wrong side in the divine conflict. Margery followed all the conventional Christian forms: she passed repeated ecclesiastical trials for orthodoxy with flying colors; she went on all the right pilgrimages; she said numberless prayers and took countless communions; even her crying fits and most of her visions have been shown to reflect the experiences …

Allen D. Breck Award Winner (1998): "The City's Usuries": Commerce And Cymbeline, Goran V. Stanivukovic

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Scholarship on early modern masculinity and male sexuality has not considered Cymbeline at any great length. Yet Cymbeline is jammed with men embroiled with the difficulties of the quest for national identity, a quest connected with the complications of shaping man's erotic identity. In Cymbeline the construction of masculinity depends upon one man's measuring of himself against another man, for example, Posthumus against Iachimo, Cloten against Posthumus; of one male community against another, of Romans against Britons. It has been a traditional tendency of gender-oriented criticism to interpret male subjectivity in Cymbeline as part of the process of forging British …

Review Essay: Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, Christy Desmet

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Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997- vii + 255 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2982-4. $45.00.

Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner

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Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xii + 190 pp. $54.95; and Matchinske, Megan. Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 247 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62254-9.

An Annotated Bibliography Of Literary Mormon Humor, Sherlene Hall Bartholomew

Theses and Dissertations

This "Annotated Bibliography of Literary Mormon Humor" includes over five hundred sources, cross-referenced to pertinent commentary and criticism, and divided into seven sections: "Humor in Mormon Fiction," "Humor in Mormon Non-Fiction," "Mormon Criticism Assessing ‘Inside Humor,’" "Gentile Criticism of the Saints' Humor," "Gentile Humor About Mormons," "Mormon Criticism of Gentile Humor," and "Mormon Internet Humor," all made accessible to scholars by a comprehensive index of more than one thousand topics. The author has filed selected photocopied pages of alphabetized, annotated items by author, or chronologically as periodicals, into a twenty-volume Archive of Mormon Humor in Literature, housed at the Center …

The Theme Of Childhood In William Blake's Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience & Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Nabil Fayez Saad

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Stone And The Seed In The Myth Of Sisyphus By Albert Camus, And Season Of Migration To The North By Tayeb Salih, Mark Andrew Taylor

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Geoffrey Beevers

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I'm sure you all know more about George Eliot than I do, so I thought I'd talk for a few minutes about the difficulties and joys of adapting her work, and especially Adarn Bede for the stage.

I'd been asked to adapt Adarn Bede for the Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, Surrey, then a tiny room-theatre above a pub. I didn't know much about George Eliot then. I didn't know that just around the corner from the pub theatre was the beautiful house in Park Shot where she had begun to write Adarn Bede and where the sound of George …

The Purloined Self In The Fictional Letter, Walid Abd El Aal El Hamamsy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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從翻譯談到語氣助詞 : 以打官腔的"嘛"和女性用語的"的"為例, Yuebi Hong

文學與翻譯研究中心 論文叢刊 Centre for Literature and Translation Occasional Paper Series

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Inventing Ireland: Declan Kiberd. 719pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. $35.00, Charles F. Duffy

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Odysseus Elytis, From The Golden To The Silver Poem: Andonis Decavalles. New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1994, Pp. 218., Vassiliki Panoussi

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Grace And Disgrace: A Theological Reading Of Geoffrey Hill’S Poetry, Aidan Nichols, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall 1997, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Aesthetic Contemplation, Thomas Ewens

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Pinsky’S Dante, Anthony Esolen

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Franciscan Ministry Of Preaching And Hearing Confessions In England, 1224-1350, Michael Robson, O.F.M.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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A Hermeneutics Of Trust, David Lewis Stokes, Jr.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Zorastrianism And Its Earthly Tenure, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Wole Soyinka's "Dawn" And The Cults Of Ogun, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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School At The Center: Mending Breaks In The Broken Heartland, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Some years ago I was teaching a course called "The Literature of Agriculture," accounts of how farmers and rural people made a living over time. Hesiod, Virgil, Chaucer's rural tales, George Eliot, Great Plains modem farm novels, and Wendell Berry's writings about the unsettling of America were the fare. One of my students remarked in passing, "Don't know if I can read this stuff. I only went to a small high schooL" He knew nothing of the literature about smallness and quality in education and had no pride of community. Later I asked the rural class if they planned to …

Nick Brwone Et Al., Ed. New Chinese Cinemas : Forms Identities, Politics, Zhiwei Xiao

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

This article reviews the book "New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics", edited by Nick Browne, Paul Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, and Esther Yau.

Henry Y. H. Zhao. The Uneasy Narrator : Chinese Fiction From The Traditional To The Modern, Liangyan Ge

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

This article reviews the book "The Uneasy Narrator: Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern", written by Henry Y.H. Zhao.