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The Unfortunate Traveller And The Ramist Controversy: A Narrative Dilemma, Kurtis B. Haas
The Unfortunate Traveller And The Ramist Controversy: A Narrative Dilemma, Kurtis B. Haas
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The narrative and rhetorical structure of Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller has vexed its critics almost since its initial appearance in 1593. Most modern critics have followed a line something akin to that of G.R. Hibbard, who sees Nashe as a writer unable at times to distinguish his own voice from that of the narrator, Jack Wilton. Stephen Hilliard’s study of Nashe notes the critical tendency to see The Unfortunate Traveller as “a formless work, spun out by a careless author with no fixed purpose” and, though he chides such critics for ignoring its many virtues, grants that they likely …
The Changing Understanding Of The Making Of Europe From Christopher Dawson To Robert Bartlett, Glenn W. Olsen
The Changing Understanding Of The Making Of Europe From Christopher Dawson To Robert Bartlett, Glenn W. Olsen
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Two books with the same title, The Making of Europe, published sixty-one years apart, may help us assess profound shifts that have taken place in the understanding of Europe over the last two-thirds of the twentieth century. Both books were or are by master, if quite dissimilar, historians. Though the books share the same title, profound differences, perhaps the program of each author, is revealed in their subtitles. For Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), arguably the most eminent Catholic historian of the twentieth century, The Making of Europe was An Introduction to the History of European Unity (London, 1932). As a …
An Airborne Rescuer From The North In El Paso: "Ruggiero" Or "Perseus"? "Hippogriff" Or "Horse"?, John F. Moffitt
An Airborne Rescuer From The North In El Paso: "Ruggiero" Or "Perseus"? "Hippogriff" Or "Horse"?, John F. Moffitt
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I. A Question of Procedure
Uncovering Women's Writings: Two Early Italian Women Poets, Paola Malpezzi Price
Uncovering Women's Writings: Two Early Italian Women Poets, Paola Malpezzi Price
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If ever there [were] a time which teaches that one must know the history of women to understand the history of literature, it is now.
Review Essay: Eric Sams, Ed, Shakespeare's Lost Play "Edmund Ironside", Charles L. Squier
Review Essay: Eric Sams, Ed, Shakespeare's Lost Play "Edmund Ironside", Charles L. Squier
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Eric Sams, ed., Shakespeare's Lost Play "Edmund Ironside," St. Martin's Press, 1985.