Volume 17

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17.1

Contents

WALTER F. EGGERS, JR.
The Idea of Literary Periods 

GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT
Genre as Text 

MARILYNN J. SMITH
Condemned to Survival: The Comic Unsuccessful Suicide  

GHULAM M. FAYEZ
Images of the Divine in Rumi and Whitman 

OTTAVIO M. CASALE and ALLAN C. DOOLEY
Leopardi, Arnold, and The Victorian Sensibility 

ULRICH K. GOLDSMITH
"0 what a Rogue and Peasant Slave am I!" - Hamlet in English, French, and German

 

BOOK REVIEWS

LEA:Kazantzakis: The Politics of Salvation (Minas Savvas) 

OLSEN: The Structure of Literary Understanding (Gregory L. Ulmer)

 

Books Received

 

17.2 Part I

Contents

VOL.XVII, No. 2 PART I JUNE 1980 

MALCOLM RICHARDSON II
Joycean Irony and Mozart's Don Giovanni  

WILLIAM FREEDMAN
Some Quaims About Qua: On the Relevance of the Non-Aesthetic  

ALEXANDRA ALDRIDGE
Brave New World and the Mechanist/Vitalist Controversy  

WENDY B. FARIS
Alejo Carpentier à la recherche du temps perdu 

JOHN PAUL RIQUELME
Dual Reflections on Transparency: Consciousness in Fiction (Review Essay)  

CARLA L. PETERSON
The Heroine as Reader in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Emma Bovary and Maggie Tulliver

 

17.2 Part II

Contents

Vol. XVII, No.2 PART II
SPECIAL ISSUE
The Metamorphoses of Creativity

Preface

STEPHEN E. TOULMIN
Creativity: Is Science Really a Special Case? 

ARTHUR FINE
Response 

KENNETH KOCH
Inspiration and Work: How Poetry Gets to Be Written 

MICHAEL ANANIA
Response 

NUR YALMAN
Cultural Transpositions of Creativity 

SUSAN TAX FREEMAN
Response 

JAROSLAV PELIKAN
Summary and Conclusions (Précis of oral presentation by Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel)

CONTRIBUTORS

APPENDIX

LEA HAMAOUI
Sound as Image in Stevens' "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself" 

CHARLES HENRY
The Grip of Winter, in "Des Trois Bossus," an Old French Fabliau 

 

17.3

Contents

SUZANNE POIRIER
L'Astrée Revisited: A 17th Century Model for The Magus 

ARTHUR GOLDZWEIG
Literary Censorship in France: Historical Comparisons with Anglo-Saxon Traditions, 1275-1940 

W.D. SIMS-GUNZENHAUSER
The Treacherous Forest of Symbols: Duality and Anti-Self-Consciousness in Eichendorff and Baudelaire 

URSULA FRANKLIN
From 'the Happy Few' to Humanity: Mallarmé and Rilke on and for the Reader 

DANIEL E. RIVAS
Pierre Jean Jouve's Dark Night of the Soul 

JOHN DEAN
The Sick Hero Reborn: Two Versions of the Philoctetes Myth 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

FLASCHE:Geschichte der Spanischen Literatur. Erster Band: Von den Anfangen bis zum Ausgang des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. (Alberto Porqueras-Mayo) 

PRENDERGAST: Balzac: Fiction and Melodrama (B.F. Bart)

TATLOW:The Mash of Evil. Brecht's Response to the Poetry, Theatre and Thought of China and Japan. A Comparative and Critical Evaluation (Martin Esslin) 

OEHLER: Pariser Bilder 1 (1830-1848): Antibourgeoise Asthetik bei Baudelaire, Daumier und Heine (Jeffrey L. Sammons) 

DEL LITTO, Ed.: Le Journal intime et ses formes littéraires: Actes du Colloque de septembre 1975 (Carol Rigolot)

VASCO:Diderot and Goethe: A Study in Science and Humanism (Huguette Cohen)

COLEMAN:THE GALLO ROMAN MUSE
Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France
(William Sylvester)

 

Books Received

 

17.4

Contents

LYNDA D. MCNEIL (Univ. of Maryland)
Toward a Rhetoric of Spatial Form: Some Implications of Frank's Theory 

CHRISTOPHER H. OLECHOWSKI (New York University)
The Napoleonic Legend and Its Aftermath: Polish Romanticism and Stendhal  

JOSÉ L. RAMOS (Brown University)
Translation as a Semiotic Process 

ASSELIN CHARLES (The Pennsylvania State Univ.)
Voodoo Myths in Haitian Literatwe 

WILLIAM WINFIELD (New York University)
Reflection/Negation/Reality: Dostoyevsky and Hegel on Self-Consciousness
 

ELLEN PEEL (Yale University)
Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny in Literature  

ANDREW BUSH (Yale University)
"Le cygne" or "El cisne": The History of a Misreading 

NANCY GRAY DIAZ (Rutgers University)
Imagery and the Theme of Perception: L'Education sentimentale and Niebla

KRISTINE ANDERSON (SUNY-Binghamton)
Two Translations of Baudelaire's "Correspondances": A Linguistic Comparison

 LUZ AURORA PIMENTEL (Harvard University)
The Perception of Reality as an Act of "Reading": An Examination of One Aspect in the Art of Proust and Joyce 

ELLEN ESROCK (New York University)
Literature and Philosophy as Narrative Writing 

ALEXEJ UGRINSKY (Hofstra University)
Chateaubriand's Atala and Pushkin's Prisoner in the Caucasus: French and Russian Variations upon a theme by Guillaume Thomas Raynal

 

Books Received