{"title":"The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature by Lawrence L. Langer, and: A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature by Alvin H. Rosenfeld (review)","authors":"Ken Pellow","doi":"10.2307/1347819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1347819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133222406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pilgrimage and Storytelling in The Canterbury Tales by Charles A. Owen (review)","authors":"R. L. Kindrick","doi":"10.1353/rmr.1978.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.1978.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Charles Owen's analysis of The Canterbury Tales raises questions not recently sounded in Chaucer criticism. In an attempt to explain the dialectic between \"earnest\" and \"game,\" Owen explores Chaucer's intention, the chronology of composition, and the sequence of the tales themselves. Some of the results are provocative, some quite satisfactory, and some questionable. Owen's answer to questions about Chaucer's purpose is simple and direct: The Canterbury Tales, he believes, underwent a series of three revisions, which he identifies chronologically: I. 1387-1390? He suggests this is the period of \"first conception.\" Tales included in this period are the Man of Law sequence (Melibeus), the Wife of Bath's Prologue (to line 168), the Parson's Prologue, and perhaps the Constance. From 1391 to 1393, Chaucer abandoned The Canterbury Tales to give his attention to other writing. II. 1394.M398? Owen sees this as the period of resumption, which included expansion of the Wife of Bath's Prologue, conception of the marriage group, formation of Fragments D, C, E-F, B\", G, and probably H. Among other revisions, he believes that one of the most vital is the suggestion that the reunion of the Host with his wife would follow the Parson's Tale. III. 1399-","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"91 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123170099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Letters of George Henry Lewes, Vol. III, with New George Eliot Letters ed. by William Baker (review)","authors":"Carol A. N. Martin","doi":"10.2307/1348163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1348163","url":null,"abstract":"with Chateaubriand was so intimate that when she published portions of it in her autobiography, it caused a sensation in the French literaryworld, provoking Barbey d'Aurevilly to attack her personally for revealing that the revered author ofLe Génie du christianisme had feet of clay. (Barbey's villification ofAllan led her son Marcus to challenge the latter to a duel, but readers will have to read Hansen's book to learn of the outcome of this bizarre affair.) Suffice it to say that Allan lived an exceedingly rich life, full ofcontroversy and adventure, and died well satisfied that it had been worthwhile. In a letter written late in life to Sainte-Beuve, she affirmed: \"Sije rencontrais sur mon chemin unefilU délicate, spirituelle etforte, je lui dirais de faire commej'aifait, de suivre nobUment la nature\" (261). Hansen's book convinces one that Hortense Allan was a significant figure in nineteenth-century French literary history. There can be no question that she deserves to be better known today, both as an early crusader for French women's rights, and as a writer and thinker who knew and interacted with some of the most important authors of her time. It is certainly to be hoped that more studies will be made of this remarkable woman.","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127854470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RMMLA-Huntington Award","authors":"C. G. Davis","doi":"10.1353/rmr.1989.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.1989.0065","url":null,"abstract":"All members of the RMMLA are eligible for the RMMLA-Huntington award for 1990 and we especially encourage younger scholars to apply. While the deadline is not until January 1, 1990, it is not too early to plan the time to work at the Huntington and then to prepare the application. Criteria for selection include value of the project, appropriateness of the research to material available at the Huntington, promise and experience of the researcher, and proposed use or distribution of the results.","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134496568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education by John James Axtell (review)","authors":"J. Loftis","doi":"10.2307/1348439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1348439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134631708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life in Dead Silver","authors":"R. Schoene","doi":"10.2307/1348230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1348230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131261665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Father, Drunk, Squeezes Your Arm, Tells His Joke","authors":"R. Fink","doi":"10.1353/rmr.1989.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.1989.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131678462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era by Olga Augustinos (review)","authors":"Wilson Baldridge","doi":"10.2307/1347987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1347987","url":null,"abstract":"Like the characters in Six Degrees of Separation, far too many of the writers in An Other Tongue appear to subscribe to the idea that a rarified dialect is somehow necessary, that it is important to separate themselves from the rest of us by employing a language of exclusion. These writers seem to believe that in some way it legitimizes their scholarship, when, in reality, it simply distances them from the very people of whom they write. I do not believe the Chicana/o students I teach every semester would ever consent to being labeled \"intercultural heteroglots\" (13), nor would they wade through the ocean ofjargon which camouflages the scholarship in An Other Tongue. And if a collection of academic essays does not serve students—especially students who are a part of the population which it claims to represent—then what is its purpose?","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133778838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realism and the Drama of Reference: Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James by H. Meili Steele (review)","authors":"Walter C. Putnam","doi":"10.1353/RMR.1989.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RMR.1989.0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133782815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"House of Geishas","authors":"A. Shua, D. Foster","doi":"10.2307/1347961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1347961","url":null,"abstract":"The first women are apparently recruited at random. Yet once assembled, certain outlines in the group can be observed, an organization which, if emphasized, could become a style. The madam is now looking for the women still needed, not just any women, but only those who fill in the gaps defined by the others. It is now possible to discern the sort of brothel in the making and even what kind of clientele it might attract. Like a book of stories or poems, or even a novel.","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115498387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}