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{"title":"Mörike's Muses: Critical Essays on Eduard Mörike ed. by Jeffrey Adams (review)","authors":"Roger Crockett","doi":"10.2307/1347836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1347836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"81 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":"126242729","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":"Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir by Jans B. Wager (review)","authors":"Heide Witthöft","doi":"10.5860/choice.37-3274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-3274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"41 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":"126365319","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 Brief Compass: The Nineteenth-Century German Novelle by Roger Paulin (review)","authors":"Ingeborg Baumgartner","doi":"10.1353/RMR.1987.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RMR.1987.0055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"11 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":"126217613","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 Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature by Susan L. Smith (review)","authors":"M. Harp","doi":"10.2307/1348248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1348248","url":null,"abstract":"it; much less does he attempt to project any a priori ideas onto the text. Another, more intangible virtue of the book is its projection of the author's deep respect and profound affection for his subject, as an artist and as a man. Finally, Shaw's writing style is generally clear, direct and concise (the chief virtues of the prose style of his subject). The book is available in both cloth and paper bindings. Three more volumes of the Collected Works are projected over the next two years.","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"14 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":"128068031","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 Radical Self: Metamorphosis to Animal Form in Modern Latin American Narrative by Nancy Gray Díaz (review)","authors":"R. Martin","doi":"10.1353/RMR.1990.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RMR.1990.0048","url":null,"abstract":"developed a clearer definition of romanticism. The formation of the Cénacle in 1827 united the romantics, but they still needed \"a philosophy, a theory, a clear doctrine of romanticism\" (223). The romantics experienced some victory in prose, poetry, and drama. In 1829, their leader, Victor Hugo, realized they needed a \"stage production of unassailable quality\" in order to silence the diehards; furthermore, \"he felt that such a drama should be his\" (239). The French romantic struggle ended with the première of Hugo's play, Hernani, on 25 February 1830. With Hernani, theoretical discussions were over. Romanticism had found its definition. Romantic drama was a reality and, furthermore, this new aesthetic was accepted by Parisian society. Comeau has succeeded in giving the reader a relatively complete overview of the thirty-year French romantic struggle. I agree with him that Diehards and Innovators will serve well \"as an interim handbook or guidebook for a readership composed of historians of the Restoration, as well as specialists and students interested in comparative and French literature\" (viii). However, most English-speaking readers will find the overwhelming number of quotations in French insurmountable.","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"32 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":"128094937","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 Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies: \"Romeo and Juliet,\" \"Hamlet,\" \"Othello,\" and \"King Lear\" by Susan Snyder (review)","authors":"John Doebler","doi":"10.2307/1347285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1347285","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a well-documented examination of Juan Huarte de San Juan and his only treatise, Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (1575), a work that caused a profound impact on many European theologians, grammarians, philosophers, and writers. Translated into all major European languages and Latin as well, the treatise is a fascinating compendium of ideas that explores such topics as humoral psychology, vocational guidance, innovative teaching methodology, and other psychological and physiological issues, to the extent that its scope and vision remain unparalleled in its time. However, in spite of such impressive contributions in the fields of scientific and technical thought, imaginative literature, and literary criticism and theory, Huarte de San Juan has remained obscure and has not attracted due critical attention. Professor Read has successfully assessed Huarte's brilliance and importance by writing this comprehensive work of Huarte's complex and unorthodox ideas about man and the world and showing how this Renaissance physician-intellectual addressed issues that continue to be currently relevant, especially those in the realm of psychology concerning individual differences, the creative process, and man's natural versus acquired ability (even Noam Chomsky has alluded to Huarte in his research on the innate linguistic mechanism of the human mind). Following the format of the Twayne World Author Series, Professor Read provides an informative biographical and historical commentary, followed by nine chapters that examine various facets of the Examen: the nature and identity of man, faith versus reason, pedagogical theory and practice, eugenics, dietetics, and so on. Chapter Nine discusses the far-reaching influence of the Examen in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the modern period. It is easy to agree with Professor Read that Huartean scholarship needs to be enhanced by additional studies. A short conclusion along with an up-to-date selected and annotated bibliography closes the study. Professor Read's study is a useful guide for specialists and also serves to make Huarte accessible to readers at large.","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"45 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":"128109017","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 Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values by James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen (review)","authors":"Bobby D. Barringer","doi":"10.2307/1348411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1348411","url":null,"abstract":"manner that he suggests and die others belong to later and historically different eras. His comment that \"the Homeric epics became fundamental\" because \"Homer possesses enormous talent. Beowulf Gilgamesh and the others cannot compete\" (15), had I seen it in a freshman essay, would cause me to shudder. Finally, the structure of his philosophy makes Hart more comfortable with the Christian world before the Enlightenment. It is amusing to see the great difficulty he has accepting Locke: Indeed, what Locke cautions against, and in his theory of knowledge excludes, may well concern the deepest of human matters, the ideas of good and evil, the nature of the universe, the ultimate bases of civilization, the goals of life. From the perspective of traditional philosophy, Locke was an 'antiphilosopher.' (190)","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":"128116926","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":"A History of the French Language through Texts by Wendy Ayres-Bennett (review)","authors":"Brigitte Roussel","doi":"10.4324/9780203986738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203986738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"15 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":"128154654","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":"Lily Briscoe's Vision: The Articulation of Silence","authors":"Theresa L. Crater","doi":"10.2307/1348227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1348227","url":null,"abstract":"When Lily Briscoe finishes her painting at the end of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, not only is she proving Charles Tansley wrong when he told her \"women can't write, women can't paint\" (75), she is, for the first time in Woolf's fiction, directly expressing female subjectivity. Previous characters have made the attempt. Rachel Vinrace and Septimus Smith desperately searched for alternatives to the gender roles they had been handed, but both were destroyed by the effort. Only Lily Briscoe survives the passage and reemerges, capable of articulating her vision of being a woman other than the prescribed role of Woman.' That female subjectivity can be expressed or even exist has been a subject of much recent debate. Early deconstruction and psychoanalytic theories opposed the humanistic concept of the authentic, essential self capable of autonomy and unmediated experience, insisting that human consciousness is profoundly affected, if not completely formed, by ideology and language. How can a consciousness formed by a culture experience something outside that culture? Certainly Lacan's notion of language and human development preempts women from speaking in any authentic, subjective way whatsoever. According to these theories, women are trapped in silence. Contemporary feminist theorists have found a middle ground in this controversy, which has perhaps been best expressed by Therese de Lauretis. She defines individual identity as \"an ongoing construction, not a fixed point,\" based on \"those relations-material, economic, interpersonal-which are in fact social and, in a larger perspective, historical.\" Meaning and subjectivity are not produced once and for all, but continually created in social practice. De Lauretis names this process \"experience\" (Alice 159), thus rescuing the old feminist adage \"the personal is political.\" A gap, then, exists between the cultural construct of Woman, which is fixed, and the specific historical and personal experience of the female person, which is the site of the engendering of the female subject. Thus, women are in oscillation between the figure Woman and their own daily ongoing experience, and can enunciate female subjectivity by speaking from this gap, which de Lauretis terms \"speaking from elsewhere\" (Technologies 25). \"Elsewhere\" is not some \"real place\"","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"48 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":"125655732","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":"Blow-Up, 1968","authors":"Kathryn Hall","doi":"10.2307/1347886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1347886","url":null,"abstract":"and even the illuminated clock on the wall seemed to tick out minutes, seconds, not something foreign, not the Parisian rain nor the waiters hustling to roll the tables indoors, crumbs sliding off, while the umbrellas dripped red or blue or yellow and then the music in the street was gone. A matinee, the chairs mostly empty. A draft under the double doors led back to the lobby where a woman sat selling tickets, taking francs, rattling change to my palm. How did the film end? I can remember an image, the green leaves emerging from the chemical bath, the leaf's shadow becoming a gun, as if to suggest nothing is what it seems. After the film, we crossed to the Left Bank where the streets were still draped with red, banners and flags, barricades cluttering the alleys, broken bottles as if there had been a party. The shops were closed. We ducked into the cathedral to get out of the rain. Silence except someone praying near the altar and the sound of our shoes crossing the stone hewn in another age and carried on the back of some peasant who never saw completely what we could see then—the way the vaulted ceiling rose to the window or how the light emerged from the glass. Maybe once walking home he saw a woman digging onions from a frozen field, an image so clean and complete, so suddenly discovered","PeriodicalId":326714,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature","volume":"44 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":"115785474","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}