Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association最新文献

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1968.0014

C. M. Segura

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Prophetic History and Agrippa D'Aubigné's Tragiques 《先知史》与阿格里帕·德·奥比格涅的《悲剧》

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1972.0003

V. Crosby

{"title":"Prophetic History and Agrippa D'Aubigné's Tragiques","authors":"V. Crosby","doi":"10.1353/RMR.1972.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RMR.1972.0003","url":null,"abstract":"\"History [was] God's gift to Israel,\"' confirned by the covenant and by his saving acts. These events were actual for each generation, locking together the time of God and the time of man in a joint venture which could be realized at any moment. The Old Testament Hebrews thereby eliminated all barriers between the self and God, and brought both the natural world and history into the existential field. The role of the prophets, as the witnesses of God's word was not only to judge the present-to exhort, to threaten, or to console Israel in God's name-but above all to keep God's promise and his saving acts from slipping back into the past, from losing their viability and activating power. From the eighth to the sixth centuries, beginning with the threatening expansion of the Assyrian empire, Israel felt abandoned by God: His magnalia had come to a standstill. Israel's guilt and God's judgments had created an abyss between His people and the Exodus, the covenant with David, and the other saving events. History, according to the Hebraic sensibility, had therefore come to a stop. To get it started up again required \"eschatological renewal.\"2 Using historical analogies, the prophets spoke of a new Covenant (Jeremiah xxxi:3lff.), a new Exodus (Isaiah xliii:16ff.), a new David (Isaiah xi:l), or a new Zion (Isaiah i:26) as part of a future that could break into the present at any moment. Isaiah called to the people to remember Abraham not by looking back, but by looking toward, or unto him, and brought the future into the present by announcing that God's salvation had already gone forth (\"mon salut est venu en avant\") (Isaiah ii:2, 5).3 Saturated as he was with Biblical material, capable of reading \"tout courant les Rabins sans poincts,\"4 Agrippa d'Aubign6 shared this Hebraic grasp of history. In the Tragiques, the poet-prophet uses the standard Calvinist procedure of identifying the Protestant elect with Israel's chosen people, and calls for a new Exodus:","PeriodicalId":344945,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association","volume":"9 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":"129509991","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}

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Wordsworth Reworks His Hartley 华兹华斯改造他的哈特利

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1970.0000

R. Pearsall

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Biographical Sketches of RM-MLA Co-Presidents for 1947: Thomas Matthews Pearce and Francis Monroe Kercheville 1947年RM-MLA联合主席的传记:托马斯·马修斯·皮尔斯和弗朗西斯·门罗·克切维尔

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1967.0034

Hoyt Trowbridge

{"title":"Biographical Sketches of RM-MLA Co-Presidents for 1947: Thomas Matthews Pearce and Francis Monroe Kercheville","authors":"Hoyt Trowbridge","doi":"10.1353/RMR.1967.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RMR.1967.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Professor Pearce—\"Matt\" to his many friends throughout the West and in national scholarly circles—has always been remarkable for the scope of his interests and the versatility of his achievement. As a scholar he has left his mark in linguistics, folklore, medieval and renaissance studies, and American regional literature. Over the years he has taught almost everything in the English curriculum but he is especially remembered by ten generations of university students for his courses on Shakespeare, Beowidf, history of the language, and Southwestem literature. Born in Kentucky sixty-five years ago, Dr. Pearce did his undergraduate work at the University of Montana and earned his master's and doctor's degrees at Pittsburgh. He came to the University of New Mexico in 1927 as an assistant professor of English and, except for sabbatical leaves and several summer visiting appointments, served there continuously until his voluntary early retirement in June, 1964. He was chairman of the department for twelve years, 1939-51, a crucial period during which doctoral programs in English and in American Studies were introduced at New Mexico and other decisions and appointments were made which have helped to shape the department ever since.","PeriodicalId":344945,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association","volume":"21 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":"129746739","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}

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RM-MLA Past Presidents: III: Edgar Thomas Ruff: 1952-1953 前任主席:III:埃德加·托马斯·拉夫:1952-1953

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1968.0027

Frances Hernández

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Waldo Frank by Paul J. Carter (review) 保罗·j·卡特《沃尔多·弗兰克》(书评)

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1968.0009

C. Levine

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Blindfolded and Backwards: Promethean and Bemushroomed Heroism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo'S Nest and Catch-22 蒙住眼睛和向后:《飞越疯人院》和《第二十二条军规》中的普罗米修斯和蘑菇般的英雄主义

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1972.0009

William Schopf

{"title":"Blindfolded and Backwards: Promethean and Bemushroomed Heroism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo'S Nest and Catch-22","authors":"William Schopf","doi":"10.1353/RMR.1972.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RMR.1972.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest have been heralded as prominent political-literary statements of the American New Left. Subversive and irreverent, these novels boldly confront the shape and aims of the authority-structure. As New Left literature they challenge the divine right of American Authority by ridiculiug all jingoism underlain by the arrogant assumption that a hotline wires the Structure to Divinity. Colonel Cathcart, for example, speaking for the commanding officers in Heller's novel, asks unbelievingly, \"What are you talking about? You mean they [the enlisted men] pray to the same God we do?\" (p. 199).1 The two novels have been revered by the young if only because they attest to the Basic Conflict-enlisted men vs. officers, idealism and change vs. rigidity. Politically powerless, America's young can envision themselves as Yossarians combatting their personal Cathcarts. The themes of the novels are, of course, representative of the Sixties: man in alienation from himself, society, God and the past; man rootless and unstable in a world spinning away madly and irretrievably. As Paul Goodman has written, \"History is out of control. It is no longer something that we make but something that happens to us ... What is the psychology of feeling that one is powerless to alter basic conditions? What is it as a way of being in the world?\"2 The New Left conceives of Authority as intrinsically wicked and selfseeking, so that its primary concerns become self-perpetuation and omnipotence. In Catch-22 the diabolical General P.P. Peckem informs an incredulous subordinate that he can do anything not forbidden by law and there is no law against lying. General Dreedle indignantly asks, \"You mean I can't shoot anyone I want to?\" (p. 228). The essence of the best catch of all, catch-22, is that \"they [Authority] have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing\" (p. 416). Likewise, in Kesey's novel the hospital wards compete for prizes given to the group which cooperates most with Big Nurse Ratched, the self-proclaimed divinity of a mental institution. The body of criticism of Catch-22 and Cuckoos Nest, in suggesting the inevitability of permanent warfare with the Structure, has largely ignored","PeriodicalId":344945,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association","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":"114196028","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}

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Classical Metrics and Medieval Music 古典韵律和中世纪音乐

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1969.0026

A. Seay

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Quincy Guy Burris, 1954-1955 昆西·盖伊·伯里斯，1954-1955

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1968.0010

R. Newton

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RMMLA Past Presidents, IV: Thomas Bond Burnam, 1953-1954 历届总统，第四届:托马斯·邦德，1953-1954

Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1968.0006

N. Cross

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