Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 1983"

Caligari's children : the film as tale of terror

Abstract: * Introduction * The Making of a Genre * The Fascination of Fear * Book into Film I: Mamoulians Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde * The Uncanny * Book Into Film II: Dreyers Vampyr * The Iconography of the Terror-film: Wienes Caligari * Beyond Caligari * An image and its Context * Conclusion

Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail

Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The West and the man of letters: confidence and anxiety 2. Fremont and the humble bee 3. The forty-niners: the stylistic pathology of the Overland Trail 4. The unofficial Gold Rush 5. The journalists' California 6. Mark Twain's West: the stillbirth of satire 7. The perennial critique and the poem of fact Notes to the text List of primary sources treated at length An essay on further reading Index.

Poetry of Discovery. The Spanish Generation of 1956-1971

Abstract: A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 and 1971: Francisco Brines; Eladio Caba ero; Angel Crespo; Gloria Fuertes; Jaime Gil de Biedma; Angel Gonz lez; Manuel Mantero; Claudio Rodr guez; Carlos Sahag n; and Jos Angel Valente. Although each of these poets has developed an individual style, their work has certain common characteristics: use of the everyday language and images of contemporary Spain, development of language codes and intertextual references, and, most strikingly, metaphoric transformations and surprising reversals of the reader's expectations. Through such means these poets clearly invite their readers to join them in journeys of poetic discovery. Andrew P. Debicki's is the first detailed stylistic analysis of this generation of poets, and the first to approach their work through the particularly appropriate methods developed in \"reader-response\" criticism.

Christine de Pizan. An Author's Progress

Abstract: Examen des manuscrits des ballades et rondeaux de C. de P.| les variantes des revisions pour l'imprimeur de l'Epistre Othea, la Mutacion de fortune et l'Avision Christine.