Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 1991"

Kant: Political Writings

Abstract: The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history are included for the first time: his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of The History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History; as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliography, and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since first publication.

Friedrich Schiller : drama, thought, and politics

Abstract: In this important study, Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary background of the late eighteenth century. Spanning a period from the late 1770s to 1805 they explore the insistent themes of the age - the loss of tradition and authority, the individual's claim to self-expression and the search for stability. While the early works focus on the turbulent individual, Schiller later turns to the great public concerns of the French Revolutionary era - legitimacy and power, the exercise of freedom and the relationship between morality and politics. The aesthetic essays explore the vital role of art in integrating the aesthetic, moral and political realms.

Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception

Abstract: This is an examination of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Pearl", "Purity" and "Patience". Generally accepted as being the work of a single author, alternately known as the "Pearl" or the "Gawain-Poet", these 14th-century poems are bound together in British Museum Cotton Nero A.x. Readers of the poems rarely fail to admire their descriptive art - the minutely detailed and precisely visualized depictions of costume, landscape, interior funishings or storms at sea. Sarah Stanbury examines the "Gawain-Poet"'s powers of physical description and the ways in which the poems focus upon the moment and act of vision. The text grounds its discussion in medieval aesthetics, contemporary narrative theory and iconographic study to explore the ways in which the poet consistently uses description as a narrative tool for dramatizing the limitations of human experience and knowledge.

Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer

Abstract: When it was first published in 1989, Susan Miller s \"Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer \"established a landmark pedagogical approach to composition based on the importance of the writer and the act of writing in the history of rhetoric. Widely used as an introduction to rhetoric and composition theory for graduate students, the volume was the first winner of the W. Ross Winterowd Award from \"JAC \"and is still one of the most frequently cited books in the field.This first paperback edition includes a new introductory chapter in which Miller addresses changes in the field since the first edition, outlines new research, and surveys positions she no longer supports. A new foreword by Thomas P. Miller assesses the proven impact of \"Rescuing the Subject \"on the field of rhetoric and composition.Situating modern composition theory in the historical context of rhetoric, Miller notes that throughout the eighteenth century, rhetoric referred to oral, not written, discourse. By contrast, her history of rhetoric contends oral and written discourse were related from the beginning. Taking a thematic rather than chronological approach, she shows how actual acts of writing comment on both rhetoric and composition. Miller also asserts that contemporary composition study is the necessary cultural outcome of changing conditions for producing discourse, describing the history of rhetoric as the gradual and unstable relocation of discourse in conventions that only written language can create. She maintains teachers and historians of rhetoric must recognize that the contemporary writing they analyze and teach demands their attention to a textual rhetoric that allows theorizing the writer as always symbolically a student of situated meanings.\

The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction

Abstract: David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the \"end\" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The cansos and sirventes of the troubadour Giraut de Borneil : a critical edition

Abstract: Acknowledgements Note on the text Concordance List of abbreviations 1. Life of Giraut de Borneil 2. Cansos and Canso-Sirventes 3. The Cansos 4. The Canso-Sirventes 5. Canso of doubtful attribution 6. Analysis of the manuscripts 7. The Sirventes 8. Sirventes of doubtful attribution Appendices Bibliography.

Literature and the English civil war

Abstract: Notes on contributors Introduction: 'Warre is all the world about' Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday Part I. Definitions and Premonitions: 1. The very name of the game: theories of order and disorder Annabel Patterson 2. A troubled Arcadia Graham Parry Part II. Engagement or Retreat: 3. Politics and the masque: Salmacida Spolia Martin Butler 4. Exploring the language of devotion in the English revolution Helen Wilcox Part III. Truth and the Self: 5. In the wars of truth: violence, true knowledge and power in Milton and Hobbes Francis Barker 6. 'Some rousing motions': the plurality of Miltonic ideologies Thomas N. Corns 7. 'Mysteriously divided': Civil War, madness and the divided self Jonathan Sawday Part IV. Interpreting the Present: 8. Marvell's 'Horatian Ode' and the politics of genre David Norbrook 9. 'Dark all without it knits': vision and authority in Marvell's Upon Appleton House Thomas Healy 10. History digested: opera and colonialism in the 1650s Susan J. Wiseman 11. Cheap and common animals: the English anatomy of Ireland in the seventeenth century Patricia Coughlan Part V. Aftermath: 12. 'The Colonel's Shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing, and the Civil War N. H. Keeble 13. Exporting enthusiasm: John Perrot and the Quaker epic Nigel Smith Index.

The dialects of modern German : a linguistic survey

Abstract: Part I: Frisian A. G. H. Walker, Part II: Low German i) North Saxon R.H Goltz and A. G. H. Walker ii) Westphalian and Eastphalian M. Durrell, iii) East Low German, Including Brandenburgisch H. Schnfeld, Part III: Central German i) West Central German a. Central Franconian G. Newton, b. Hessian M. Durrell and W.Davies c. The Dialects of the Palatinate W. A. I. Green, ii) East Central German a. Upper Saxon G. Bergmann, b. Thuringian K. Spangenberg, Part IV: Upper German i) Low Alemannic M. Philipp and A.Bothorel-Witz ii) Swabian C. V. J. Russ iii) High Alemannic C. V. J. Russ iv) East Franconian A. R. Rowley, v) North Bavarian A. R. Rowley vi) Central and Southern Bavarian P. Wiesinger,

Heart in Conflict: Faulkner's Struggles with Vocation@@@Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice: Speech and Writing in Faulkner

Abstract: Ross uses theoretically grounded notions of voice to propose new ways of explaining how Faulkner's novels and stories express meaning, showing how Faulkner used the affective power of voice to induce the reader to forget the silent and originless nature of written fiction. Ross departs from previous Faulkner criticism by proceeding not text-by-text or chronologically but by constructing a workable taxonomy, that defines the types of voice in Faulkner's fiction: phenomenal voice, a depicted event or object within the represented fictional world: mimetic voice, the illusion that a person is speaking psychic voice, one heard only in the mind and overheard only through fiction's omniscience: and oratorical voice, and overtly intertextual voice that derives from a discursive practice - Southern oratory - recognizable outside the boundaries of any Faulkner text and identifiable as part of Faulkner's biographical and regional heritage.

Seduction and theory : readings of gender, representation, and rhetoric

Abstract: Essays discuss the conception of seduction in the visual arts, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and postmodernist theory.

The Carolingians and the Written Word

Abstract: List of maps and tables Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. The spoken and the written word 2. law and the written word 3. A literate community: the evidence of the charters 4. The production and possession of books: an economic dimension 5. The organization of written knowledge 6. The literacy of the laity Epilogue Index of manuscripts General index.