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Eliot and Ezra Pound grew from an active interest in the past, an exploration of the nature of their “historical sense” has not until now been undertaken. By thoroughly examining these poets’ collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their “poems including history.” Although concentrating on Pound’s work through 1917 and Eliot’s through 1922, the book moves beyond this focus to a more compre­ hensive analysis of the modernist sense of the past, locating its origins in a strain of Romantic literature exemplified by Pater and Yeats. “This is an exemplary work. Longenbach, without discarding our existing knowledge of the Pound/Eliot origins of twentieth-century High Modernism, has spelled out a context that was always vaguely implicit but never easy to specify: a new and anti-positivistic idea of how ‘history’ can be understood... .The scholarship is of a high order throughout, and the narrative everywhere perspicuous.” —Hugh Kenner, The Johns Hopkins University Cloth: $29.00 THE LINGUISTIC MOMENT FROM WORDSWORTH TO STEVENS J. HILLIS MILLER This series of readings, available for the first time in paperback, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium—language—becomes an issue. In works by Words­ worth, Shelley, Arnold, Browning, Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Stevens, and Williams, the book discusses moments when language is not simply used, but talked about as a theme. In each case the linguistic moment takes a distinctive form, but in all instances it has such momentum that it tends to dominate the poem and to suspend its ostensible meaning. Significantly revising aspects of his earlier work, J. Hillis Miller examines the breakdown, in the linguistic moment, of the illusion that language is a transparent medium of meaning. “With this new, long-awaited study, in which he turns his attention to the poets, he [Miller] has fully consolidated his position in the vanguard of American theoretical criticism.... it is a measure of his interpretive ingenuity that although the general tenor of his readings is the same throughout, the precise contours are always exhilaratingly new.” —R. J. Jarvis, The Times Higher Education Supplement Paper: $12.50. Cloth: $55.00 WINNER OF THE 1979 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AWARD OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION AND THE 1979 MELVILLE CANE AWARD OF THE POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ROOTS OF LYRIC PRIMITIVE POETRY AND MODERN POETICS ANDREW WELSH Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied in primitive verse forms, how they are raised to higher powers in poetry from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and how an awareness of them can illuminate our reading of the poetry of any age. “... a useful and illuminating exploration of the central organizing powers in poetic lan­ guage. It should interest anyone concerned with the intersection of oral and written poetry, in the shared lyric spaces of primitive poetry and modern poetics.” —Edward Hirsch, World Literature Today Now available in paperback: $14.50 At your bookstore or Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 Ir^ Oxford ■ ■ "~ .... Poetry in English An Anthology M.L. ROSENTHAL, New York University, General Editor Series Editors: V. A. De Luca, Sally M. Gall, A. Kent Hieatt, Beryl Rowland, Rosemary Sullivan, Howard Weinbrot This authoritative, handsomely designed anthology of poetry from tl Anglo-Saxon to the contemporary stresses major figures without neglecting minor ones of quality. Meant for survey and genre courses (and for all interested readers), it offers responsible scholarly texts for study in themselves and for seeing both the continuities and the changes in dominant modes over the centuries. The larger aim is to enhance appreciation of poetic art generally. 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This collection of eleven papers written in English focuses on a variety of problems, of staging, genre, dramaturgy, ideology and aesthetics, exhibiting a corresponding variety of critical approaches, and maintaining a balance between the detailed analysis of plays other than the great masterpieces by Corneille, Moliere and Racine, and the consideration of more wide-ranging topics. 304 pp. £13.95 net/$29.95 (doth) April 1987 ISBN 0 85323 105 2 STENDHAL ET L’ANGLETERRE edited by K.G. McWATTERS and C.W. THOMPSON A distinguished collection of essays mostly written in French covering the extent of Stendhal’s debt to English literature, language, thought and civilisation and of his contribution to English periodical literature. 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Contents include: Byron and the Limits of Fiction; Beppo: Empiricism and Deconstruction; Byron’s Orientalism; Byron’s Experiments in Personality; Byron and the Sense of the Dramatic; Lyrical Presence in Byron’s Narratives; Time and Space in Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage; Byron’s Make-Believe, and Contemporary Theory. Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Volume XXII 176 pp. approx. £18.25 net (doth) Spring 1988 ISBN 0 85323 026 9 In the USA, these books and further information are available from HUMANITIES PRESS INTERNATIONAL INC., ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NEW JERSEY 07716; Telephone 201-872-1441; Telex 752233 HILARIOUS LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS RO Box 147, Liverpool, L693BX, UK.Telex627095 Contents of Volume 102 (1987) I. AUTHORS AND TITLES Barnard, Mary E. (Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park). Garcilaso’s Poetics of Subversion and the Orpheus Tapestry.......................................................................................... (May) 316 Castillo, Debra A. (Cornell Univ.). Never-Ending Story: Carmen Martin Gaite’s The Back Room ....................................................................................................................................... (Oct.) 814 Cohen, Ed (Stanford Univ.). Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desire in the Closet of Representation................................................................................................................................... (Oct.) 801 Cope, Jackson I. (Univ. of Southern California). Bernini and Roman Commedie Ridicotose............................................................................................................................................ (Mar.) 177 Crane, Susan (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick). Alison’s Incapacity and Poetic Insta­ bility in the Wife of Bath’s Tale..................................................................................................... (Jan.) 20 Dasenbrock, Reed Way (New Mexico State Univ.). Intelligibility and Meaningfulness in Multicultural Literature in English.......................................................................................... (Jan.) 10 Earl, James W. (Fordham Univ.). Hisperic Style in the Old English “Rhyming Poem” (Mar.) 187 FInch, A. R. C. (Stanford Univ.). Dickinson and Patriarchal Meter: A Theory of Metrical Codes.................................................................................................................................................. (Mar.) 166 Foster, Donald W. (Vassar Coll.). Master W. H., R.l.P.................................................. (Jan.) 42 Harwood, Britton J. (Miami Univ.). Chaucer and the Silence of History: Situating the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale.................................................................................................................... (May) 338 Kristeva, Julia (Paris, France). The Pain of Sorrow in the Modern World: The Works of Marguerite Duras........................................................................................................................ (Mar.) 138 Laurence, David (New York, New York). William Bradford’s American Sublime ... (Jan.) 55 Law, Jules David (Princeton Univ.). Joyce’s “Delicate Siamese” Equation: The Dialectic of Home in Ulysses.......................................................................................................................... (Mar.) 197 McConeghy, Patrick M. (Michigan State Univ.). Women’s Speech and Silence in Hart­ mann von Aue’s Erec...................................................................................................................... (Oct.) 772 Miller, J. Hillis (Univ. of California, Irvine). Presidential Address 1986. The Triumph of Theory, the Resistance to Reading, and the Question of the Material Base................. (May) 281 Mitchell, Lee Clark (Princeton Univ.). “When You Call Me That . . . ”: Tall Talk and Male Hegemony in The Virginian........................................................................................ (Jan.) 66 Modleski, Tanla (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee). Rape versus Mans/laughter: Hitch­ cock’s Blackmail and Feminist Interpretation........................................................................... (May) 304 Moser, Thomas C., Jr. (Stanford Univ.). “And I Mon Waxe Wod”: The Middle English “Foweles in the Frith” .................................................................................................................... (May) 326 Norris, Margot (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Narration under a Blindfold: Read­ ing Joyce’s “Clay”............................................................................................................................ (Mar.) 206 Pechter, Edward (Concordia Univ.). The New Historicism and Its Discontents: Politiciz­ ing Renaissance Drama .................................................................................................................. (May) 292 Petrey, Sandy (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook). Castration, Speech Acts, and the Realist Difference: S/Z versus Sarrasine............................................................................. (Mar.) 153 Rackin, Phyllis (Univ. of Pennsylvania). Androgyny, Mimesis, and the Marriage of the Boy Heroine on the English Renaissance Stage......................................................................... (Jan.) 29 Soyinka, Wole (Abeokuta, Nigeria). Nobel Lecture 1986. This Past Must Address Its Present................................................................................................................................................ (Oct.) 762 Vogeley, Nancy (Univ. of San Francisco). Defining the “Colonial Reader”: El Periquillo Sarniento............................................................................................................................................ (Oct.) 784 II. MISCELLANEOUS Committees and Commissions of the Association............................................................ (Dir.) 432 Constitution of the Modern Language Association.................................................... (Dir.) 468 Departmental Administrators, 1987-88 Four-Year Colleges and Universities............................................................................. (Dir.) 608 Two-Year Colleges ............................................................................................................... (Dir.) 625 Directory of Useful Addresses, 1987-88........................................................................... (Dir.) 731 Contents of Volume 102 Distribution of MLA Members............................................................................................. (Dir.) 448 Editor’s Column..................................................................... (Jan.) 3, (Mar.) 131, (May) 275, (Oct.) 755 Ethnic Studies Programs........................................................................................................ (Dir.) 635 Fellowships and Grants.......................................................................................................... (Dir.) 650 Forum........................................................................................ (Jan.) 78, (Mar.) 216, (May) 351, (Oct.) 829 Honorary Fellows of the Modern Language Association......................................... (Dir.) 475 Honorary Members of the Modern Language Association....................................... (Dir.) 474 Humanities Research Centers............................................................................................... (Dir.) 649 In Memorlam................................................................................................................................. (Dir.) 606 Language and Area Programs............................................................................................... (Dir.) 637 List of Members........................................................................................................................... (Dir.) 477 Members of the Executive Council.................................................................................... (Dir.) 428 MLA Delegate Assembly.......................................................................................................... (Dir.) 429 MLA Divisions and Discussion Groups .............................................................................. 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