Nebuchadnezzar's
Children
Conventions ot Madness in Middle
English Literature
Penelope B. R. Doob
It
has generally been recognized that
madmen and wild men abound in
medieval literature, but the cultural
significance and literary uses of their
madness have not been fully
appreciated. This book attempts to
remedy this deficiency by answering
two important questions: What does
madness generally mean in medieval
society and literature, and how do
medieval attitudes affect the literary
uses and meanings of madness.
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In Bluebeard's
Castle
Some Notes Towards the Redefinition
at Culture
George Steiner $I.95
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
Threats Instead
of Trees
Michael Ryan
"Michael Ryan is a poet of secrets and
dislocations. Every word of his counts.
The air of his poems is charged and
ominous. Even the love poems admit
feelings of doubt and dread. Their
order embraces a violent reality. The
imagination that presides over his
work is elusive, complex, and
singularly restless."-Stanley Kunitz
Yale Series of Younger Poets, 69
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Conrad's
Romanticism
David Thorburn
This challenging book offers a
revisionist account of Joseph Conrad's
place in literary history, emphasizing
affinities with the nineteenth century
and with certain important strains in
Romanticism. David Thorburn sees
Conrad as a less nihilistic, less
apocalyptic writer than is commonly
assumed, a novelist whose startlingly
uneven
oellvre
has much to tell us
about the infirmities but also the
resilience of the Romantic imagination
in the earlier twentieth century. $8.95
