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Editorial statement.
September 22, 2007... From its inception after the end of the First World War, PQ has published contributions in many genres of literary scholarship and has opened its pages to a wide range of critical methodologies. One constant over the years, however, has been its commitment to the study of textuality in its...
Caring for the dead in The Fortunes of Men.
September 22, 2007... Whether it is an effect of what was once called the "somber cast of the Teutonic mind" or of St. Benedict's dictum to "have death always before our eyes," the Old English poetic tradition seems unusually given to depictions of the indignities suffered by dead bodies. (1) A handful of verse...
The mimesis of time in Hamlet.
September 22, 2007... Hamlet opens on intense attention to time, as the sentries "watch the minutes of this night" (1.1.30). (1) The emphasis gains thematic depth when Hamlet formulates his predicament in terms of temporal dislocation: "The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it...
Locating Byron: languages, voices, and displaced utterances.
September 22, 2007... Exhausted and excited after crossing the Alps and sailing on Lake Maggiore, Byron arrived in Milan on 12 October 1816 and, the following day, wrote to his half-sister Augusta with no small degree of satisfaction: "I have got to Milan." (1) He had finally reached Italy. Soon after his arrival,...
Translation and adaptation in Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh.
September 22, 2007... Dost thou think Alexander look'd o' this fashion i' the earth?
Hamlet, 5.1.217
Because of the special (some would say insurmountable) difficulties posed by the genre, literary translations commonly fail or succeed with critics based on their local faults or merits. (1) The analytical...