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The anchorhold as symbolic space in Ancrene Wisse.
January 1, 2005... Ancrene Wisse, a guide for anchoresses written in the early thirteenth century, (1) uses a number of provocative images to describe and theorize the small cell in which the anchoress was to enclose herself for life. In the course of Ancrene...
Slanderers and saints: the function of slander in The Book of Margery Kempe.
January 1, 2005... [F]or he hade pe wordes of euerlastynge life. And so pat was sklandre to pe bade, was vertuese to pe gode.
--Nicholas Love, The Mirror of the Blessed Lire of Jesus Christ (1)
In chapter nine of Book Two of The Book of Margery Kempe,...
Translating toward eternity: Dryden's final aspiration.(John Dryden)
January 1, 2005... "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." (1 Corinthians 13:11)
Of all John Dryden's prefatorial disclosures, it would be difficult to find...
Taking care: a slightly Levinasian reading of Dombey and Son.
January 1, 2005... Our quaint metaphysical opinions in an hour of anguish are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In 1988, Arion Press of San Francisco published a fine-press edition of Laurence Sterne's Life...
Marketing middlebrow feminism: Elizabeth von Arnim, the new woman and the fin-de-siecle book market.
January 1, 2005... The monthly report of the libraries all over the country, as printed in 'The Critic' this month, shows that the most popular book of the hour is 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden.' But who wrote the book neither author nor publisher will tell....
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook by Victor Klemperer. Translated by Martin Brady. London: The Athlone Press, 2000. 296 pp. Hardback price $90.
Two factors kept the German academic Victor...