Philological Quarterly articles from June 2001

Philological Quarterly archives from June 2001

A riddle on the three orders in the Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae?
June 22, 2001... Vidi bipedem super tripodem sedentem, cecidit bipes, corruit tripes. (1) I saw a "two-foot" sitting on a "three-foot"; the "two-foot" fell, the "three-foot" collapsed. This riddle occurs in the Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae and in the recent...

What ails Chaucer's Cook? Spiritual alchemy and the ending of The Canterbury Tales.(Geoffrey Chaucer)
June 22, 2001... [Alchemy] treats of the imperfect bodies of minerals, and teaches how to perfect them.... We compose this book of things perfecting and corrupting... because contraries set near each other are more clearly manifested. Geber, Sum of...

Seeing double: theatrical spectatorship in Mansfield Park.
June 22, 2001... Jane Austen's inclusion of Lovers' Vows in Mansfield Park has engendered a debate revolving around the following two questions: how did Austen read Lovers' Vows and did she approve of the ideas it contained? (1) Many scholars have answered the...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the interrogative lyric.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Everywhere in D. G. Rossetti's poetry there are questions. Their importance and frequency increase over Rossetti's lifetime. For example, in the 1850 Germ version of The Blessed Damozel there are two clusters of questions. In the first, the...

The Beckettian mimesis of pain.(Samuel Beckett)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... In his study of Samuel Beckett, Leslie Hill complains that "the critical response to the task of interpreting Beckett's work has been, to a large degree, bland and unconvincing." (1) Whether or not Hill's assessment is correct, criticism of...

Books received.
June 22, 2001... LANGUAGE Turner, Lorenzo Dow. Africanism in the Gullah Dialect. New intro. By Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery. U. of South Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xli + 321. $21.95 paper. CLASSICS INCLUDING LATER LATIN Barrett,...