Philological Quarterly articles from March 2003

Philological Quarterly archives from March 2003

Brother as problem in the Troilus.(Troilus and Criseyde)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Even before Diomedes arrives in the Greek camp with Criseyde, for whom the Trojans have exchanged the seemingly more valuable Antenor, the bold Greek hero positions himself as an inevitability. One of the requests he makes of Criseyde, in 21...

Supra-natural creation in Dunbar's "The Goldyn Targe".(William Dunbar)
March 22, 2003... Recent critical attention for William Dunbar's poem, "The Goldyn Targe," has revolved around the success or failure of the speaker's battles with carnal desires in a bucolic setting. (1) Dunbar's admixture of description and personification to...

Captivating the orient: the marquis de Renoncour's Turkish adventure.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... The marquis de Renoncour plays perhaps the most important "supporting role" in the history of eighteenth-century French literature. Renoncour's cameo appearance is so subtle, however, that many forget that he is in fact the invisible...

Scandalous categories: classifying the memoirs of unconventional women.
March 22, 2003... In the last two decades, feminist scholars have recuperated a number of "scandalous memoirs," life-writings by and about transgressive women in the eighteenth century. As a result, works from Laetitia Pilkington's groundbreaking Memoirs...

Nabokov's Primer: letters and numbers in the real life of Sebastian Knight.(Vladimir Nabokov, fictional real life)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Sebastian Knight, a cipher in a novel, possesses no real life; what Nabokov labels as The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is, of course, mislabeled inasmuch as the words apply to the story the book coyly tells, as if the life were being recounted...