Philological Quarterly articles from September 1998

Philological Quarterly archives from September 1998

From Anna Barbauld's Hymns In Prose to William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
September 22, 1998... When Northrop Frye refers in Fearful Symmetry to the relationship between Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as mutual satire with "double-edged irony," he uses the term "satire" in an unusual way. Frye argues that pastoral poetry...

Where "Byron Used to Ride": Locating the Victorian Travel Poet in Clough's Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus.
September 22, 1998... In the Spring of 1849, Giuseppe Mazzini, leader of the newly-declared Roman Republic, fought off attacks from French troops seeking to restore papal sovereignty over the city. At the same time, he withstood a siege of another sort: an obscure...

Something out of the Common Groove: Joyce and Originality.
September 22, 1998... ... being tantamount to inferring from the nonpresence of inverted commas (sometimes called quotation marks) on any page that its author was always constitutionally incapable of misappropriating the spoken words of others. Finnegans Wake...

T. S. Eliot and the Fragmented Selves: From "Suppressed Complex" to Sweeney Agonistes.
September 22, 1998... When lovely woman stoops to folly, we do not think of death; we think of suppressed complexes... --ALDOUS HUXLEY, Jesting Pilate (1926) T. S. Eliot, during ten years of personal stress commencing in 1915 used in poetry the psychological...

Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Naylor's Mama Day.
September 22, 1998... J'entends donc par "Femme" ce qui ne se represente pas, ce qui ne se dit pas, ce qui reste en dehors des nominations et des ideologies. -- JULIA KRISTEVA Like Cat's Cradle, An American Dream, Fiscadoro, The Name of the Rose, Gravity's...