Philological Quarterly back issues from March 1998:
The "Fygure" of the Market: The N-Town Cycle and East Anglian Lay Piety.
Mar 22, 1998; ... The biblical narratives in the N-Town plays--as in the mystery cycles generally--refer insistently to contemporary medieval beliefs, practices and institutions both in dialogue and in stage directions. Some of these anachronisms can be attributed to a need on the part of the dramatists to ...
Surface and Interiority: Self-Creation in Margaret Cavendish's The Claspe.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Recent criticism has generally agreed that Margaret Cavendish was one of the first English woman writers to conceive of and create a female subjecthood: Cavendish is credited with having constructed herself out of whole cloth, so to speak.(1) Current critics often perceive her ...
Thomas Clayton and the Introduction of Italian Opera to England.
Mar 22, 1998; ... An overlooked source that helps document the introduction of all-sung Italian-style opera into England is the composer `Thomas Clayton's Preface to the word book to The Passion of Sappho and Feast of Alexander, prepared for a set of concerts of English music in spring 1711.(1) In the ...
John Horne Tooke and the Grammar of Political Experience.
Mar 22, 1998; ... In his History of the Royal Society, attempting to outline the conditions under which the empirical sciences can flourish, Thomas Sprat offers a by no means unfamiliar dictum on communication. The members of the Royal Society, he reports, have "been most solicitous [about] ... the manner ...
"I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake.
Mar 22, 1998; ... The literary productions of Jack Kerouac have been persistently dogged by the misapprehension that he was an unschooled and simple recorder of the experiences that happened around him. Kerouac the writer has never been able to escape his public persona as the King of the Beats. He is often ...
Vonnegut's Melancholy.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Vonnegut has just published what he says will be his final novel. This is an appropriate time, therefore, to try to come to terms with the totality of his output. Characterizing the array of books he has produced over the last 45 years is no easy task. Although a few of his novels can ...
The Composition of Old English Poetry.(Review)
Mar 22, 1998; ... The Composition of Old English Poetry, by H. Momma. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 20. Cambridge U. Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 205. $49.95. The subject of "Kuhn's laws," in the very words of Hans Kuhn's well-known 1933 study, is "Die Wortstellung und -betonung im ...