ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH STUDIES - IN THIS ISSUE American Scholar, Arizona Quarterly, Bull. of the N.Y. Public Library

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ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH STUDIES is an official publication of the National Council of Teachers of English, presenting summarized scholarly content. The issue lists numerous periodicals and sections under “IN THIS ISSUE,” followed by an index with numbered entries. Several entries provide interpretive abstracts of literary figures and works, including discussion of modern art salons, detective fiction trends, and close readings of T.S. Eliot’s “Gerontion.”

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ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH STUDIES

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N.4 # ABSTRACTSOFENGLISH STUDIES An Official PublicationofThe National Council of Teachers of English IN THIS ISSUE:American Scholar,Arizona Quarterly,Bull.of the N.Y.Public Library,Bull-Southern University,Carnegie Alumnus,CEACritic,Classical Journal,College and Research Libraries,College Eng-lish,Colorado Quarterly,Comparative Literature,Dietsche Warandeen Belfort,Educational Theatre Journal,English Fiction in Transition(1880-1920),English Journal,Etudes Anglaises,Graduate Student ofEnglish,Hibbert Journal,Hudson Review,Kansas Magazine,Kirke ogKultur,Modern Drama,Modern Language Notes,Month,New Leader,New Republic,North Carolina Folklore,Notes &Queries,Partisan Re-view,Personalist,Philological Quarterly,Poetry,Princeton Univ.Lib.Chronicle,Queen's Quarterly,Reporter,Romance Philology,Speculum,Studies in Philology,Thoreau Society Bull,Trace,Universities and LeftReview,University of Toronto Quarterly,De Vlaamse Gids,WesternHumanities Review,William and Mary Quarterly.INDEX. 1716.Saarinen,Aline B.The Steins in Paris,"pp.437-448.De-spite their petulant disputes as to who discovered or understoodwhom,the Steins(Gertrude,Leo,Michael,and Michael's wife Sarah)"altered the whole atmosphere of modern art.!The Leo-Gertrudecollection of modern paintings drew to the Saturday evening gather-ings at 27 rue de Fleurus a spectacular group of artists,dealers,collectors,and intellectuals,including Henri Matisse and PabloPicasso,who met each other for the first time in the Stein salon.Less exuberant rival Saturday nights were held by the Michael Steins,the walls of whose home on the rue Madame were decorated exclu-sively with Matisses.As a publicist and energizer,Gertrude wasof particular importance in increasing the stature of modern artiststhrough her numerous "Portraits." 1717.Barzun,Jacques."Suspense Suspended,"pp.496,498,500,504,506,508.Except for the productions of old masters likeJosephine Tey,Agatha Christie,and Rex Stout,this year's crop ofdetective novels offers too little detection and too much absurd con-fusion and irrelevant bric-a-brac in a vain effort by their authorsto adapt the genre to effects created by Faulkner,Virginia_Woolf,Joyce,Ka fka,et al.-Henry B.Rule AR1ZONA QUARTERLY,XIV:2,Summer 1958. 1718.Vickery,John B."Gerontion:The Nature of Death and Im-mortality,"Pp.101-115.T.S.Eliot's poem Gerontion operates atfour levels of subject and image.."The first,the level of the indi-vidual man,serves as the focus of the three other levels:religious,natural,and historical.Gerontion creates a mental world where"religious,natural,and historical events of different periods andtimes exist simultaneously;and the man becomes coterminous andsynonymous with his world."The phrases Ian old man and "a boy!represent the individual;the image of the goat implies the religious,which ...becomes explicit in the line 'Signs are taken for wonders¹;the phrases "in a dry month"and "waiting for rain"introduce thenatural;the historical is "found to be the senses and body of hu-manity.""On every level there is a dialectical interrelation of termsand images...." ARIZONA QUARTERLY,XIV:3,Autumn 1958. 1719.Baldner,Ralph W."Ezra Pound:1mage of Theophile Gautier,"Pp.246-256.There are many likenesses between Ezra Pound andTheophile Gautier which probably have come about because of Pound'sexposure to Gautier(Emaux et Camées and Ripostes about 1910-1912)during his campaign for a new English poetry."Pound sawEnglish poetry in about the same situation as Gautier had seen Frenchromantic poetry...Gautier's aims were exactly what Pound neededfor his reforms..."Both Pound and Gautier were energetic leaders;both had pupils who surpas sed them—Eliot and Baudelaire;both werefascinated by Chinese culture and poetry;both have Rabelaisianspeech mannerisms;both began in other professions—Pound aprofessor-poet,Cautier a painter-poet."Pound might say with Ernest Feydeau:'I owe to Gautier my knowledge of the soundestprinciples of writing.!-Charles Tate BULLET

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It is described as an official publication of the National Council of Teachers of English.

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It includes a list of journals under “IN THIS ISSUE,” followed by an “INDEX” of numbered entries.

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The indexed items provide abstracts and literary-critical discussion of authors, works, and related themes, such as modern art, detective fiction, and Eliot’s poetry.

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