Studies in the Humanities articles from December 2000

Studies in the Humanities archives from December 2000

"Which i's his I?": surrealist reflections in Elizabeth Bishop's Mirror (1).(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than...

Culture in translation: an inquiry into global/local negotiation.
December 1, 2000... Why has translatability of cultures become an issue? -- Wolfgang Iser Cultural translation, which is usually associated with the notion of cross-cultural encounter, implies change, transformation and appropriation of a culture in different...

Visions and revisions of Laurence Olivier in the Hamlet films of Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... While the Ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet appears in only three scenes and speaks in but two of them, the figure of the former king plays a central role in the play. "Mark me," the specter commands upon first appearing before the prince, who,...

The postmodern turn in Robert Lowell's poetry.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... Robert Lowell began his career at the height of Modernism, and, mentored by Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom, he began auspiciously. Tate wrote in an introduction to Land of Unlikeness, T. S. Eliot's recent prediction that we should soon...

Resistances of Psychoanalysis. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Jacques Derrida. Resistances of Psychoanalysis. Trans. Peggy Kamuf and Michael Nass. Stanford University Press. 1998. 200 pages. Cloth $42.00. Paper $15.95. Resistances of Psychoanalysis is a collection of three lectures delivered by...

Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger, eds. Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. 264 pages. Cloth $45.00. Paper $17.50. Compiling essays by writers and critics from the United...

Hawthorne and Women, Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... John L. Idol and Melinda M. Ponder, editors. Hawthorne and Women, Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition. University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. 323 pages. Cloth $60.00. Paper $19.95. In Hawthorne and Women, five groups of...

Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Laura Hanft Korobkin. Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. Columbia University Press. 1998. 272 pages. Cloth $52.00. Paper $18.50. "Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of...

Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Karen Laughlin and Catherine Schuler. Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics. Associated University Presses. 1995. 331 pages. Cloth $45.00. The book attempts to understand feminist aesthetics as part of the plurality of contemporary feminist...

Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Patrick D. Murphy. Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature. University Press of Virginia. 2000. 254 pages. Cloth $55.00. Paper $18.50. Patrick D. Murphy, author of an influential book in the field of ecocriticism,...

The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Geoffrey Sanborn. The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader. Duke University Press. 1998. 264 pages. Cloth $42.95. Paper $18.95. The Sign of the Cannibal is Geoffrey's Sanborn's attempt to better understand...

The Image of Manhood in Early Modem Literature: Viewing the Male. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Andrew P. Williams, ed. The Image of Manhood in Early Modem Literature: Viewing the Male. Greenwood Press. 1999. 216 pages. Cloth $55.00. In his introduction, Andrew P. Williams prefaces this edited collection of essays on masculinity and...

Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2000... Dana A. Williams. Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. 1998. 152 pages. Cloth $55.00. One very initial but essential point that any reader of this book might be interested in at the...

Recent books of interest.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2000... These recently received books of interest are listed because of the breadth or range of their subject matter or freshness of their approach. Listing of a book here does not preclude a noting or review of that book. Pamela R. Backscheider,...