Studies in the Humanities articles from December 2004

Studies in the Humanities archives from December 2004

Beckett for beginners.(Samuel Beckett's work)
December 1, 2004... I Samuel Beckett's work, in whole and in part, intimates that beginnings are not only arbitrary but creel--cruel because they are arbitrary and also because they are exclusive, selecting one point of entry and focus at the expense of...

The attack on surrealism in Elizabeth Bishop's Darwin letter.
December 1, 2004... In the mid-sixties, while writing what was to be the first book-length study of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, Anne Stevenson sent Bishop a rough outline of the book's chapters. The second of these was to be called "The Artist," and, in it,...

How memory haunts: the impact of trauma on Vietnamese immigrant identity in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge.
December 1, 2004... The growing interest that surrounds representations of trauma and traumatic memory in literature appears to be fueled, in part, by the critical stance that traumatic experience precludes knowledge and language. Cathy Caruth argues that trauma...

Dostoevsky's other Quixote.(influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote on Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot)
December 1, 2004... The influence of Cervantes' Don Quixote on Dostoevsky's The Idiot is well documented and profound. As Dostoevsky's character Aglaia Epanchin explains, Prince Myshkin is Quixote, "only serious and not comic" (The Idiot 241; pt.2, ch.6). But...

Openness to contingency: Huckleberry Finn and the morality of phronesis.
December 1, 2004... Gerald Bruns' book, Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory, makes some compelling claims about the philosophical climate of our time. Drawing mainly on Stanley Cavell, but also on philosophers as...

Gale, Richard M. The Philosophy of William James: An Introduction.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Gale, Richard M. The Philosophy of William James: An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2005. The multi-faceted writings of William James have often led critics to borrow what they need from him in order to prove their ideas and...

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Ed. Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Ed. Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture. University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 265 pages. In his introduction to Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture, Jeffrey R. Di Leo points out that "Many would like to think...

Recent books of interest.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2004... Ayres, Brenda, Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels. The Subversion of Domestic Ideology. Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 168. Greenwood Publishing Group. 200 pages. Cloth $87.95; Paper $55.00 Bal, Meike. Travelling Concepts In The...