Studies in the Humanities articles from June 2000

Studies in the Humanities archives from June 2000

Truth in adversaries: Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Joseph Conard's "The Duel".(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2000... He felt an irrational tenderness towards his old adversary and appreciated emotionally the murderous absurdity their encounter had introduced into his life. -- Joseph Conrad, "The Duel" The Duellists is not an art film. While I was...

An(other) way to mean: a Lacanian reading of Langston Hughes' Montage of a Dream Deferred.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2000... With the recent and welcome publication of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, (1) the "near canonical" stature of America's minister of jazz poetry appears secured, if not confirmed. The quotation marks are double-edged: few other poets...

Gender and self-fashioning.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2000... At first glance, the festive world of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the dark world of his Othello, written a few years later, have little in common. There are, however, surprising similarities between two very unlike characters -- Viola and...

The emasculation of narrative desire: Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2000... In a 1992 essay entitled "Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and the Principles of Pleasure," Susan Winnett argues against the "gender bias of contemporary narratology" (506). According to Winnett, the "erotics of reading" promoted by...

The sound of loneliness: Rear Window's soundtrack.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2000... Despite the vast critical attention it has received, one aspect of Rear Window remains underappreciated and under-analyzed: its soundtrack. Elizabeth Weiss went a long way towards rectifying that situation in the chapter on Rear Window in her...

Lukacs after Communism: Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... Eva L. Corredor. Lukacs after Communism: Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals. Duke University Press. 1997. 103 pages. Paper $19.95. Eva Corredor's collection of interviews analyzes the contemporary relevance of the Hungarian...

Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... Ellis, Jacqueline. Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 1998. 200 pages. Cloth $49.95. Paper $24.95. Studies of the working class have taken on a new,...

Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... Barbara T. Gates, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World. University of Chicago Press. 1998. 293 pages. Paper $20.00. In Kindred Nature, Barbara Gates, a veteran feminist and environmental writing critic...

Lesbian Configurations. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... renee c. hoogland. Lesbian Configurations. Columbia University Press. 1997. 163 pages. Cloth $45.00. In Lesbian Configurations, renee c. hoogland takes on a tremendously difficult and timely task and, almost amazingly, accomplishes it in...

The Preface of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... John H. Pearson. The Preface of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. Penn State University Press. 1997. 168 pages. Paper $28.50. For the reader of modern sensibilities, James' prefaces present something of a quandary. Given a postmodern...

Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: "Keeping You Safe Beside Me" and Robert Pinsky: Our Premier Poet Scholar. (Book Reviews).(Video Recording Review)
June 1, 2000... Ronald G. Shafer. Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: "Keeping You Safe Beside Me" and Robert Pinsky: Our Premier Poet Scholar. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Videotapes $49.95 each or $75.00 for both. In 1997, Indiana University of...

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia University Press. 1997. 200 pages. Cloth $45.00. Paper $16.50. Rosemarie Garland Thomson's first book is a valuable...

The Postmodern Novel in Latin America: Politics, Culture, and the Crisis of Truth. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... Raymond L. Williams. The Postmodern Novel in Latin America: Politics, Culture, and the Crisis of Truth. St. Martin's Press. 1997. 150 pages. Paper $16.95. In chapter four "Postmodernities in the Southern Cone," Williams asserts that "Latin...

The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2000... Denise J. Youngblood. The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918. University of Wisconsin Press. 1999. 197 pages. Cloth $49.95. The idea that the movies are "a magic mirror," a reflection of society, seems trite by now. It is a...

Recent books of interest.(Bibliography)
June 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. Horace M. Albright and...