Studies in the Humanities articles from June 1 2001

Studies in the Humanities archives from June 1 2001

Duncan, Macbeth, and the Thane of Cawdor.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2001... Cursory study of Shakespeare's representations throughout the canon of inherited or conferred titles conveys the impression of a disturbing disjunction between them and their bearer's intrinsic worth. Late in I Henry VI, Sir William Lucy asks,...

Desire, the gaze and suture in the novel and the film: The Remains of the Day.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2001... It is impossible to begin an exploration of the usefulness of psychoanalytic texts in the reading of literary and film texts without at least a brief history of this problematic critical approach. Well before the end of the past century,...

Mystical experience in Annie Dillard's "Total Eclipse" and "Lenses".(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2001... I. MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AND LITERATURE In her book The Space Between: Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard, Sandra Johnson makes an interesting point right up front about the "illuminated moment" which is helpful in its own...

"An illogical stab of doubt": avant-garde drama, cinema, and queerness.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2001... In 1945 Gertrude Stein wrote that America was the oldest country in the world because it was the first country to enter the twentieth century. She argued that the United States entered the twentieth century in the 1880s "before any other...

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: film, intertext, and ideology.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2001... A media event hypertrophied as vying with the Kennedy assassination, the Emmy Award-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines's 1971 novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (John Korty), which aired on CBS in January 1974, provoked...

Sambo subjects: "declining the stereotype" in Suzan-Lori Parks's The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2001... The focal presence of stereotyped characters in Suzan-Lori Parks's second play (1) The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World causes discomfiture as well as a sense of alienation in its readers/spectators. And this is not a...

Recent books of interest.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2001... 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. Steve Adams. The Best &...