Studies in the Humanities articles from June 2004

Studies in the Humanities archives from June 2004

"They will die last night we have lived tomorrow": traumatic displacements of the avant-garde in Bob Perelman's The Future of Memory.
June 1, 2004... [I]n reading the textual poetics of Language writers, what might seem a linguistic swerve from political engagement appears, when focused through the lens of a more historicized account, a symptom of postmodernity, where no facet of...

Deferring judgment: reading Derrida's reading against the grain (1).
June 1, 2004... In "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" Jacques Derrida states that Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" has a "possible complicity" with "the worst" (1045), by which he means the tendency to irrationalism that was...

A war for peace: poets against the war.
June 1, 2004... All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky. W.H. Auden The relation between poetry and war...

Medium cruel: Hamlet in 2000.
June 1, 2004... As canonical masterpiece. Hamlet has been subjected to every systematic method of critical analysis. Initially such analyses focused on the "problem" of Hamlet; more recently the play has served as a test of analytic theories. Theatrical...

Beyond border politics: the problematics of identity in Asian diaspora literature.
June 1, 2004... The empowering paradox of diaspora is that dwelling here assumes solidarity and connection there. But there is not necessarily a single place or an exclusivist nation.--James Clifford In the history of human civilization, the question of...

Steinbeck's plays: from realism to abstraction.(John Steinbeck)
June 1, 2004... John Steinbeck wrote three novellete-plays--Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, and Burning Bright--as experiments in a new form of drama. He was concerned that too few people saw plays and that the ideas expressed in them would therefore not be...

Hitchcock's Suspicion: reading between the lines.(Alfred Hitchcock)
June 1, 2004... Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), his fourth film in America, was based on Before the Fact, a best-seller of 1932 written by British novelist Anthony Berkeley Knox tinder the pseudonym of Francis Iles. Like the novel, the movie focuses on a...

D. H. Lawrence's Paintings.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... D. H. Lawrence's Paintings. Introduction by Keith Sagar. London. Chaucer Press. 2003. 160 Pages. Cloth 25 [pounds sterling]. From the time when Lawrence first plunged into painting during the last years of his life, his work attracted and...