Studies in the Novel articles from June 2004

Studies in the Novel archives from June 2004

Monsters, marbles, and miniatures: Mary Shelley's reform aesthetic.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... I turn without shrinking from cloud-borne angels, from prophets, sibyls, and heroic warriors, to an old woman bending over her flower-pot.... "Foh!" says my idealistic friend, "what vulgar details! What good is there in taking...

A matter of love or death: Hemingway's developing psychosexuality in For Whom The Bell Tolls.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... The recuperation of Ernest Hemingway as a writer sensitive to problems of gender and sexuality has become almost a critical commonplace in the last decade or so. Increasingly, his work is investigated as evidence that the macho public image he...

"You have been framed": the function of ekphrasis for the representation of women in John Banville's trilogy (The Book of Evidence, Ghosts, Athena).(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... John Banville's fiction, full as it is of allusions to literature, art, and science, is one of the supreme examples of intertextuality and intermediality in contemporary fiction. Whereas his acclaimed tetralogy (Dr. Copernicus [1976], Kepler...

Textual hauntings: narrating history, memory, and silence in The English Patient.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... "[T]rauma opens up and challenges us to a new kind of listening, the witnessing, precisely, of impossibility." --Cathy Caruth In 1996, Anthony Minghella's cinematic adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English...

Why Jimmy wears a suit: white, black, and working class in The Commitments.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Discussion of Roddy Doyle's works tends to focus, positively or negatively, on his use of language. Writing in what has been variously referred to as Dublinese, a Northside dialect, and plain profanity, Doyle foregrounds voices seldom occupying...

Taking sides.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... LEAH PRICE, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 224 pp. $54.95. NEIL MCCAW. George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past. London:...

Cowan, James C. D. H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... COWAN, JAMES C. D. H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2002. 225 + xv pp. $50.00 In the past decade or so there have been three noticeable trends in D. H. Lawrence criticism: an inclination to...

Dalgarno, Emily. Virginia Woolf and the Visible World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... DALGARNO, EMILY. Virginia Woolf and the Visible World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 219 pp. $54.95. Emily Delgarno's interdisciplinary investigation, Virginia Woolf and the Visible World, provides important insights into...

Hitchens, Christopher. Why Orwell Matters.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER. Why Orwell Matters. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 211 pp. $24.00. Well known for contentious attacks on revered figures, Hitchens now makes a penetrating, spirited and convincing defense of his intellectual hero...

Hodson, Sara S. and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... HODSON, SARA S. AND JEANNE CAMPBELL REESMAN, EDS. Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2002. 223 pp. $37.95. These essays are collected from the presentations given at the fourth biennial meeting of...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2004... In the Spring, 2004 issue (vol.36, no. 1), part of Earl G. Ingersoll's review of Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead (126) was sheared off in the printing process. We apologize for this error and print the corrected passage below: ...