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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2000
An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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Studies in the Novel archives from March 2000
ROBERT AUDLEY'S PROFESSION.
March 22, 2000... Critical discussion of Lady Audley's Secret has recently shifted its focus from Lady Audley's madness to Robert Audley's masculinity. Thus, Richard Nemesvari maintains that through her treatment of Robert Audley's repressed homoerotic desires...
CULTURAL PSYCHOSIS ON THE FRONTIER: THE WORK OF THE DARKNESS IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S HEART OF DARKNESS.
March 22, 2000... Therein consists the most elementary formal definition of psychosis: the massive presence of some real that fills out and blocks the perspective openness which is constitutive of "reality."
Slavoj Zizek, "Grimaces of the Real"(1)
Heart...
THE FLESH AND THE WORD: THE EVOLUTION OF A METAPHYSIC IN THE EARLY WORK OF D. H. LAWRENCE.
March 22, 2000... In their joint Preface the three authors of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence raise certain important issues regarding his perception of identity, especially the ambiguous relationship between what they see as its continuities and its...
READING AND TRANSLATING ROMANCE IN HENRY GREEN'S BACK.
March 22, 2000... I have finished reading Back with intense interest. No one but you could have written it or any part of it (except the French pastiche of which hereafter). The ingenious symbolism--roses roses all the way--excited envy... And the `married &...
ADVANCING THE DIALOGUE: READING PAUL SCOTT'S RAJ QUARTET.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Peter Childs's analysis of Paul Scott's panoramic treatment of the British in India offers a new voice to Quartet scholarship, the voice of an ever increasing number of readers who are well-versed in Scott's novels and eager to enter into a...
Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel.(Review)
March 22, 2000... ANNESLEY, JAMES. Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel (New York: St. Martin's Press). 175 pp. $55.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
James Annesley's Blank Fictions and Michael Wood's Children of Silence are two...
Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction.(Review)
March 22, 2000... WOOD, MICHAEL. Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction (New York: Columbia University Press). 241 pp. $22.95.
James Annesley's Blank Fictions and Michael Wood's Children of Silence are two interesting, but very different, surveys of...
Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed.(Review)
March 22, 2000... FOWLER, Doreen. Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997). 240 pp. $35.00.
Professor Doreen Fowler, who has written extensively on William Faulkner and co-edited nearly a dozen volumes of...
Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery.(Review)
March 22, 2000... KOROBKIN, LAURA HANFT. Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). 247 pp. $49.50 cloth; $18.50 paper.
Toward the end of my undergraduate education, an...
Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West.(Review)
March 22, 2000... KOWALEWSKI, MICHAEL, ed., Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 304. pp. $24.95 paper.
What's in a region? If the region is the American West, the variety of its...
Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent.(Review)
March 22, 2000... LI, DAVID LEIWEI. Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998). 261 pp. $45.00.
Imagining the Nation is a well-written, engaging book which addresses key issues in...
The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader.(Review)
March 22, 2000... SANBORN, GEOFFREY. The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998). 254 pp. $49.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.
The Sign of the Cannibal shows Melville to be a writer for our times,...
Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature.(Review)
March 22, 2000... SCHWARZ, DANIEL R. Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). 244 pages. $45.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
In the sixth chapter of Reconfiguring...
Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology.(Review)
March 22, 2000... TABBI, JOSEPH AND MICHAEL WUTZ, eds. Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997). 315 pp. $16.95.
In its intriguing assembly of discussions of modern American, German, French and Austrian...
Political Fiction and the American Self.(Review)
March 22, 2000... WHALEN-BRIDGE, JOHN. Political Fiction and the American Self (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998). 206 pp. $39.95.
In this study of American political fiction ranging from Moby-Dick to Mailer's Harlot's Ghost and Morrison's Sula,...