Style articles from December 1996

Style archives from December 1996

Gerard Genette: an Anglo-French checklist to 1996. (bibliography of writer Gerard Genette)
December 22, 1996... This enumerative bibliography of Gerard Genette's writings is divided into two sections, the first listing published books (including volumes edited) and the second listing nonbook publications. The order is chronological by date of publication...

Second supplement to a checklist of English translations of M.M. Bakhtin and His Circle. (writer Mikhail Bakhtin)
December 22, 1996... This is a second - and, for the moment, final - supplement to the checklist of English translations of writings by Mikhail Bakhtin and His Circle (including Pavel Medvedev and Valentin Voloshinov) that I published in Style 27.4 (Winter 1993):...

Michael Riffaterre: a checklist of writings through 1996.
December 22, 1996... Relatively little of Michael Riffaterre's prodigious output has been collected in book form, and the volumes of the MLA Bibliography list only about half of his articles; my hope is that this listing will help fill in the bibliographical gaps and...

Part of the way with verbal play: the ludic mode in scholarly titling.
December 22, 1996... Umberto Eco, in Postscript to The Name of the Rose, argues that good titles must "muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them," and he explains that he decided on The Name of the Rose because of the polysemy of the word "rose" in our culture:...

Recent work in critical theory. (bibliography of recently published books from the Northern Illinois University libraries)
December 22, 1996... This alphabetically arranged bibliography annotates recently published books and is based primarily on materials coming into the Northern Illinois University libraries between June 1995 and July 1996. Inclusion does not mean exclusion in a...