Style articles from December 1997

Style archives from December 1997

Recent work in critical theory.(Bibliography)
December 22, 1997... This alphabetically arranged bibliography annotates recently published books and is based primarily on materials coming into the Northern Illinois University libraries between July 1996 and August 1997. Inclusion does not mean exclusion in a...

Tzvetan Todorov: an Anglo-French checklist to 1995.(Bibliography)
December 22, 1997... This is a listing of all of Tzvetan Todorov's French publications through 1995, and of all the English translations of them (a few of these dating from 1996 or '97). The list is divided into two parts, the first for books and anthologies...

A catalogue of rhetorical and other literary terms from American literature and oratory.
December 22, 1997... The editors of Style have very kindly consented to publish this prospectus of my unpublished textbook, An Introduction to Style in American Literature and Oratory. In addition to an extensive bibliography, the project consists of a lengthy...

The restless ghost of the new criticism.(review of book 'The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory: Connections and Continuities,' edited by William J. Spurlin and Michael Fischer)
December 22, 1997... Why won't the New Criticism simply go away? It is the ghost of Hamlet's father, insisting upon returning yet again, always raising difficult, unsettling, seemingly insoluble questions: What does it really say to us? What does it mean? "Whither...

The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory: Connections and Continuities.(Review)
December 22, 1997... William J. Spurlin, and Michael Fischer, eds. New York: Garland Publishers, 1995. xxxix + 432 pp. $73.00 cloth. Why won't the New Criticism simply go away? It is the ghost of Hamlet's father, insisting upon returning yet again, always...