Style articles from December 2007

Style archives from December 2007

Constructing cognitive scaffolding through embodied receptiveness: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
December 22, 2007... I. Truth in Timbre In a passage close to the beginning of The Bluest Eye, Claudia, the narrator, and her sister Frieda, are dutifully washing jam jars while their mother chats with her friends in the kitchen. Claudia compares the...

Who evaluates whom and what in Jane Austen's novels?
December 22, 2007... 1 Many commentators of Jane Austen's fiction have expressed the view that she is particularly difficult to catch at her narrative game. Speaking of E, (1) almost universally held to be the most complex and the most elusive of her novels,...

Two Medieval Hebrew devotional poems convention, evaluation, and "platonic" vs "metaphysical" poetry.
December 22, 2007... "There is a kind of academic critic who considers it his duty to approve of everything, however inferior, provided it was produced in the past, and who will spend much patient labor editing and historically justifying a bad eighteenth century...

Performance and cognitive literary studies: theory and practice.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Review of Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn. Edited by Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart. London, Routledge, 2007. The recognition that all brain processes are bodily processes, and thus that cognition...

Mark Blackwell (ed.). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Mark Blackwell (ed.). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2007. $62.50 365 pp ISBN 10:0-8387-5666-2 "I am sure that Jane Austen purists the world over are...

Jerome McGann. The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Jerome McGann. The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii, 239 pp. Illus. Paper, $22.00 (ISBN 978-0-226-50085-0). Jerome McGann, John Stuart Bryan Professor at the University of...

Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble. Textual Patterns: Key Words and Corpus Analysis in Language Education.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble. Textual Patterns: Key Words and Corpus Analysis in Language Education. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006. x + 203 pp. $ 39.95 Paper. This ten-chapter book is divided in half, roughly between the...

Peter Howarth. British Poetry in the Age of Modernism.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Peter Howarth. British Poetry in the Age of Modernism. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge UP, 2005. $80.00 Peter Howarth's British Poetry in the Age of Modernism begins with an historical trajectory, asserting that the apparent dichotomy of...

Simon Dentith. Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Simon Dentith. Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 245 pp. $85.00 cloth. Simon Dentith's Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain opens with an epigraph: "Is Achilles possible with powder and...

Donald Hawes. Charles Dickens.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Donald Hawes. Charles Dickens. London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. vi +167. $19.95. This book is part of series by Continuum called Writers' Lives. Here is their own description of the series: "Concise, accessible introductions to major writers...

Dan McIntyre. Point of View in Plays: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Viewpoint in Drama and Other Text-types.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Dan McIntyre. Point of View in Plays: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Viewpoint in Drama and Other Text-types. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. 203 pp. $119 hardbound. Point of View in Plays suggests that a good deal of attention has...

Mary Ann Caws. Surprised in Translation.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Mary Ann Caws. Surprised in Translation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. xi + 145 pp. $25.00 cloth. Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New...