Style articles from June 1997

Style archives from June 1997

Family systems psychotherapy, literary character, and literature: an introduction.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
June 22, 1997... The grammar of narrative is . . . fraught with the same ambiguities - arising from the same social ambivalences - that distinguish the biogrammar itself. Male versus female, self versus kin, kin versus non-kin, group versus group - these...

"Only connecting" with the family: class, culture, and narrative therapy in E.M. Forster's 'Howards End.'(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
June 22, 1997... Although David Lodge's Nice Work (1988) provides a surprising narrative of reconciliation between the academy and industry, its concluding pages allude to an even more pervasive cultural dilemma that has haunted English life for centuries - the...

"Choking on my own saliva": Henry Miller's bourgeois family Christmas in 'Nexus.'(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
June 22, 1997... Due to his hyperfragmented narrative style and abiding interest in sexual candor, Henry Miller remains one of American literature's most enduring literary gangsters, a figure chided both for supposedly propounding a "theology of the cunt"...

"Anaconda love": parental enmeshment in Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon.'(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
June 22, 1997... I think that if people put so much emphasis on family and children, it is because they live in great isolation; they have no friends, no love, no affection, nobody. They are alone; therefore they have children in order to have somebody. Simone...

Anne Tyler's 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant': a critical feast.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
June 22, 1997... John V. Knapp makes the case that psychological approaches to literary interpretation can be enhanced by broadening the hermeneutic base to include a variety of psycho-social perspectives.(1) Those of us involved in teaching literature know the...

The family dynamics of the reception of art.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
June 22, 1997... In our verbal accounts of how we read literature, see a work of art, or hear music, usually the first thing that happens is that the "we" disappears and is replaced by an "T": the focus shifts to the individual apprehending the work of art in...

Performativity and Performance.
June 22, 1997... When J. L. Austin delivered the William James Lectures at Harvard University in 1955, he had a simple aim in mind. Dissatisfied with what he considered the reigning view on language at the time, a view claiming that sentences describe either a...

Mimologics.
June 22, 1997... Tracing the fantasy of a language whose very substance imitates the nature it represents, setting out from Plato's Cratylus and ending with work in twentieth-century linguistics, Gerard Genette's Mimologiques: Voyage en Cratylie is a formidable...

Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph.
June 22, 1997... Despite the ostensibly interminable commentary that scholars of recent decades have produced on the writings of Samuel Beckett, his work remains elusive. Just as we feel prepared to close in on this French-writing Irishman and place a...

The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays.
June 22, 1997... Kurt Vonnegut, whose publishing history spans nearly half a century - beginning in 1950 with his forays into short fiction and continuing since the publication of Player Piano in 1952 with his innovative experiments in the fictional long form -...