Style articles from June 2001

Style archives from June 2001

"Sounds that creep inside you": female narration and voiceover in the films of Jane Campion.
June 22, 2001... I. Dangerous Voices Jane Campion's film The Piano (1993) generated intense and dramatically polarized debate, especially among women. (1) While some found the film a mesmerizing and masterful depiction of a decidedly female sensibility and...

Losing her voice: silencing two daughters of Hollywood.
June 22, 2001... When Daisy Clover begins screaming, hurling her body against the glass of the recording booth, it is as if her voice has disappeared. Displaced in the cavernous darkness of the sound-stage, her voice ricochets from the antiseptic, elevated...

Orlando's sister, or Sally Potter does Virginia Woolf in a voice of her own.
June 22, 2001... For decades, the study of film adaptation has been troubled by questions of fidelity. Too often, adaptation studies have merely compared films to their literary sources, a "tiresome" endeavor, as Dudley Andrew points Out, that inevitably...

His story next to hers: masochism and (inter)subjectivity in Letter From An Unknown Woman.
June 22, 2001... Much of the most animated current feminist theory is concerned with critiquing the premises that underlie identity formulation as it has been understood and, particularly, as it manifests itself as gender. Though their arguments have different...

Complicity in The Age of Innocence.
June 22, 2001... Prelude: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), the son of a clergyman schoolteacher, was raised in a large family of modest income. Through talent, ambition, and agreeableness, Reynolds became a grandly successful portrait painter, knighted by...

Corregidora: retelling (her)story.
June 22, 2001... Although writing by women, particularly Afro-American women, has flourished in recent decades, it certainly has not flourished without a great struggle. Regarding this struggle, "the anxiety of influence" of which Bloom and then Gilbert and...

Ex-centricities: perspectives on gender and multi-cultural self-representation in contemporary American women's autobiographies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... I In Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation, Leigh Gilmore argues that there is a "crisis in critical approaches to the discourses of women's self-representation," and suggests that such a crisis "can be...

Depathologizing anorexia: the risks of life narratives. (1).(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Extreme thinness, cessation of the menses, growth of facial and body hair, sexual indifference, strenuous regimens of exercise, repetitious behavior patterns, lack of speech, insomnia, cognitive, temporal and visual distortions, disturbed...

Visible storytellers: women narrators on 1950s daytime television.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... During the 1950s, television's daytime airwaves were filled with women's stories. Well before soap opera's plotlines pervaded daytime schedules, a variant of the popular "audience participation" genre offered viewers a steady stream of women's...

What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Judith Butler, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas, eds. What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory. Essays from the English Institute. New York: Routledge, 2000. xii + 292 pp. $85.00 cloth; $21.00 paper. The latest...

Books received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... Bohn, Willard. Modern Visual Poetry. Cranbury, NJ: U of Delaware P, 2001. $47.50 cloth. Boldrini, Lucia. Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. $54.95 cloth. Brinzeu, Paul. Corridors of...