Style articles from March 1994

Style archives from March 1994

Since first your eye I eyed: Shakespeare's 'Sonnets' and the poetics of narcissism. (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... 22 have made "Sonnet 33" the subject of this sentence in order to remain agnostic about what might have "really happened" to occasion suspicions of this kind. My larger argument is that pretexts for estrangement are necessary to the survival of...

Shakespeare's projected persons. (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... What skills did Shakespeare need to acquire in order to create the illusion of inwardness, the sense that his characters are "round" or multidimensional or that they reveal self-consciousness or "interiority" or "subjectivity" or that emotion...

Quantitative aspects of genre in the century of prose corpus. (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... PRELIMINARY The Century of Prose Corpus is a machine-readable, half-million-word compilatio of British prose composed or published during the period 1680-1780. One of its two parts (B: 200,000 words) was created on the supposition that certain...

The aesthetics of separation: Collins's "Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson." (William Collins) (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... The personified abstraction--especially the eighteenth-century variety--has endured over the years a critical fate that can only be characterized as eccentric. Reacting against a perceived Romantic legacy of prosopopeia bashing, Bertrand Bronson,...

Formal subversion in Wilfred Owen's "Hospital Barge." (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... Wilfred Owen is best known for depicting war's carnage, and this reputation is largely based on the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est." Certainly, this is a memorabl poem, remarkable for its graphic description of the agonies of a first World Wa gas...

Narrating the unnarratable: gender and metonymy in the Victorian novel. (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... I. FEMINIST NARRATOLOGY: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? Do male and female novelists write differently? The feminist narratologist woul (cautiously) answer "yes, if the novelists in question are Victorian." In a tim and place where the specificity of...

Disembodied voices and narrating bodies in 'The Great Gatsby.' (Issues in English and American Literatures)
March 22, 1994... Seltzer, Mark. Bodies and Machines. New York: Routledge, 1992. Steig, Michael. Stories of Reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. Trilling, Lionel. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." The Liberal Imagination. New York: Doubleday, 1953. Turnbull,...

Using Lacan, Reading Fiction.
March 22, 1994... Despite the lead given by Shoshana Felman's ground-breaking psychoanalytic-Lacanian analysis of Henry James's novella, The Turn of the Screw, the practical application on a large scale of the theories of Jacques Lacan to literary texts has not...

The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion.
March 22, 1994... Gerald Peters applies Giambattista Vico's theory of the history of writing to conversion narratives in The Mutilating God, in an attempt not merely to classify Paul, Augustine, Rilke, Joyce, and Orwell, but also to answer the question, "Why do...

The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse.
March 22, 1994... Is meter meaningful in itself, or is it just a package for poetic meaning? Many of the traditional moves to connect meter and meaning now ring pretty hollow. Neoclassical theories of decorum seem arbitrary to modern readers, and New Critical...

Herbarium Verbarium: The Discourse of Flowers.
March 22, 1994... Cary Wolfe has argued, in a recent Cultural Critique article, that recent thinking has reflected "a renewed interest in the concept of nature as a critical category in the face of impending ecological decimation" (65). Claudette Sartiliot's...