Style articles from March 1996

Style archives from March 1996

Negotiating community in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes.
March 22, 1996... Commonly considered to be the first work of Southwestern humor, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes (1835) has long been exiled to the margins of antebellum Southern literature, which, in turn, occupies a marginal position of its own. In...

History with style: the impassible writing of Flaubert. (Gustave Flaubert)
March 22, 1996... I. FLAUBERT'S EXCESSIVE HISTORIOGRAPHY Despite the massive outpouring of historical and historiographical writings during the nineteenth century, few writers question the possibilities for writing history more than Flaubert. The paradoxical...

Melville's chaotic style and the use of generative models: an essay in method. (Herman Melville)
March 22, 1996... "Ourselves are Fate." So ends chapter 75, "'Sink, Burn, and Destroy' - Printed Admiralty orders in time of war," of Melville's White-Jacket (321). This strangely constructed sentence does not seem to have troubled any of the editors, typesetters,...

Reading Forster's style: face actions and social scripts in Maurice. (E.M. Forster)
March 22, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION In his recent article in Style on Gricean perspectives in Finnegans Wake, David Herman demonstrates how current pragmatic theories, notably those of Paul Grice, John Searle, and such conversational analysts as Harvey Sacks,...

Linguistic incantation and parody in Women in Love. (novel by D.H. Lawrence)
March 22, 1996... She knew, as well as he knew, that words themselves do not convey meaning, that they are but a gesture we make, a dumb show like any other. Lawrence, Women in Love Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they...

Metaphor and mental disturbance: the case of Lady Chatterley's Lover. (novel by D.H. Lawrence)
March 22, 1996... Peter Brooks has remarked that psychoanalytical criticism got a bad name because it mistook the object of analysis, applying Freudian concepts either to the author (and his intentions), or to the characters (and their neuroses), or to the reader...

Stop the world, I want to get off! Identity and circularity in Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round.
March 22, 1996... In his biography of Margaret Wise Brown, Awakened by the Moon, Leonard Marcus explains that Gertrude Stein wrote her first children's book, The World is Round, at Brown's suggestion (2).(1) Having found immense personal satisfaction with her own...

Metaphor and mind style in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
March 22, 1996... 1. INTRODUCTION Roger Fowler coined the term "mind style" in 1977 to describe the phenomenon in which the language of a text projects a characteristic world view, a particular way of perceiving and making sense of the world. In William...

The New Historicism Reader.
March 22, 1996... In the collection The New Historicism Reader, H. Aram Veeser offers a sequel to his The New Historicism (1989). Different from the previous, theoretically oriented volume on the subject, The New Historicism Reader presents a selection of New...

Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence.
March 22, 1996... This book takes a broadly sociolinguistic approach to the life story, which the author characterizes as a discourse unit crucial for the presentation of self in everyday life. Life Stories is a richly innovative study, packed with insights into...

Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege and the Politics of Subjectivity.
March 22, 1996... Cynthia Hogue's new book Scheming Women constitutes (in Thomas Kuhn's terms) "normal" feminist literary criticism. It works in the established paradigms of poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and recent feminist theory; its references are...