Style articles from March 1999

Style archives from March 1999

The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia: A Crossdisciplinary Travelogue.
March 22, 1999... 1. What are proverbs? "Where there's a will, there's a way." When you hear or read the words just cited, you will readily recognize that you have encountered a proverb. You should also find it quite easy to recall additional instances of...

Coleridge's Swinging Moods and the Revision of "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison".
March 22, 1999... Michael Simpson Goldsmiths' College, University of London But, if hereafter thou shalt write, not feare To send it to be judg'd by Metius care, And to your fathers, and to mine; though't be Nine yeares kept by: your papers...

The Spirit of Classical Hymn in Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty".
March 22, 1999... Richard Cronin has observed that in Shelley's poetry, as in his life and thought, "there is an ever-present drive towards a rejection of conventional controls" countered by the recognition that "controls, systems, conventions, are humanly...

William James's Narrative of Habit.
March 22, 1999... Amidst a wracking melancholia that revealed to him "that pit of insecurity beneath the surface of life," a young William James found rescue from his own "ontological wonder-sickness" in a definition of free will posited by the French...

The Talking Being Listening: Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry" and the Sound of Reading.
March 22, 1999... No matter how complicated anything is, if it is not mixed up with remembering there is no confusion, but and that is the trouble with a great many so called intelligent people they mix up remembering with talking and listening, and as a result...

The Caliban Beneath the Skin: Abstract Drama in Auden's Favorite Poem.
March 22, 1999... Too many ideas in their heads! To them I'm an idea, you're an idea, everything's an idea. That's why we're here. Funny thing, Ticker, that we should both be in the same play. They can't do without us. W. H. Auden, The Dog Beneath the Skin,...

Literary Allusion and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
March 22, 1999... 1 Over the past two decades, theoretical interest in intertextuality, presupposition, and influence has generated a good deal of interesting discussion of the device of literary allusion. This has led to a better understanding of what the...

"Where the Maps Stopped": The Aesthetics of Borders in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks.
March 22, 1999... The language of margins and borders marks a position of paradox: both inside and outside. - Linda Hutcheon (Poetics 66) In her novels Love Medicine and Tracks, Louise Erdrich engages the paradox of employing and glorifying the oral...

American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Jonathan Veitch. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xx + 182 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. As the opening pages of Jonathan Veitch's book American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s...

The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Barbara Johnson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii + 215 pp. $22.00 cloth. Barbara Johnson's The Feminist Difference is heralded by a striking cover: a glossy reproduction of an androgynous-looking creature wearing a...