Style articles from March 2000

Style archives from March 2000

What's Eating Ahab? The Logic of Ingestion and the Performance of Meaning in Moby-Dick.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville describes Captain Ahab as "a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and ponderous heart [...,] one in a whole nation's census--a mighty pageant creature" (71). More than a century after the...

Iteration as a Form of Narrative Control in Gertrude Stein's "The Good Anna".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... "You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again?" -T.S. Eliot, "East Coker" In Three Lives Gertrude Stein explores the heterosexual and lesbian relationships of three ordinary...

Rhetoric as Idea: D. H. Lawrence's Genre Theory.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... For an author who makes such creative use of language and its semantic possibilities that he invents his own epistemological vocabulary, D. H. Lawrence has received surprisingly little critical attention for his innovations in the novel at the...

Tuning in to Conversation in the Novel: Gatsby and the Dynamics of Dialogue.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... I decided to play football, to smoke, to go to college, to do all sorts of irrelevant things that had nothing to do with the real business of life, which, of course, was the proper mixture of description and dialogue in the short story. F....

Objects in Space and Time: Metonymy in Durrell's Island Books [*].(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Roman Jakobson links "selection and substitution" with the metaphoric pole of language, "combination and contexture" with the metonymic (90). "In manipulating these two kinds of connection (similarity and contiguity)," he writes, "an...

The Stylistics of Syntactic Complements: Grammar and Seeing in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... David Durian [1] Very slowly, his expression changed a if he [Bevel] were gradually seeing appear what he didn't know he'd been looking for. Flannery O'Connor, "The River" "We are all damned," she [Hulga Hopewell] said, "but some...

The Aestheticist Epiphanies of J. D. Salinger: Bright-Hued Circles, Spheres, and Patches; "Elemental" Joy and Pain.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Strangely, no attempt has yet been made to find a pattern that can unite the epiphanies of characters in the works of J. D. Salinger. The books and articles about him that have appeared in the last thirty-five years include only a single item...

The Hollywood Novel: Gender and Lacanian Tragedy in Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Play It As It Lays remains one of the most astute--and troubling--literary investigations of the causes and consequences of the Hollywood-led culture industry. The novel is unique within the subgenre of the Hollywood novel since it is one of...

Psychoanalysis and Presuppositions.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Slavoj Zizek, ed. Cogito and the Unconscious. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998. 279 pp. $49.95 cloth; $ 18.95 paper. I start from the obviously basic premise that most readers of this review would like to get some information about Cogito and the...

The Mind Has Mountains: a.alvarez@lxx.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Anthony Holden and Frank Kermode, eds. The Mind Has Mountains: a.alvarez@lxx. Cambridge (U.K.): Los Poetry Press, 1999. 139 pp. $23.00 paper. During the 1960s and 70s Alfred Alvarez, known as "Al," was an influential broadcaster and...

Figures IV.(Review)
March 22, 2000... David Gorman [13] Gerard Genette. Figures IV. Paris: Seuil, 1999. 365 pp. Gerard Genette began his career as an essayist. His first three books were collections, published under the general title of Figures (1966, 1969, 1972). In...