Style articles from March 2004

Style archives from March 2004

"The tension is in the concept": John Ashbery's surrealism.(poet)
March 22, 2004... [A]fter all it all came from Chirico and he was not a surrealist he is very fanciful and his eye is caught by it and he has no distinction between the real and the unreal because everything is alike to him, he says so, but the rest of them...

Expression in a diffuse landscape: contexts for Jeanette Winterson's lyricism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Standards and Style Jeanette Winterson writes against the overused expression, the dull image, the cliche. While something of a postmodernist (continually presenting alternative realities, fragmented or genderless bodies, and textual...

The stylistics of stasis: paradoxical effects in W. G. Sebald.(author)
March 22, 2004... For all the actual, physical journeying that occurs in the works of W. G. Sebald, plot and character development are largely absent (McCrum "Characters" 17). What development does occur happens in the minds of the characters and reaches the...

Current conversations in the teaching of college-level literature.
March 22, 2004... Literary scholars consider themselves to be expert in writing about literature or teaching literature but not necessarily in writing about the teaching of literature. The latter field is likely to be thin, in both senses--less productive of...

Inwit of inwit.(Thinks ... : A Novel)(Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... David Lodge. Thinks... : A Novel. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. 342 pp. $14.00 paper. Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xii + 320 pp.; $16.95 paper. Literary types may recognize in...

Cognitive storyworlds.(Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... David Herman. Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvi + 477. $60.00 cloth. The study of narrative will always depend upon what is being discovered or at least thought about...

MonoConc Pro 2.0 and the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English: resources from Athelstan.(Software Review)(quantitative text analysis software programs)(Athelstan Software)(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 22, 2004... MonoConc Pro Version 2.0, a new addition to the existing quantitative text analysis software programs such as TACT, TEXTANT, and Wordsmith Tools, is a concordance software program for Windows 3.1, 95 or higher, which became available on March...

Edward Schiappa, Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edward Schiappa, Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. xvi + 213 pp. $60.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Every author who writes about definitions faces the temptation to...

Joseph Tabbi. Cognitive Fictions.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Joseph Tabbi. Cognitive Fictions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xvii + 166 pp. $53.95 cloth $17.95 paper. Joseph Tabbi's new book is a very important contribution to the intertwining of literary writing with...

Books received.
March 22, 2004... Altieri, Charles. The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003. $49.95 cloth; $22.50 paper. Ambrosius, Lloyd E., ed. Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004. $45.00...