Style articles from March 2008

Style archives from March 2008

Teaching literature and writing: an interview with Professor Gerald Graff University of Illinois--Chicago.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... Professor Gerald Graft has published several landmark books on the study of literature, composition, and teaching. A couple of those highlights are the well-received Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society (1979), and his...

Point of view: in teaching composition, 'formulaic' is not a four-letter word *.
March 22, 2008... One of the least-examined assumptions among academics today is that being "formulaic"--using established formulas to structure thought--is always a bad thing. In the field of rhetoric and composition, to say that a mode of writing instruction...

Dirimens copulatio and metalinguistic negation in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!(William Faulkner )
March 22, 2008... In response to a question about Sherwood Anderson's style, William Faulkner described writing as "a matter of imagining any number of things. The writer at the moment of putting it down has got to be a censor, to say Now, this is right, this is...

Focalization as education: the race relation optimism of the narrator of Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition (1901).
March 22, 2008... How Ideas from Narrative Theory Can Inform Debates about Chesnutt's Novel Charles Chesnutt's 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition is nominally set in the fictional town of Wellington, but actually relates to events of the 1898 white...

The role of dialect representation in speaking from the margins: "The Lesson" of Toni Cade Bambara.
March 22, 2008... "What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it? Where we are is who we are, Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don't necessarily have to be that way, she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people...

Kevin Mills. Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Kevin Mills. Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2007. 228pp. Contrary to popular belief, history is usually not written by the victors, but, by the losers--from the Old Testament to...

Jocelyn Harris. A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jocelyn Harris. A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion. Neward: U of Delaware P, 2007. $54.50 280 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-87413-966-2. Similar to an attorney articulating evidence for a case, Jocelyn Harris' style in...

Bohuslava Bradbrook. A Handbook of Czech Prose Writing: 1940-2005.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Bohuslava Bradbrook. A Handbook of Czech Prose Writing: 1940-2005. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. ISBN 1-84519-173-0 Bohuslava Bradbrook was educated first at Charles University in Prague and later after her escape from...

Ann Jefferson. Biography and the Question of Literature in France.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Ann Jefferson. Biography and the Question of Literature in France (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007). XII, 425 p. Ann Jefferson's aim is to bring out the link between biography and literature in France, which is explained in a fairly long and dense...

Patricia Haberstroh and Christine St. Peter, editors. Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Patricia Haberstroh and Christine St. Peter, editors. Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts. Cork: Cork UP, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85918-410-3. $40.52 (hardcover). This collection of ten essays by female critics from several nations...

Books received.
March 22, 2008... Berry, R.M. and Jeffrey R. Di Leo, eds. Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2008. xiii+295pp. ISBN 9780791472644. Cianci, Giovanni and Jason Harding, ed. T.S. Eliot and the Concept of...