Style articles from September 2000

Style archives from September 2000

Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature.(Review)
September 22, 2000... David H. Richter, ed. Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. xviii + 414 pp. $16.50 paper. The second edition of David Richter's Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views of...

Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Doreen Fowler. Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xxi + 215 pp. $36.00 cloth; $14.50 paper. Doreen Fowler's Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed belongs to a tradition of Faulkner...

Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative, and Postcolonialism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Christine van Boheemen-Saaf. Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative, and Postcolonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 227 pp. $59.95 cloth. As Joyce's intention to keep scholars baffled for...

Homoerotic Bonding as Escape from Heterosexual Responsibility in Pynchon's Slow Learner.(Thomas Pynchon)
September 22, 2000... In the stories collected in Slow Learner (1984) and in the uncollected "Morality and Mercy in Vienna" (1958), Thomas Pynchon deconstructs expectations of dominant male sex roles. He contrasts these expectations to fictional worlds where male...

Synecdoche, Tropic Violence, and Shakespeare's Imitatio in Titus Andronicus.
September 22, 2000... In 1678, Samuel Shaw, a late Renaissance schoolmaster, published a play called Words Made Visible: or Rhetorick Accommodated to the Lives and Manners of Men. Written earlier for performance by his scholars at Ashby-de-la-Zouch grammar school,...

Antimetabolic King John.
September 22, 2000... Lawrence Danson, among others, has demonstrated that certain rhetorical tropes as Elizabethans understood them characterize and order some Shakespeare plays. The action of Coriolanus, for example, amounts to a kinetic combination of two...

Darkness Audible: The Poem of Poetic Failure.
September 22, 2000... AS if nothingness contained a metier. -- Wallace Stevens, "The Rock" From time to time, poets produce "poems" about being unable to write poetry. Among those who have contributed to this curious genre are Coleridge ("Dejection: an...

"In the Mystic Circle": The Space of the Unspeakable in Henry James's The Sacred Fount.
September 22, 2000... The Sacred Fount, in trying to hold open a space for the unspeakable, uses textual strategies similar to those developed by apophatic mystics to speak about God. In his study of apophatic languages, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael Sells...

An Ethical Model in a Postmodem Faust: The Daemonic Parody of the Politics of Friendship in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.
September 22, 2000... Dysfunctional friendship has become an ethical and political dilemma in postmodernity. In the dysfunctional nature of friendship, strangeness is a crucial factor. This strangeness is the recognition of alterity and the lack of relationship of...

Waugh's War and the Loop of History: From Put Out More Flags to Brideshead Revisited and Back Again.(Evelyn Waugh )
September 22, 2000... Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte....

"Controlled Panic": Mastering the Terrors of Dissolution and Isolation in Elizabeth Bishop's Epiphanies.
September 22, 2000... "The concept of literary epiphany has received surprisingly little theoretical attention in recent years," writes Ashton Nichols. "Privileged moments of secular revelation have become a literary commonplace in poems and prose narratives, but...