Style articles from September 2005

Style archives from September 2005

Structural secrets: Shakespeare's complex Chiasmus.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... 1. Introduction In 1753, Robert Lowth, D.D., Bishop of London and the former Professor of Poetry at New College, Oxford, published a series of lectures on biblical Hebrew texts that permanently altered the fundamental approach to modern...

When chaos is come again: narrative and narrative analysis in Othello.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... In her introduction to Othello: New Perspectives (1991), Virginia Mason Vaughan indicates that literary criticism of Othello has advanced from older preoccupations with character and psychological analysis of character in the play to embrace...

The trappings of All's Well That Ends Well.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Just before Bertram enters to exult over what he believes to be a liaison with Diana and to witness his comrades' unmasking of his tutor Paroles as a miles gloriosus, both lords Dumaine are considering news of the death of his wife and yet no...

Shakespeare's "still-vexed" Tempest.(William Shakespeare's "The Tempest")(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... In recent decades, commentators on Shakespearean drama have shown how early modern rhetorical figures, as described for example by George Puttenham in The Arte of English Poesie (1589), provide the paradigm for better understanding the essence...

Spenser out of his stanza.(Edmund Spenser)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... How did the poet of The Shepheardes Calender become the poet of The Faerie Queene? The most prominent formal feature of The Faerie Queene is the Spenserian stanza, so one might naturally search the Calender's varied forms for a stanza that...

The poetics of interruption in Mark Twain's Roughing It.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... When read as a book, as an entity that is a sustained, connected, and reasonably consistent unit of prose, Mark Twain's Roughing It presents its narrative--and the author himself identifies the book as "a personal narrative" (527)--in a rather...

Transitivity, indirection, and redemption in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... 1. Introduction In "What Is Stylistics and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?" Stanley Fish makes a most vehement and influential attack on stylistics. (1) A major target of Fish's attack is "circularity," which "makes some...

David Herman, ed. Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... David Herman, ed. Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003. 363 pp. $80.00 cloth; $27.50 paper. The word narrative is rooted in the Latin gnarus, "knowing." Narrating...

Daniel Punday. Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Daniel Punday. Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. x + 234 pp. $65.00 cloth. One cannot read Daniel Punday's Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology without a degree of envy. As the...

Reuven Tsur. On the Shore of Nothingness: A Study in Cognitive Poetics.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Reuven Tsur. On the Shore of Nothingness: A Study in Cognitive Poetics. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003. 380 pp. $49.90 cloth. Cognitive poetics is a diverse and developing field in which Reuven Tsur's work stands as one of the earliest...

Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello. Approaches to Teaching World Literature 88. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. xiii + 244 pp. $37.50 cloth; $19.75 paper. In November 1604,...

Books received.
September 22, 2005... Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa, and Michael Toolan, eds. The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology. PALA 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. xxiv + 261. $71.00. Davis, Todd F. Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade: Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a...