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Singular text, multiple implied readers.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... In narrative theory and literary analysis, it is regularly assumed that a text has a single implied author and a single implied reader. This is no doubt usually the case, but there are a number of interesting examples that cannot fit within...
Why Jane Austen was different, and why we may need cognitive science to see it.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Something happened to the novel "around the time of Jane Austen" (vii) argues George Butte in his compelling reintroduction of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's discourse on phenomenology into contemporary literary and film studies, I Know That You Know...
Chaucer's anxiety of poetic craft: the Squire's Tale.(Geoffrey Chaucer)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... The Squire's Tale is not a tale intended to tell a story; it is instead a narrative poem designed to examine the craft of poetic composition. As such, it functions as a pseudo-tale crafted by Chaucer to approximate the characteristics of a...
Who controls the narrative?: a stylistic comparison of different versions of Raymond Carver's "So Much Water So Close to Home".(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... 1. Introduction
Raymond Carver is one of the prominent writers in post-war American literature, especially with his "resuscitating the short story as an artistically and commercially legitimate form" (Campbell ix). In studying Carver, the...
On the narrative function of metonymy in Chapter XIV of Heine's Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand.(Heinrich Heine)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Introduction
Chapter XIV of Heine's travelogue Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand (1826) features a striking scene which is most often read as the author's highly subjectivist 'settling of accounts' with Hamburg, the city in which the author...
Norman N. Holland. Meeting Movies.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Norman N. Holland. Meeting Movies. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2006. 201 pp. $41.50 hardcover.
From the escapism of Casablanca to the leaps of faith in The Seventh Seal to the potency and postmodern penetrations of Shakespeare in...
Jean-Louis Hippolyte. Fuzzy Fiction.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Jean-Louis Hippolyte. Fuzzy Fiction. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2006. 319 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Jean-Louis Hippolyte's Fuzzy Fiction borrows its title from Claude Ollier's Fuzzy Sets (1975), retrieved its theory from Bertrand Russell. The...
Kenneth Womack. Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Kenneth Womack. Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. New York: Continuum, 2007. HB $75.00 PB $21.95.
Kenneth Womack's Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles is the latest entry in the growing...
James M. Mellard. Beyond Lacan.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... James M. Mellard. Beyond Lacan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006. 288 pp. $ 75.00 cloth; $ 24.95 paper.
In Beyond Lacan, James M. Mellard continues the literary, critical trajectory of work that he had started in previous publications, notably in...
Books received.
September 22, 2007... Abbott, Craig. Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris. Northern Illinois UP. 2007. xii+192.
Durant, Alain-Philippe and Naomi Mandel. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Continuum. 2006. xi+178.
Thomas, Joseph T., Jr....