Criticism articles from June 2006

Criticism archives from June 2006

Scripting wholeness in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... I. Prologue In Autobiography of a Face (1994), Lucy Grealy (1963-2002) relates her efforts to come to terms with the physical and emotional ramifications of the removal of a cancerous portion of her jaw at the age of nine. Covering...

"Keep your measures": Herrick, Herbert, and the resistance to music.(Robert Herrick, George Herbert)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETS REPRESENT music as active, powerful, and variable; it can sicken and cure; it can represent decadence and worldliness as well as redemption and grace. That variability of the figuration of music makes poetic...

Anti-egoism and collective life: allegories of agency in Wyndham Lewis's Enemy of the Stars.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... WE HAVE COME TO KNOW Wyndham Lewis as one of modernism's most vocal advocates of the static, self-contained ego. In Time and Western Man, Lewis insists that "our only terra firma in a boiling and shifting world is... our 'self.'" (l) He then...

Performing remediation: the minstrel, the camera, and The Octoroon.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... ON THE EVE OF THE first conflict America would wage in part with photographic images, the first actor to play a photographer debuted on the American stage. He took his place alongside the antebellum era's minstrels, Shakespearian actors, and...

Closing time: Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... See One restless in the exotic time! and ever, Till the air is cured of its fever. Gwendolyn Brooks, "Langston Hughes" RUMOR HAS IT LANGSTON HUGHES was gay. Such speculation began early in his career--when less ambiguous homosexuals...