Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 2001

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 2001

Chichikov's chest: reality, representation, and infectious storytelling in 'Dead Souls'.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... But not such is the lot and different is the fate of the writer who has dared to bring out all the things that are before man's eyes at every minute, yet which his unheeding eyes see not--all that fearsome, overwhelming, slimy...

Disinterring Edward Dahlberg.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... I pose you your question: shall you uncover honey / where maggots are? I hunt among stones --Charles Olson, "The Kingfishers" In Do These Bones Live (1941), his eccentric critical history of American and European literature,...

Views from the Rosebrick Manor: poetic authority in James Merrill's 'The Changing Light at Sandover'.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... I must warn the reader to beware of applying to persons what is here meant only of books in the most literal sense. So, when Virgil is mentioned, we are not to understand the person of a famous poet called by that name, but...

Creation's covenant: the art of Cynthia Ozick.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Cynthia Ozick established the prevailing critical context for interpreting her fiction when she rather controversially claimed that no fiction produced by Jews in the Diaspora has had lasting value except that which is "centrally Jewish" (Art,...

Liberalism and the articulation of cruelty: an essay on Judith Shklar and D.M. Thomas.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... I The writings of the late Judith Shklar (1929-92) are at the center of a "considerable reinvigoration of the liberal political imagination" in the last twenty years. So writes the distinguished political theorist Bernard Yack in his...