Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 2002

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 2002

The lost and the longed for.
December 22, 2002... The five essays in this issue have, on the face of it, little in common, the subjects being Raymond Chandler's tough-guy detective stories, Nelson Algren's naturalistic portrayals of the most down and the most out, one of Mark Twain's most...

Putting "his story next to hers": choice, agency, and the structure of beloved.
December 22, 2002... When, near the end of Beloved, Paul D "wants to put his story next to" Sethe's (273), his desire points the reader toward the structural and, perhaps, thematic core of Toni Morrison's intense and challenging narrative of slavery's effects and...

Philip Marlowe's labor of words.
December 22, 2002... In a short comparison of Raymond Chandler's detective novels to T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Scott Christianson notes that both feature the "isolated modern hero sitting before a spectacle of modern chaos and trying to make sense of it all"...

The rainbow sign of Nelson Algren.
December 22, 2002... God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, the fire next time Hymn The Tug & Maul, this winter noon, looked much as it had that Easter Dawn. Frost had gathered on the windows and by night there would be neon rainbows in the...

The clinician as enslaver: Pudd'nhead Wilson and the rationalization of identity.
December 22, 2002... Perhaps no other work better reveals the double-minded impulse in Mark Twain than does Pudd'nhead Wilson. Not only do twins make up the structural core of the tale, but the composition history of the novel is a case study in Twain's narrative...

The Kahan Commission Report and a balcony over the Fakihani: a tale of two fictions.
December 22, 2002... Deportation Before they came for me I took my voice and hid it under the dawn so they found only my bleeding mouth, my broken hands, my eyes empty of vision They traveled to every corner of my country, frustration building...