Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 2007

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 2007

Imagining the "Scottish Natioun": populism and propaganda in Scottish satirical broadsides.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... This essay addresses an intriguing though neglected instance of sixteenth-century political satire. During the late 1560s and early 1570s a series of broadside poems papered the market crosses and kirk doors of Scottish burghs. The broadsides...

"I am made an ass": Falstaff and the scatology of Windsor's polity.(Sir John Falstaff of the The Merry Wives of Windsor)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... This project begins with a familiar linguistic question: did early modern English locution allow for a pun between the words ass and arse? The OED says no; it points to an 1860 text as the first recorded instance of the pun, and it provides no...

The good wound: memory and community in The Unconsoled.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Among the initial reviews of The Unconsoled, many of which struck a note of lukewarm perplexity, few failed to point out the novel's stylistic evocation of Kafka. Ryder, a world-class pianist and self-defined "outsider," has been invited to...

The mode of romance revisited.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... The starting point of this essay (1) is a summary of Northrop Frye's classification of Modes in Anatomy of Criticism, (2) with some incidental remarks later developed into a general Discussion. The revised Chart proposed at the end is tentative...

Apostrophe, or the lyric art of turning away.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Turn away no more: Why wilt thou turn away? (1) I. Introduction Lyric, when it works, works on its audience in a peculiar way. Its effects are not exactly "rhetorical." And so when I claim (as I do in this essay) that where there...