Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 1998

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 1998

The typological design of Melville's "The Apple-Tree Table".(Herman Melville)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1998... As Melville's last published work of magazine fiction, "The Apple-Tree Table; Or, Original Spiritual Manifestations" (Putnam's Monthly Magazine, May 1856) is an inadvertently valedictory, deceptively light-toned dramatization of a central tenet...

Whitman as furtive mother: the supplementary jouissance of the "ambushed womb" in "Song of Myself".(poet Walt Whitman)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1998... Whitman's friend, the early environmentalist John Burroughs, named Whitman a "mother man." With this term he called attention to Whitman's nurturing impulses, and, of course, Whitman possessed many, particularly the nursing abilities he brought...

"Murder, what a lovely voice!": sex, speech, and the public/private problem in The Bostonians.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1998... When Henry James returned to America in 1881 and 1882, he had been living abroad for six years and had already decided that the move would be permanent. Nevertheless, these visits, marked by the unexpected, sequential loss of both parents, seem...

Colonial desires, silence, and metonymy: "all things considered" in Wide Sargasso Sea.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1998... "I am not in a position to make conditions, as you know very well. She is damn lucky to get him, all things considered." (Rhys, 114) "His stay in the West Indies has changed him out of all knowledge." (Rhys, 178) Jean Rhys objected...

The value of utilitarian ethics at the present time.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1998... To the great majority of contemporary readers for whom the word "utilitarianism" has any meaning, it almost certainly conjures up images of that dry philosopher-pedant Thomas Gradgrind, of the direful result of Gradgrind's system on both his...