Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 2000

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 2000

The rhetoric of development in Joseph Conrad's 'Nostromo'.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Edward Said writes of Nostromo (1904) that "All Conrad can see is a world dominated by the West, and--of equal importance--a world in which every opposition to the West only confirms its wicked power" (Harpers, 70). But in Nostromo, Costaguana...

Incomplete histories and Helene Cixous' 'L'histoire terrible mais inachevee de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge'.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Il ne sait plus ou il se trouve, Ou a Pekin ou a Phnom Penh, A l'interieur ou en dehors de lui-meme, Ni qui il est, ni de quel bord, Ni de quel genre, ni comment il s'appelle, Si c'est royaliste ou bien republicain,...

The life and times of 'Death and the Maiden'.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... The rise and fall of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a subject worthy of close scrutiny, particularly now, following the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in Britain on 16 October 1998 at the request of the Spanish judiciary. How did a play that...

Inscribing Mexican-American modernism in Americo Paredes' 'George Washington Gomez'.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In Mexican-American literary history (1) the period from 1836 to the late 1930s has been characterized as the century of the epic or heroic corrido (ballad), (2) the paradigmatic form of Mexican-American, socio-symbolic expression during a period...

JE est une phrase: the subversion of Rimbaud's 'Being Beauteous'.(poem by 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... --j'ai vu l'enfer des femmes la-bas;-- et il me sera loisible de posseder la verite dans une ame et un corps. (1) Rimbaud's famous "lettre du voyant" to Paul Demeny (1871) alludes to a future time when woman will find the...