Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 2001

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 2001

The creation of a classical language in the eighteenth century: standardizing English, cultural imperialism, and the future of the literary canon.
June 22, 2001... 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 If any stranger in China, observing smallness of feet in all the women; or, in some savage countries, the uncouth shape of the head...

Movies, marxism and Jim Crow: Richard Wright's cultural criticism.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 No theory of life can take the place of life. After Marxism has laid bare the skeleton of society, there remains the task...

What Bigger killed for: rereading violence against women in 'Native Son.'(novel by Richard Wright)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 Wright's own indignation and the sickness of the age combined to make him dependent on violence and shock, to astonish the reader...

Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples:' abjection and the maternal South.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 In a recent article on contemporary southern writer Berry Morgan, Margaret Jones Bolsteri has written in some detail of the difficulties in...

Peasant dreams: reading 'On the Road.'(Jack Kerouac)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? Ah, dear...