Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 2004

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 2004

Only remember.(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... This issue is on remembrance of things (sometimes deliberately) forgotten. It starts with two essays of remembrance of forgotten works and concludes with two essays about poems and novels that thematize remembrance and forgetting. Stephanie L....

Building the "blue" race: miscegenation, mysticism, and the language of cognitive evolution in Jean Toomer's "The Blue Meridian".(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Toomer's vision of psychological evolution later realized and racialized in "The Blue Meridian" (1936) has its precursor in Cane's closing chapter, the short drama "Kabnis," and in the figure of Kabnis as a biracial subject struggling to find...

Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes, Thirties modernism, and the problem of bad political poetry.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... After allowing for items to protect future operation every cut in production cost should be shared with the consumers in lower prices with the workers in higher wages thus stabilizing buying power and guarding...

National forgetting and remembering in the Poetry of Robert Frost.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... "Forgetting," wrote the French historian Ernest Renan, "is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation." "Indeed," he continues, "historical enquiry brings to light deeds of violence which took place at the origin of all political formations,...

Man writing: the Watson Trilogy: Peter Matthiessen in archive.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Peter Matthiessen is a naturalist, political activist, travel writer and novelist whose thirty-plus books and broadsides range from Shore Birds of North America (1967) to his defense of Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement, In the...