Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 2006

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 2006

The ends of enchantment: colonialism and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
June 22, 2006... By the thirteenth century, the English had learned that the Welsh were treacherous and fickle. (1) In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the English trembled when the Welsh both raided English territory and produced an alarming...

Diogenes the Cynic in the Dialogues of the Dead of Thomas Brown, Lord Lyttelton, and William Blake.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Diogenes once passing neare to Hell Beheld Mydas, that sometime liv'd a King, Now in Infernall Beggery to dwell, Base, ragged, dispossesst of ev'ry thing; And laughing said, ah ah my golden Asse, Ist possible the world comes...

Equiano's "loud voice": witnessing the performance of The Interesting Narrative.(Olaudah Equiano)
June 22, 2006... Speech acts of all forms--praying, swearing, cursing, and so forth--burst unremitting from the page in black Atlantic writing of the eighteenth century. (1) For evidence of this claim, one may turn to virtually any page in the autobiographical...

Productive fear: labor, sexuality, and mimicry in Bram Stoker's Dracula.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... The "anxieties of empire" expressed in Dracula, Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel, have attracted a great deal of critical attention lately. Although the rise of vampirism can be traced back to medieval folklore, Dracula is decidedly modern,...

"English sheiks" and Arab stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the imperial masquerade.
June 22, 2006... In Women in the Popular Imagination in the Twenties, Billie Melman explores the appeal of the "desert romance," the stereotypically described erotic encounter between a European woman and an Arab or supposedly Arab lover--a formula that...