Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 1996

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 1996

The editors are grateful for the assistance of Philip Barrish, Evan Carton, Don Graham, and Richard Hocks.
March 22, 1996... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Philip Barrish, Evan Carton, Don Graham, and Richard Hocks, whose expert advice shaped this issue. TSLL sometimes publishes special issues, the result of inviting essays on a given topic as in...

De-composing Poe's "Philosophy".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1996... "The Philosophy" as Narrative Given the way Poe's fictional works have so persistently attracted the serious attention of language-related theorists--from Charles Baudelaire in the nineteenth-century to Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida in...

Howells's "wretched fetishes": character, realism, and other Modern Instances.(William Dean Howells)('A Modern Instance')(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1996... [C]haracter is a superstition, a wretched fetish. William Dean Howells, A Modern Instance Realism as a Precipitate of Error "Ah, I don't know. I don't know!" With this final sentence, uttered by Eustace Atherton, Howells closes A...

Revising vulnerability: Henry James's confrontation with photography.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1996... I. Brady's Vise and a Feeling of Helplessness It had been revealed to me thus in a flash that we were somehow queer, and though never exactly crushed by it I became aware that I at least felt so as I stood with my head in Mr. Brady's vise....

How do I get to Broadway? Reading Dos Passos's 'Manhattan Transfer' sign.(John Dos Passos)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1996... How do I get to Broadway?... I want to get to the center of things. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" [I]n the absence of a center or...