Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 1999

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 1999

'Walden Two,' postmodern utopia, and the problems of power, choice, and the rule of law.(Nature, Law, and Representation)
March 22, 1999... The progressive community, which has replaced the Western world's cultural tradition with a postmodernist model, holds that (aesthetic) re-education alone will open the dawn of a new golden age. Frederic Jameson is one primary theorist of this...

The path to 'Endless': Gary Snyder in the mid-1990s.(Nature, Law, and Representation)
March 22, 1999... 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 In the mountains it's cold. Always been cold, not just this year. Jagged scarps forever snowed in Woods in the dark ravines...

Lawful entitlements: Chesnutt's fictions of ownership.(Nature, Law, and Representation)(Charles Chesnutt)
March 22, 1999... 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 If he be a white man and assigned to a colored coach, he may have his action for damages against the company for being deprived of his so called property....

The double nihilation of the neon: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.(Nature, Law, and Representation)
March 22, 1999... 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 85-1-1 There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights.... There's a boy who really made something out of...