Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2000

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2000

Human mouseness: Burns and compassion for animals.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... 1 Middle-class intellectuals in Robert Burns's time waged a campaign for kindness to animals. The cruelties to be denounced were omnipresent in everyday life: dismaying practices in working, farming, and slaughtering animals; vivisection;...

"All flesh doth frailtie breed": mothers and children in 'The Faerie Queene'.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... "The poem," C.S. Lewis writes of Spenser's Faerie Queene, "is full of marriages.... it is difficult not to fancy that our bodily, no less than our mental, health is refreshed by reading him" (316). In fact, The Faerie Queene is full of...

'The Spanish Tragedy' and the politico-religious unconscious.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... In spite of the enormous variety, not to mention radical disagreement and contradiction, that characterizes criticism of The Spanish Tragedy over the last few decades, one claim remains indisputable: rather than simply a seminal (and crude)...

"We are undone already": disarming the multitude in 'Julius Caesar' and 'Coriolanus'.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... For several recent critics, Shakespeare's shift from portraying the crowd as mob in early plays, like 2 Henry VI and Julius Caesar, to portraying the crowd as "political entity" in Coriolanus marks his "most radical position." (1) Shakespeare's...

The uses of parody in William Boyd's 'The New Confessions'.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Boyd's novel came out too late (in 1987) to figure significantly in the recent and still more or less current debate about postmodernism. Another cogent reason for this omission is that it does not patently, except at the very end, deviate from...