Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2004

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2004

Machiavelli's The Prince as Memoir.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... My postulate is that all literature, in the end, is autobiographical. Everything is poetic that confesses, that gives us a glimpse of a destiny. --Borges (1) I A major tendency among recent interpretations of The Prince has been...

Miltonic marriage and the challenge to history in Paradise Lost.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In book 5 of Paradise Lost, Milton's Eve is visited in sleep by "one shaped and winged like one of those from heaven" (5.55): Satan. She is brought before the forbidden tree, its fruit waved in her face. Reporting her dream to Adam after she...

John Dryden and John Denham.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In 1692, more than two decades after the death of John Denham, John Dryden paid homage to the poet as he recalled a conversation he had had "about Twenty Years ago" with Sir George Mackenzie: He asked me why I did not imitate in my...

Female romanticism at the end of history.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... With the slogan "now and again anachronize," Jerome Christensen has suggested that future readings of romantic literature produce interpretive moments designed to threaten the idea of a hermetically sealed telos of ideological evolution that...

Randall Jarrell's answerable style: revision of elegy in "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner".
March 22, 2004... This paper is concerned with the position of Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" in the elegiac tradition, but to define that position I must begin with another genre and another poet: the heroic epic and John Milton. In the...

Against the vernacular: Ciceronian formalism and the problem of the individual.
March 22, 2004... My goal is to show the significance of a family quarrel within Renaissance humanism for the humanism, much more broadly conceived, of current debate. Renaissance humanism, at its narrowest and most orthodox, required the imitation of approved...