Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2005

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2005

Interpersonal relations.
March 22, 2005... Each of the four essays in this issue examines the depiction of interpersonal relations: as possibility, threat, absence, and erasure of boundaries. John Bruns's ethically engaged and engaging essay on James's "The Beast in the Jungle" invokes...

Baffling doom: dialogue, laughter, and comic perception in Henry James.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... For the critic, the comic in Henry James is a specific difficulty. Nearly four decades ago, Richard Poirier lamented the fact that "[t]he extraordinary amount of published criticism on the works of Henry James does not encourage the idea that...

Society in self, self in society: survival in The Wings of the Dove.
March 22, 2005... In the past, criticisms lauding or condemning Milly Theale, Kate Croy, Merton Densher, and Maud Lowder, or any combination of these characters in James's The Wings of the Dove (1902), generally assume that if one or several of these characters...

Canonical relations: Willa Cather, America, and The Professor's House.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... "Willa Cather is a very small critical backwater." "There is no Willa Cather 'industry.' (1) The first of these observations, both made by James Schroeter in his introduction to the "Recent Views" section of Willa Cather and her...

Caught in the wrong story: psychoanalysis and narrative structure in Tender Is the Night.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... "We thought maybe you were in the plot," said Mrs. McKisco... "The plot?" inquired Rosemary, half understanding. "Is there a plot?" "My dear, we don't know," said Mrs. Abrams, with a convulsive stout woman's chuckle....