Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2007

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2007

Genetic criticism.
March 22, 2007... The editors thank Catherine Rainwater, Thomas Whitbread, and Michael Winship for their indispensable help in selecting the essays for this issue. The term I use for this issue of TSLL comes from Herman and Krafft's study of the manuscripts...

Fast Learner: the typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin.
March 22, 2007... "Scripts're in the top drawer." But they were all purple, Dittoed--worn, torn, stained with coffee. Nothing else in the drawer. "Hey.... Where's the original? What did you make these copies from?" (Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49,...

"Full Fathom Five": the dead father in Sylvia Plath's seascapes.
March 22, 2007... Well, I tried drowning, but that didn't work; somehow the urge to life, mere physical life, is damn strong, and I felt that I could swim forever straight out into the sea and sun and never be able to swallow more than a gulp or two...

Susan Sontag's "archaeology of longings".
March 22, 2007... I am part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson ("Ulysses") Susan Sontag has...

The Navajo, psychosis, Lacan, and Derrida.(Jacques Lacan)
March 22, 2007... The effective violence of disseminating writing. An infraction marking the "symbolic." Would every possibility of disorder and disorganization in the symbolic, from the vantage of a certain outside force, would everything that...