Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 1997

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 1997

The editors are grateful for the assistance of Andrew Cooper, John Farrell, Betty Sue Flowers, Geraldine Heng, Ernest Kaulbach, Leah Marcus, Wayne Rebhorn, and Robert Twombly on this issue.
September 22, 1997... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Andrew Cooper, John Farrell, Betty Sue Flowers, Geraldine Heng, Ernest Kaulbach, Leah Marcus, Wayne Rebhorn, and Robert Twombly on this issue. The essays in this issue are persistently...

The Elaine of Astolat and Lancelot dialogues: a confusion of intent.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1997... It may seem strange to approach the tale of Elaine of Astolat from the perspective of a common medieval motif, a woman set adrift, a motif that most readers are familiar with through Chaucer's enduring Constance in "The Man of Law's Tale." Yet...

Country mouse and towny mouse: truth in Wyatt.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1997... Truth is a crucial term in the poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt. The word and its derivatives, with closely related terms like "trust" and "faith," and their derivatives and opposites, appear in nearly 50 percent of his poems. These terms frequently...

Henrician historiography and the voice of the people: the cases of More and Hall.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1997... Any one man who has command of many men owes his authority to those whom he commands; he ought to have command not one instant longer than his subjects wish. Since kings, not their own masters, rule on sufferance, why are they proud? ...

"Man to man": self-fashioning in Jonson's "To William Pembroke".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1997... Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, with its claims that there may have been "less autonomy" in the self-fashioning of the Renaissance than had once been perceived, initiated the movement of English Renaissance studies away from...

Dying into the type: Tennyson's surrender to public language in "The Lover's Tale".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1997... 1 There are, says Harold Nicolson, two Tennysons. The "primary force" of one Tennyson is a "central lyrical energy." This is the romantic Tennyson, follower of Byron and Shelley; Tennyson the black, unhappy mystic of the Lincolnshire...