Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 1999

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 1999

Sentimental discourse and the bisexual erotics of 'Work'.(Remembrance and Revitalization of Works Past)
September 22, 1999... The Erotics of Sentimental Forms A feminist re-evaluation of sentimentalism began two decades ago with some now-famous polemics about the politics of sentimental forms. Ann Douglas's The Feminization of American Culture saw the "triumph...

Willa Cather's 'The Professor's House': sleeping with the dead.(Remembrance and Revitalization of Works Past)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... Willa Cather's The Professor's House is perhaps her most mournful and elegiac novel--in a body of work where the mournful and elegiac are inextricable from the everyday. Its protagonist, the Professor St. Peter, is, as well, one of the most...

The legend of Jane Bowles: stories of the female avant-garde.(Remembrance and Revitalization of Works Past)
September 22, 1999... Jane Bowles is a writer whose career follows a familiar trajectory for women experimentalists: a brilliant debut with a seminal work that garners the praise of other writers (her novel, Two Serious Ladies), a lack of continuing critical attention...

'Death of a Salesman' at fifty - still "coming home to roost".(Remembrance and Revitalization of Works Past)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... "Tragedy," Eric Bentley has warned, can "easily lure us into talking nonsense" (Playwright, 128). If so, Death of a Salesman surely doubles the risk. For likely no modern drama has generated more such talk than Miller's classic American play....