Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2002

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2002

God's backside.
September 22, 2002... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Sabrina Barton, Michael Bauman, Greg Chaplin, Rebecca Dyer, Beth Hedrick, Sue Heinzelman, Liz Scala, and Michael Stapleton. We take this issue's rubric from Louise M. Bishop's deft reading of...

"Of Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf": confusion of orifices in Chaucer's Miller's Tale.
September 22, 2002... Other critics have connected the word "pryvetee" in the Miller's Tale, referring to both human genitalia and secrets, to the Biblical story of Moses seeing God's "back parts" (posteriora). (1) There appears to be general agreement that the...

Oral devotion: eucharistic theology and Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics.
September 22, 2002... Although the prevailing critical winds in Crashavian criticism seem to have shifted from theological or liturgical explanations of Crashaw's anomalous poetics to a methodology, indebted to Caroline Walker Bynum's work, that finds in these...

Latitudinarianism and the novels of Ann Radcliffe.
September 22, 2002... Introduction Criticism of the novels of Ann Radcliffe has traditionally focused on their relationship with the generic norms of Gothic fiction. This has been the case since the earliest biographical writings, namely Sir Walter Scott's...

Significant form in Jacob's Room: ekphrasis and the elegy.
September 22, 2002... In the first chapter of Jacob's Room, we meet one of the novel's numerous painters, Charles Steele. Faced with the prospect that his subject, Mrs. Flanders, might move, he "struck the canvas a hasty violet-black dab. For the landscape needed...

C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and the Milton Legacy: the Nativity Ode revisited.
September 22, 2002... In the Ballard Matthews Lectures that he delivered at Bangor in 1941, later published as A Preface to "Paradise Lost," (1) C. S. Lewis undertook to refurbish Milton's somewhat tarnished reputation. One of several lines of defense was directed,...