Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2005

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2005

Grounding postmodernism.(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... The editors wish to thank Wayne Lesser for his indispensable help in selecting the essays in this issue. Our reader for Adam Katz's essay on the late Ronald Sukenick observed "I think the article is hugely valuable for the growing number...

Narrative thinking and experiential knowledge: the example of Ronald Sukenick.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... Post-humanist discourses, by undermining the disinterested subject as the basis for conceptual knowledge, have brought narrative to the forefront of political thinking. Indicative of the revaluing of narrative thinking is the increasing...

"A world without gravity": the urban pastoral spirituality of Jim Carroll and Kathleen Norris.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... In his 1956 poem "America," Allen Ginsberg directs a series of questions to his nation, which at the time was consumed by cold war paranoia and impaired by a serious case of cultural myopia. Although Ginsberg's self-proclaimed "holy litany" is...

Rick Moody's Purple America: gothic resuscitation in the nuclear age.
September 22, 2005... The fiction of Rick Moody has shown a consistent interest in the subject of adolescence from Garden State to The Black Veil. It is in adolescence that Moody dramatizes important points of origin or watershed moments that come to define the...