Contemporary Literature articles from December 1996

Contemporary Literature archives from December 1996

An interview with Carla Harryman.(Interview)
December 22, 1996... Carla Harryman is a prose writer, playwright, poet, and essayist. Born in 1952 and raised in Orange, California, Harryman moved to San Francisco in the early seventies. She is one of the relatively few women who participated in the very...

The postmodern turn on(:) the enlightenment.
December 22, 1996... The eighteenth-century Enlightenment is generally understood as the birth time of late modernity, the "Age of Reason" heralded by the 1687 publication of Isaac Newton's Principia and consolidating a Newtonian science of nature as...

Through a glass darkly: visions of integrated community in Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood.'
December 22, 1996... For some time now, critics have taken Flannery O'Connor's fiction to task for its failure to endorse the historical struggle for racial integration and equality. Basing their argument on readings of the late stories which respond directly to...

Unsettling the wilderness: Susan Howe and American history.
December 22, 1996... The growing critical interest in Susan Howe's poetry and prose may be one indication of a turn against a now familiar postmodern aesthetics of surface and pure "style."(1) For Howe's development of an exploratory poetics has been closely...

For whom the bell tolls: Don DeLillo's 'Americana.'
December 22, 1996... Don DeLillo's 1971 novel Americana, his first, represents a rethinking of the identity or alienation theme that had figured with particular prominence in the quarter century after the close of World War II. The theme persists in DeLillo, but...

Experimental poetics and the lyric in British women's poetry: Geraldine Monk, Wendy Mulford, and Denise Riley.
December 22, 1996... The work is / e. g. to write 'she' . . ." These words from the British poet Denise Riley (Dry Air 7) direct us to consider the multifaceted feminist project of contemporary women's poetry, while pointing toward a commonly polarized debate...

Skirting the Issue: Essays in Literary Theory.
December 22, 1996... Luce Irigaray, has published more than a dozen volumes since Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One made her (with Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva) one of the icons of a "French feminism" that has recently been debunked...

Thinking the Difference: For a Peaceful Revolution.
December 22, 1996... Luce Irigaray, has published more than a dozen volumes since Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One made her (with Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva) one of the icons of a "French feminism" that has recently been debunked...

Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction.
December 22, 1996... Glenwood Irons's collection of critical essays Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction, the third full-length work published since 1988 specifically on feminist detective fiction, is a notable contribution to a flourishing critical genre.(1)...

Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry.
December 22, 1996... Asked a few years ago where he thought literary studies might be heading, Stanley Fish responded, Look for more discussions about a new aestheticism."(1) It seemed, at the time, an unlikely prospect, for the academy gave evidence of wishing...

A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing.
December 22, 1996... Asked a few years ago where he thought literary studies might be heading, Stanley Fish responded, Look for more discussions about a new aestheticism."(1) It seemed, at the time, an unlikely prospect, for the academy gave evidence of wishing...

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism.
December 22, 1996... Asked a few years ago where he thought literary studies might be heading, Stanley Fish responded, Look for more discussions about a new aestheticism."(1) It seemed, at the time, an unlikely prospect, for the academy gave evidence of wishing...