Contemporary Literature articles from March 1993

Contemporary Literature archives from March 1993

An interview with Valerie Martin. (Interview)
March 22, 1993... Valerie Martin's disturbing personal vision has, over the past fifteen years, continually returned to the city of her youth, testing the limits of the gothic form within a New Orleans of the imagination. The locale of her earlier novels, Set...

"That sense of constant re-adjustment": the great depression and the provisional politics of Elizabeth Bishop's 'North & South.'
March 22, 1993... It is entirely a different thing from being a "rebel" outside the prison; it is to be unconventional, rebellious perhaps, but in shades and shadows. In January 1946, concerned about the political nontopicality of her forthcoming North &...

Barbara Pym and romantic love.
March 22, 1993... Barbara Pym's work is markedly different from that of other contemporary women novelists. On the surface her early novels in particular have the coziness of a Jane Austen world, and it is to Austen, whose influence Pym acknowledged, that she...

Philoctetes radicalized: "Twenty-one Love Poems" and the lyric career of Adrienne Rich.
March 22, 1993... As Willard Spiegelman points out, among the major poets of the English language in this half century, Adrienne Rich is alone in making of lyric a medium adequate to the task of propounding a politics [163]. The Dream of a Common Language...

The rabbi as vaudevillian: Stanley Elkin's comic rhetoric.
March 22, 1993... Long-time readers of Stanley Elkin's novels are likely to find The Rabbi of Lud (1987) surprising on many counts. Its protagonist, Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn, is the only Elkin protagonist (in the long fiction at least) to be portrayed as a...

Burning down the house? Domestic space and feminine subjectivity in Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.'
March 22, 1993... The structures that contain--or fail to contain--women are the houses in which they live. . . . This nature--this space, object, and Other--is, in a sense, no longer natural. . . . What is henceforth necessary for any human subject who...

Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.
March 22, 1993... Postmodernism" for some time now has been hot stuff for the university-based R & D industry, to only mention its cutting-edge status in journalism, fashion, art and architecture, and innumerable avant-gardes. Whatever field is intersected,...

Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism.
March 22, 1993... Postmodernism" for some time now has been hot stuff for the university-based R & D industry, to only mention its cutting-edge status in journalism, fashion, art and architecture, and innumerable avant-gardes. Whatever field is intersected,...

The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction.
March 22, 1993... Postmodernism" for some time now has been hot stuff for the university-based R & D industry, to only mention its cutting-edge status in journalism, fashion, art and architecture, and innumerable avant-gardes. Whatever field is intersected,...

The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde Since 1970.
March 22, 1993... Postmodernism" for some time now has been hot stuff for the university-based R & D industry, to only mention its cutting-edge status in journalism, fashion, art and architecture, and innumerable avant-gardes. Whatever field is intersected,...

Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation.
March 22, 1993... In the history of writing about the Vietnam War, the titles that authors select for their books can often tell us a good deal, not just about content and approach but also about deeper ideo-logical processes at work within American culture....

America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War.
March 22, 1993... In the history of writing about the Vietnam War, the titles that authors select for their books can often tell us a good deal, not just about content and approach but also about deeper ideo-logical processes at work within American culture....

Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature.
March 22, 1993... In the history of writing about the Vietnam War, the titles that authors select for their books can often tell us a good deal, not just about content and approach but also about deeper ideo-logical processes at work within American culture....

Southern Women Writers: The New Generation.
March 22, 1993... In recent decades, regionalism as a defining characteristic of United States literature has begun to lose some of the pejorative force it acquired when it was viewed as a limitation on a writer's vision, with the shadow of the word "mere"...

Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers.
March 22, 1993... In recent decades, regionalism as a defining characteristic of United States literature has begun to lose some of the pejorative force it acquired when it was viewed as a limitation on a writer's vision, with the shadow of the word "mere"...

The Fiction of Anne Tyler.
March 22, 1993... In recent decades, regionalism as a defining characteristic of United States literature has begun to lose some of the pejorative force it acquired when it was viewed as a limitation on a writer's vision, with the shadow of the word "mere"...