Contemporary Literature articles from March 1995

Contemporary Literature archives from March 1995

An interview with Susan Howe. (poet) (Interview)
March 22, 1995... Born in 1937, the daughter of an Irish actress and a Harvard scholar of American history, Susan Howe did not begin writing poetry until relatively late - having first explored possible careers in the theater and, more extensively, in the visual...

The company poets keep: allusion, echo, and the question of who is listening in W.H. Auden and James Merrill.
March 22, 1995... W. H. Auden's finest extended example of light verse, "Letter to Lord Byron," is implicitly a complaint about the social conditions for poetry that have rendered light verse impossible.(1) Auden laments the isolation of the poet from his...

Penelope reworking the twill: patchwork, writing, and Lyn Hejinian's 'My Life.'
March 22, 1995... Spin it, then weave it, and wear it out, out. Lyn Hejinian, My Life In the last two decades, so-called Language writing has yielded a collection of heterogeneous but consistently - and notoriously - "difficult" texts. With the kind of...

After 'The Tempest': Shakespeare, postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff's new, new world Miranda.
March 22, 1995... The Merchant-Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah (1965) records the demise of an aging, out-of-date troupe of primarily English Shakespearean actors in postindependence India. Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, herself a citizen of two worlds, the film...

"All names mean something": Salman Rushdie's 'Haroun' and the legacy of Islam.
March 22, 1995... Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) celebrates the triumph of storytelling and imagination over raw power and dogmatism. The fairy tale was published shortly after Rushdie was put under protective custody following the death...

The momentum of word-magic in James Dickey's 'The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy.'
March 22, 1995... Mythologies 290. WORKS CITED Baughman, Ronald. "James Dickey's War Poetry: A 'Saved, Shaken Life.'" South Carolina Review 10 (Apr. 1983): 38-48. -----, ed. The Voiced Connections of James Dickey: Interviews and Conversations. Columbia:...

The Parameters of Postmodernism.
March 22, 1995... Yes, Virginia, there is a postmodernism. There must be. There are so many books about it, it has to exist. The question may be How many more re-viewings of the same theories and ideas can the topic bear, without the kind of major changes in...

Jacques Derrida.
March 22, 1995... In the actual world Nietzsche was a twitchy, irresolute, nomadic nerd who never got a life outside literature. But consider the possible world in which Nietzsche got lucky early on and wound up a happy, affectionate, suburban paterfamilias. In...