College Literature articles from February 1996

College Literature archives from February 1996

Ethnocentrism and the very idea of literary theory.
February 1, 1996... THE EUROGENETIC FALLACY Before setting out on this project, I realized that few people in literary theory or comparative literature had much familiarity with non-Western literary theories, and fewer still had research expertise in the...

What is 'wen' and why is it made so terribly strange?
February 1, 1996... Difference in language is perhaps the most obvious expression of cultural difference, and the first sign of a stranger or a foreigner is someone who talks strangely. However, from scholars who study foreign languages, literatures, and...

Tracing the traceless antelope: toward an interartistic semiotics of the Chinese sister arts. (poetry and painting)
February 1, 1996... UT PICTURA POESIS AND UT POESIS PICTURA Universal and yet culture-bound, the sister arts tradition makes an interesting case for the comparative study of Chinese and Western poetics. As an essential component of Western as well...

The appeal of a plotless tragedy.
February 1, 1996... The argument of The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No demonstrates how the treatises and the No plays of Zeami, a fourteenth/ fifteenth century writer and playwright, might be helpful in the...

An allegory on the banks of the Nile and other hazards of intercultural literary comparison.
February 1, 1996... Intercultural literary study has numerous hazards and may be fundamentally impossible. Nobody, not even that French wizard, Rene Etiemble, really knows enough literatures, has enough ideas of literature. It would not be difficult to prepare a...

The Islamic roots of the poetic syllogism.
February 1, 1996... In the Poetics, Aristotle scarcely mentions the syllogism. Yet centuries later, during the classical flowering of Medieval islamic scholarship, the Aristotelian commentators Al-Farabi and Avicenna elaborated complex theories of the poetic...

Alfarabi on imagination: with a translation of his "Treatise on Poetry."
February 1, 1996... Though Alfarabi's treatment of imagination has received much critical attention in recent years, a problem that still requires examination is the distinction which Alfarabi introduced between the various terms derived from the root khal. While...

Poetic principles in the South Asian literary tradition: interrelatedness of grammar, prosody and other elements of language.
February 1, 1996... 1. THE POET AS REVEALER OF REALITY IN THE SOUTH ASIAN TRADITION. It is curious that given the present concern with multiculturalism, little attention has been paid to literary traditions in cultures other than the Western. Among...

Derrida and Siva: An Abhinavaguptan look at the transcendental signified. (Jacques Derrida)
February 1, 1996... As is well known, Jacques Derrida repudiates any "transcendental signified" or "center," and this repudiation co-determines his postulations concerning "differance." Differance, which putatively disallows the process of using literal language...

'Dhvani' and the "full word": suggestion and signification from Abhinavagupta to Jacques Lacan.
February 1, 1996... Impediment, failure, split. In a spoken or written sentence something stumbles. Freud is attracted by these phenomena, and it is there that he seeks the unconscious. There, something other demands to be realize -- which appears as intentional,...

Toward a cognitive science of poetics: Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, and the theory of literature.
February 1, 1996... Roy Bhaskar has remarked that realists are unblushingly falliblist and historicist about science. They feel no need to be uncritical and `complimentary' about everything that passes for knowledge or is done in science's name . . . no reason to...

Non-Western literary theories and what to do with them.
February 1, 1996... The theoretical project of this volume is no doubt ambitious in its broad scope, yet each essay focuses on a central easthetic concept that can be used to interpret European and non-European literary texts in new ways. Many of these key...

Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace, 1670-1820.
February 1, 1996... WHAT'S A FEMINIST"? Whether, it, s cast as anti-feminist backlash, per Susan Faludi, or the unlawful theft of masculinity's intrinsic value, per Robert Bly, or women's inability to face up to their own and men's naturally different...

Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition.
February 1, 1996... WHAT'S A FEMINIST"? Whether, it, s cast as anti-feminist backlash, per Susan Faludi, or the unlawful theft of masculinity's intrinsic value, per Robert Bly, or women's inability to face up to their own and men's naturally different...

Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics.
February 1, 1996... The historical evolution of interdisciplinarity points to the fragmentation of knowledge that occurred from the 16th through the 19th centuries, as an inciting force for its development, as well as the growth of materialistic empirical systems...

There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too.
February 1, 1996... The historical evolution of interdisciplinarity points to the fragmentation of knowledge that occurred from the 16th through the 19th centuries, as an inciting force for its development, as well as the growth of materialistic empirical systems...

Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism.
February 1, 1996... The historical evolution of interdisciplinarity points to the fragmentation of knowledge that occurred from the 16th through the 19th centuries, as an inciting force for its development, as well as the growth of materialistic empirical systems...

Legal Studies as Cultural Studies: A Reader in (Post)modern Critical Theory.
February 1, 1996... The historical evolution of interdisciplinarity points to the fragmentation of knowledge that occurred from the 16th through the 19th centuries, as an inciting force for its development, as well as the growth of materialistic empirical systems...

Dark Mirror: The Sense of Injustice in Modern European and American Literature.
February 1, 1996... The historical evolution of interdisciplinarity points to the fragmentation of knowledge that occurred from the 16th through the 19th centuries, as an inciting force for its development, as well as the growth of materialistic empirical systems...

Writing Women in Jacobean England.
February 1, 1996... Feminist scholarship and cultural studies scholarship have produced an admirable list of recent books that apply historical rigor and materialist models to enable new ways of studying actual women's lives, literary and non-literary portrayals...

"My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem by Martha Moulsworth.
February 1, 1996... Feminist scholarship and cultural studies scholarship have produced an admirable list of recent books that apply historical rigor and materialist models to enable new ways of studying actual women's lives, literary and non-literary portrayals...

The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England.
February 1, 1996... Feminist scholarship and cultural studies scholarship have produced an admirable list of recent books that apply historical rigor and materialist models to enable new ways of studying actual women's lives, literary and non-literary portrayals...

The Location of Culture.
February 1, 1996... In the aftermath of the revisionisms of the New Left and the national "identity" confusions that followed upon the Algerian War and the Vietnam War, in US and Western European theory, a seemingly new space opened to address (and manage) the...

The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.
February 1, 1996... The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States is a big book: over a thousand pages with almost eight hundred entries, written by five hundred plus contributors. its essential bigness, however, stems from its editorial vision:...

Eminent Rhetoric: Language, Gender, and Cultural Tropes.
February 1, 1996... In this explication of the ways in which culture complicates the a means of persuasion, Elizabeth A. Fay draws on the intellectual heritage of such leftist thinkers as Paulo Freire, bell hooks, the French feminists Helene Cixous and Catherine...