College Literature articles from January 1999

College Literature archives from January 1999

Political Science Fiction.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Hassler, Donald M., and Clyde Wilcox, eds. 1997. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 hc. 257 pp. The title of this collection of essays, Political Science Fiction, cleverly encodes both the double interest of the editors...

A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Skerl, Jennie, ed. 1997. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. $34.95 hc. ix + 185pp. In Jane Bowles's unfinished novel, Going to Massachusetts, a character whose goal is to "be like God" tells her lover, "I can md no rest, and I...

Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Paulson, Ronald. 1997. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $35 hc. xx + 242 pp. Paulson's study of the influence of Don Quixote on the English literary imagination is of interest to students of the entire modern period because it...

Sexual Politics and the Male Play Wright: The Portrayal of Women in Ten Contemporary Plays.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ramanathan, Geetha. 1996. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. $32.50 hc. 190 pp. The proliferation of feminist studies during the last twenty years has led to a broad exploration of diverse questions and established fields. However, some areas...

Female Subjects in Black and White.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Abel, Elizabeth, Barbara Christian, and Helene Moglen, eds. 1997. Berkeley: University of California Press. $48 hc. $17.95 sc. vii + 373 pp. Originating in a conference on "Psychoanalysis in African-American Contexts: Feminist...

Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Corse, Sarah M. 1997. Cambridge Cultural Social Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press. $54.95 hc. $17.95 sc. xii + 213. Cultural nationalism is an exercise in differentiation, typically based on international differences in...

Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Lestringant, Frank. 1997. The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, No. 37. Berkeley: University of California Press. $38 hc. vi + 247 pp. Eating people is in. Anthony Hopkins's Academy Award-winning portrayal of Hannibal "the...

The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contest of Authority, and 17th-Century English Culture.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Grey, Robin. 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $59.95 hc. 294 pp The phrase "dissenting discourse" sums up, in brief, the subject matter of The Complicity of Imagination, Robin Grey's study of the relationship between...

Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, Charles Fuller.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. 1997. New York: Garland. $44 hc. 234 pp. Contemporary African American Theater contributes to the study of African American drama "based on theoretical aspects of drama" (ix). Nilgun Anadolu-Okur writes this book in...

Family Matters in the British and American Novel.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Herrera, Andrea O'Reilly, Elizabeth Mahn Nollen, and Sheila Reitzel Foor, eds. 1997. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. $9.00 sc. 294 pp. The thirteen essays in this collection examine novels from the...