College Literature articles from January 2004

College Literature archives from January 2004

The society for the prevention of cruelty to narrative.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... This article examines heroin in the 1995 film Trainspotting as a remedy for the literary declivity of senescence. The film's protagonist, Mark Renton, is compared to another literary drug user, Sherlock Holmes, to explain the title. Through his...

Genevieve Taggard's sentimental Marxism in calling Western Union.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
January 1, 2004... This article investigates Genevieve Taggard's Calling Western Union (1936), the only volume of Taggard's poetry devoted to class issues. It argues that this work is more complex than its obvious Marxism suggests because Taggard recasts an...

Contextualizing Bridget Jones.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Helen Fielding has been praised for the authentic narrative voice in Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, but critics argue that the novels are anti-feminist because of Bridget's failure to remake herself and to control...

Postmodernism and subversive parody: John Yau's "Genghis Chan: private eye" series.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... This article examines the subversive strategy of parody in John Yau's poetic series entitled "Genghis Chan: Private Eye," by situating Yau's work in the contexts of postmodern poetics, Hollywood films, and Asian American history and culture....

The politics of re-homing: Asian diaspora poetry in Canada.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... This article examines the changing nature and meanings of home in diaspora, and discusses the complicated re-homing process among various cultural locations. Asian diaspora poetry in Canada represents a paradoxical feeling of both home-sickness...

"In the Sinai of knowledge": narrating the old/new Jewish nation in Shulamith Hareven's thirst. The desert trilogy.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... The tension between divine law, the law of nature, the law of the state and the law of the individual (conscience) is of course an enduring one in world literature since at least the moment that Sophocles's Antigone first eruped on stage. With...

The woman, the woman, the gypsies, and England: Harriet Smith's national role.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Austen's Emma captures a culture in transition; Highbury may be a content society based upon traditional civic power structures, but it is also a community experiencing definite uncertainty as England becomes a modern state. Critics of Emma...

Of acedenia, romantic imagination and irony revisited: a background note for readings of under the volcano.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Under the Volcano's rehearsal of the Coleridgean sense of imagination, with its ironic, synthetic grammar figured as "cold fire," seems inconsistent with readings of the novel as something of a para-medieval exemplum for caritas and therefore...

Applying cultural criticism to the study of early popular romances.(A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas Heywood)(Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Courtland, Joseph. 2001. A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas Heywood. Studies in the Humanities. 58. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. $49.95 hc. xvi + 159 pp. Newcomb, Lori Humphrey. 2002. Reading Popular...

Kinservik, Matthew J. 2002. Disciplining Satire: the Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth Century London Stage.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. $38.50 hc. 301 pp. I recently saw a production of April De Angelis's new play A Laughing Matter at the Royal National Theatre. It merrily dramatizes the choice between financial concerns and artistic...

Trigg, Stephanie. 2002. Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Medieval Cultures Series, vol. 30. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $22.95 sc. xxiv + 280 pp. Near her first monograph's end, Stephanie Trigg reckons that Congenial Souls "no doubt... has offended or frustrated many readers."...

Olson, Gary A. 2002. Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Albany: SUNY Press. $65.50 hc. $21.95 sc. 178 pp. Justifying Belief is a concise synthesis of Stanley Fish's recent work on nonliterary topics and, as such, clarifies some of Fish's more contentious discussions on topics such as the...

Stirrings still; or, the impossibility of mourning the deaths of Edward Said.(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... "[T]hy worldly task hast done... /... [R]enowed be thy grave:" (Cymbeline, IV, ii, 282) So much to write about, and I do not have the heart for it; so much to say about what has happened to us, with the death of Edward; so much to say...

Books received July 16, 2003 to October 15, 2003.
January 1, 2004... Andrews, William L. and Douglas Taylor, eds. 2003. Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press. $55.00 hc. viii + 210 pp. Aruri, Naseer H. 2003. Dishonest Broker: The US Role in Israel and...