College Literature articles from January 2007

College Literature archives from January 2007

Ethics and the lyric: form, dialogue, answerability.
January 1, 2007... In 1934-35, in his long essay "Discourse in the Novel," Russian theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin declared that the natural and healthy state of language, which is a changing, socially stratified, multivocal clatter of discourses, is...

Improvising over the changes: improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka.
January 1, 2007... LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's "Tone Poem" is dedicated to Elvin Jones, one of the major drummers of jazz's post-bebop era, and Bob Thompson, the avant-garde painter whose visual works symbolized the emerging Black Aesthetic in the early 1960s....

The impure and the sacred in the work of Brigit Pegeen Kelly.
January 1, 2007... While the Biblical allusions in Brigit Pegeen Kelly's astonishing poetry are impossible to ignore, critics give them sharply divergent readings. Introducing To the Place of Trumpets, James Merrill describes Kelly as an innocent heretic, and...

Imploding the Miranda complex in Julia Alvarez's how the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
January 1, 2007... A diary like this, with so many blank pages, seems to reflect a life permeated with gaps, an existence full of holes. But perhaps that is what happens when one's experience is so intensely different from anything dreamed of as a...

Practicing deconstruction, again: blindness, insight and the lovely treachery of words in D. H. Lawrence's "The Blind Man".
January 1, 2007... Faced with those who do not want or do not know how to read, I confess I am powerless. (Jacques Derrida, "Biodegradables") The ultimate justification of this mode of criticism, as of any conceivable mode, is that it works. (J. Hillis...

"Dancing is dancing no matter who is doing it": Zora Neale Hurston, literacy, and contemporary writing pedagogy.
January 1, 2007... Zora Neale Hurston, author of novels, short stories, essays, poems, and works of anthropology, knew the concept of "genres" as well as anyone during her time. (1) Hurston, who both mastered and toyed with generic conventions, was interested in...

Transcending the "dust": African American filmmakers preserving the "glimpse of the eternal".
January 1, 2007... Introduction In Africa, it is often said that when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. As the oral tradition fades by which accumulated lore has been passed on, filmmakers step into the void to fulfill the ancient...

Love, the great leveller, or the fortunes of excellence in the University.(English studies)
January 1, 2007... For a while now I've been working on love in several guises, struck by the sheer variety of ways in which different cultures in different times and places keep this space of rational immunity open and yet protected, by the uncanny errantry of...

Was Shakespeare a republican? A review essay.(Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton)(Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe, vol. 1)(Shakespeare and Republicanism)(Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright)(Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage: The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe, vol. 2)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Cheney, Patrick. 2004. Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright. New York: Cambridge University Press. $80.00 hc. xv + 319 pp. Hadfield, Andrew. 2005. Shakespeare and Republicanism. New York: Cambridge University Press. $80.00 hc. xiii + 363...

Looking for Christopher Marlowe.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe)(The World of Christopher Marlowe)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Riggs, David. 2004. The World of Christopher Marlowe. New York: Henry Holt and Co. $30.00 hc. 411 pp. Cheney, Patrick, ed. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge University Press. $75.00 hc. $24.99 sc. 312 pp....

Books received: July 16, 2006 to October 15, 2006.
January 1, 2007... Andreach, Robert J. 2006. Understanding Beth Henley. Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 hc. xi + 192 pp. Barrish, Phillip. 2005. White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy,...