College Literature articles from June 1994

College Literature archives from June 1994

Masculine silence: 'Epicoene' and Jonsonian stylistics.
June 1, 1994... Nor was hee only a strong, but an absolute Speaker, and Writer: but his subtilty did not shew it selfe; his judgement thought that a vice. For the ambush hurts more that is hid. (Jonson, Timber 837-40; H&S 8: 589)(1) Speake, but man and man...

"Never doubt I love": misreading Hamlet.
June 1, 1994... Goldberg, Jonathan. "Hamlet's Hand." Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988): 307-27. Hartman, Geoffrey. The Fate of Reading. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1975. Hawkes, Terence. Shakespeare's Talking Animals: Language and Drama in Society. Tottowa:...

Narrative and class in a culture of consumption: the significance of stories in Sarah Kemble Knight's 'Journal.'
June 1, 1994... As money well imployed, turneth both to the commoditie of him that receiveth it, and likewise of him that disburseth it: so woordes well considered, bring profit to the hearer, and prayse to the speaker. And as out of one purse are drawen diverse...

Manipulating the metaphors: 'The House of Mirth' and "the volcanic nether-side" of "sexuality."
June 1, 1994... Both explicitly and implicitly, critics often categorize The House of Mirth's female characters in terms of their "sexuality": Lily Bart's ladylike passivity, characteristic of "arrested" female desire; Lily's "double" Bertha Dorset as "active,"...

Willa Cather's Godfrey St. Peter: historian of repressed sensibility?
June 1, 1994... Hayden White notes in "The Burden of History" that a "good deal of twentieth century literature . . . manifest[s] a hostility toward the historical consciousness . . . evidenced most clearly in the practice of using the historian to represent the...

Embedded narratives of science and culture in James's 'Daisy Miller.' (novel)
June 1, 1994... 1. INTRODUCTION Leon Edel has observed that Henry James's pen "was driven by the nerves and the temperament of an individual impervious on the whole to the great scientific strains of his century" (169). But James, both in his own right and...

Dissenting in an age of frenzied heterosexualism: Kinbote's transparent closet in Nabokov's 'Pale Fire.' (novel)
June 1, 1994... Kinbote's homosexuality . . . is a metaphor for the artist's minority view of a bad world, of "our cynical age of frantic heterosexualism." If one dared risk a guess at correlative idiosyncrasies in Nabokov himself, one would have to point to his...

Reconstructing kin: family, history and narrative in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.' (novel)
June 1, 1994... In "Reading Family Matters," Deborah E. McDowell narrates the on-going controversy surrounding a small but outstanding group of black female writers and critics' accusations that these writers are fracturing the image of an already besieged black...

Frame lock. (literary practice)
June 1, 1994... Lost Wages, Nev., Nov. 13--Riddick Bowe, the 25-year-old challenger from Brooklyn outgunned Evander Holyfield through 12 gritty rounds to win the undisputed world heavyweight title. . . . Afterward, when the decision was announced, a weary...

The very short stories of Raymond Carver.
June 1, 1994... Today, we no longer work on that which we cannot abbreviate. In fact, we have managed even to abbreviate stories. (Benjamin 394)(1) The three volumes of poems that Raymond Carver has added to his large collection of stories have received a very...

Comments on course syllabus: identity and otherness in film and fiction.
June 1, 1994... Two primary objectives guided my development of this course. First, I wanted to design a course that unfolded in a dialogical manner. Rather than a course in a particular area of ethnic literature, where authorial differences in point of view,...

The Slate of Life: An Anthology of Stories by Indian Women.
June 1, 1994... Mixed Reviews: Two Collections of Short Stories by Indian Women, Two Images, and a Recoding of a Broken Conversation between History's Divided Subjects. MIGRATION AS EXPERIENCE (JANUARY 1991) The recent appearance of Truth Tales in the...

The Senses of Non-Sense.
June 1, 1994... Modern poetry studies have a tenuous hold within the various institutional structures that define the academy, and so it is no accident that one needs to look closely at the university press publishing lists to discover these two recent, very...

The Cultural Studies Reader.
June 1, 1994... As Simon During argues in the Introduction to The Cultural Studies Reader, cultural studies is characterized by its attentiveness to the ways in which all practices are implicated in economic and power relations. This accounts for its concern...

The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father in Early Western Culture.
June 1, 1994... The author states in his introduction that this book is about "paternity's being configured and projected in Western texts as an origin of culture and world order and as a guarantor of cultural law and justice" and indicates his intention to...

The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance.
June 1, 1994... Lawrence Kritzman's latest work, The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance, seeks to make a difference in the way we read sixteenth-century French literature. The result is impressive. The essays, which survey some...

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media.
June 1, 1994... For the past twenty years Marjorie Perloff has indefatigably committed herself to writing what she calls in Poetic License "a revisionist history of twentieth-century poetics" (2). In the mid-1970s, Perloff's essays on Ashbery, Beckett, Pound,...

If I Am Not For Myself....
June 1, 1994... The title of this study is based on the Rabbinic maxim, "If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am for myself alone, what am I?" (Mishna Avot 1: 14). Wisse, concentrating on the first part, examines how applicable liberalism is for...

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men.
June 1, 1994... Every poetry anthology is a polemic. Each new collection seeks to debunk a current ideology or entrench the old line. One need look no further than the anthology wars that occurred several decades ago to see the potential results: American poetry...

Where My Heart is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform.
June 1, 1994... This book will serve as a corrective to the all-too-common view that little significant literature emerged in response to the American Civil War. Kathleen Diffley demonstrates that our complacency in letting the Civil War evaporate from literary...

'Here a Captive Heart Busted": Studies in the Sentimental Journey of Modern Literature.
June 1, 1994... Recent accounts of sentimental writing, particularly those focusing on American literature like Cathy Davidson's Revolution and the Word (1986) and Jane Tompkins' Sensational Designs (1985), have identified the role of sentimental works in...