College Literature articles from June 1995

College Literature archives from June 1995

Literary theory and the role of the university.
June 1, 1995... One goal of my title is to provoke a certain response. Don't you have things turned around? Shouldn't it be the role of literary theory in the university? I want to argue here that for complex reasons literary theory - not a unitary concept by...

Toward an unfinalizable dialogue: Robert Musil's essayism and Bakhtinian dialogism.
June 1, 1995... Essayismus is a term Austrian writer and philosopher Robert Musil coins in reaction to the many social, cultural, and historical changes that erupt with the turn of the century, only to intensify further with the advent of World War I. Inspired...

British and Irish Drama since 1960.
June 1, 1995... One of the principal debates swirling through the field of theater studies these days is the Evidence vs. Theory debate. The quarrel centers on the question of whether past or present theatrical activity is best understood by employing the...

Performing Women: Female Characters, Male Playwrights, and the Modern Stage.
June 1, 1995... One of the principal debates swirling through the field of theater studies these days is the Evidence vs. Theory debate. The quarrel centers on the question of whether past or present theatrical activity is best understood by employing the...

The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England.
June 1, 1995... One of the principal debates swirling through the field of theater studies these days is the Evidence vs. Theory debate. The quarrel centers on the question of whether past or present theatrical activity is best understood by employing the...

Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism.
June 1, 1995... African-American writing has always been in some sense a form of cultural criticism. From Phillis Wheatley's demand that white Christians recognize black virtue to Frederick Douglass's deconstruction of Fourth of July celebrations to W. E. B. Du...

Lure and Loathing.
June 1, 1995... African-American writing has always been in some sense a form of cultural criticism. From Phillis Wheatley's demand that white Christians recognize black virtue to Frederick Douglass's deconstruction of Fourth of July celebrations to W. E. B. Du...

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery.
June 1, 1995... African-American writing has always been in some sense a form of cultural criticism. From Phillis Wheatley's demand that white Christians recognize black virtue to Frederick Douglass's deconstruction of Fourth of July celebrations to W. E. B. Du...

Race Matters.
June 1, 1995... African-American writing has always been in some sense a form of cultural criticism. From Phillis Wheatley's demand that white Christians recognize black virtue to Frederick Douglass's deconstruction of Fourth of July celebrations to W. E. B. Du...

Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism.
June 1, 1995... We merely show the world why it actually struggles; and the awareness of this is something the world must acquire even if it does not want to. (Marx 214) Every institution gives a position. It does not give legitimation. (de Certeau 19) The...

Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians, and Communism.
June 1, 1995... We merely show the world why it actually struggles; and the awareness of this is something the world must acquire even if it does not want to. (Marx 214) Every institution gives a position. It does not give legitimation. (de Certeau 19) The...

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation.
June 1, 1995... Few questions have provoked more interest in the academy in recent years than the matter of what books are read and why - or, in other words, how literary canons are formed. While many have focussed on the books themselves, and/or their authors,...

The Yellow Wallpaper.
June 1, 1995... Few questions have provoked more interest in the academy in recent years than the matter of what books are read and why - or, in other words, how literary canons are formed. While many have focussed on the books themselves, and/or their authors,...

A Good Man is Hard to Find.
June 1, 1995... Few questions have provoked more interest in the academy in recent years than the matter of what books are read and why - or, in other words, how literary canons are formed. While many have focussed on the books themselves, and/or their authors,...

Flowering Judas.
June 1, 1995... Few questions have provoked more interest in the academy in recent years than the matter of what books are read and why - or, in other words, how literary canons are formed. While many have focussed on the books themselves, and/or their authors,...

Geography and Plays.
June 1, 1995... Few questions have provoked more interest in the academy in recent years than the matter of what books are read and why - or, in other words, how literary canons are formed. While many have focussed on the books themselves, and/or their authors,...

Cape Cod.
June 1, 1995... Few questions have provoked more interest in the academy in recent years than the matter of what books are read and why - or, in other words, how literary canons are formed. While many have focussed on the books themselves, and/or their authors,...

Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic.
June 1, 1995... In the last twenty-five years, a number of critics have produced extremely perceptive book-length studies of African-American fiction. Although the Harlem Renaissance clearly anticipates the thesis that black literature is firmly grounded in the...

Theorizing Black Feminism: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women.
June 1, 1995... Theorizing Black Feminisms developed out of two interdisciplinary conferences on black feminist theory held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1990 and at Spelman College in Atlanta the following year. This important anthology, which...

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics.
June 1, 1995... In recent years, comprehensive overviews of literary periods, like periodization itself, have fallen out of fashion. Isobel Armstrong characterizes her book as "a series of essays rather than a continuous history" and warns us that "the...

Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development.
June 1, 1995... In this beautifully written book, Susan Fraiman uses intelligence and cunning to celebrate the ability of women to protest the constraints that history often places on their development. By asking the question, "Is there a female Bildungsroman?"...

The Oxford Book of Children's Stories.(Children's Review)
June 1, 1995... Children's literature has developed considerably in the post Second World War period, today confronting all kinds of economic, social, ethical, political, and ideological issues. Picturebooks like Leslea Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies (1989),...