College Literature articles from June 1996

College Literature archives from June 1996

Parody and Pedagogy: teaching style, voice, and authorial intent in the works of Gertrude Stein.
June 1, 1996... Abdicate the role of sibyl, At your secret let us nibble. Pray divulge, reveal, disclose In communicable prose Why a rose a rose a rose. Melville Cane, "Appeal to Gertrude" (1927) Few authors have benefited more from the anti-formalism of...

Don Delillo's White Noise: the natural of the species.
June 1, 1996... White Noise is probably the only novel written by a white male American in the last fifteen years to have consistently broken through to reading lists at colleges and universities in the United States. Given the canon quakes of the last decade,...

Manipulating cultural assumptions: transgression and obedience in David Wojahn's rock 'n' roll sonnets.
June 1, 1996... One impetus for David Wojahn's series of poems about the cultural phenomenon of rock 'n' roll, published as the middle section of his third collection, Mystery Train (1990), can be fairly well traced to the issue of historical and poetic novelty....

The problem of Malvolio.
June 1, 1996... The origins of the main plot in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night have been traced to a cluster of earlier comedies and their derivatives; however, the subplot, involving Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Maria, and their "gull," Malvolio, was entirely...

Language, history, and the university: de Man on translation.
June 1, 1996... The English profession has long depended on translation; however, until recently, its role was decidedly supplementary to the more central work of teaching and producing criticism. Even within university departments that are affiliated with...

Simulating oralities: French fairy tales of the 1690s.
June 1, 1996... ". . .we must give up the fiction that collects these sounds under the sign of a 'Voice,' of a 'Culture' of its own - or of the great Other's. Rather, orality insinuates itself. . .into the network - an endless tapestry - of a scriptural...

Teaching class: a pedagogy and politics for working-class writing.
June 1, 1996... Culture has replaced brutality as a means of maintaining the status quo. (Tuer 196) While class becomes an increasingly important category of analysis with-in academic discourse, it is simultaneously, paradoxically, being drummed out of our...

"I have spoken": fictional "orality" in indigenous fiction.
June 1, 1996... "I Have Spoken," a standard rhetorical closing formula in allegedly Native American speechmaking, contains the problem addressed in this paper in a nutshell. Predating but in frequent use especially during the times of James Ferimore Cooper, it...

Creative reasoning in the interactive classroom: experiential exercises for teaching George Orwell's "Animal Farm."
June 1, 1996... Simplification is vexation, Work sheets are as bad; Then the old ennui just crushes me, And practice drives me mad! So give me argumentation! More give and take agrees, Helps me in my education, Then Orwell seems a breeze. ("The Bald-headed Bard"...

Silas Lapham in Olomouc.
June 1, 1996... In 1993 I joined the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University as a Fulbright Lecturer. For my first term seminar in realism and modernism, I chose to focus on narratives that record the transformation of social and...

Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood.
June 1, 1996... Perhaps critics need to examine the current commonplace assumption that politics and literature are two versions of the same thing. Certainly that is one impulse behind Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism. In this book Tobin Siebers...

Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism.
June 1, 1996... Perhaps critics need to examine the current commonplace assumption that politics and literature are two versions of the same thing. Certainly that is one impulse behind Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism. In this book Tobin Siebers...

Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements.
June 1, 1996... Perhaps critics need to examine the current commonplace assumption that politics and literature are two versions of the same thing. Certainly that is one impulse behind Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism. In this book Tobin Siebers...

It's Not About a Salary ... Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles.
June 1, 1996... "The idea of musical 'authenticity' is certainly a suburban idea" (Frith 4). Suburban it may be, but the idea of musical authenticity seems to be alive and kicking, not to say disturbingly influential, in the world of popular-music studies. In...

High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music.
June 1, 1996... "The idea of musical 'authenticity' is certainly a suburban idea" (Frith 4). Suburban it may be, but the idea of musical authenticity seems to be alive and kicking, not to say disturbingly influential, in the world of popular-music studies. In...

National Culture and the New Global System.
June 1, 1996... Must not the virtue of modern Individualism, continually enlarging, usurping all, seriously affect, perhaps keep down entirely, in America, the like of the ancient virtue of Patriotism, the fervid and absorbing love of general country? I have no...

The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, and Democracy in American Literature.
June 1, 1996... Must not the virtue of modern Individualism, continually enlarging, usurping all, seriously affect, perhaps keep down entirely, in America, the like of the ancient virtue of Patriotism, the fervid and absorbing love of general country? I have no...

The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich's Feminist Poetics.
June 1, 1996... TERENCE DIGGORY SKIDMORE COLLEGE One of the basic principles assumed by Alice Templeton in her reading of Adrienne Rich's career is that each of the poet's volumes acquires particular meaning from the issues dominating critical debate at the...

Community, Religion, Literature.
June 1, 1996... JOHN N. DUVALL THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS I first encountered the writing of Cleanth Brooks twenty years ago in a sophomore English class. The class exemplified New Critical pedagogy, both in what we read (Shakespeare, Donne, Frost, Faulkner)...

A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner.
June 1, 1996... MICHAEL KREYLING VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Writing literary or cultural history is a project of paradigm installation: beginnings, middles, and ends; tops and bottoms; before and afters; goods, betters, bests; ours and theirs. The chronological...

Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930.
June 1, 1996... LUIZ FERNANDO VALENTE BROWN UNIVERSITY After a long hibernation on the fringes of academic debate, national identity has reemerged as one of the hottest topics of the 1990s, curiously enough at the same moment as attention is being increasingly...

Identity and Community: Reflections on English, Yiddish and French Literature in Canada.
June 1, 1996... MARGARET MICHELE COOK UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA Irving Massey sets out to compare three Canadian authors in terms of the concepts of identity and community. For his examination of these questions, he has chosen Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Ida Maza,...

The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna: Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science, Texts and Studies, vol. 9.
June 1, 1996... CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK Whether the tradition of including the Rhetoric and the Poetics along with the other books generally recognized as comprising Aristotle's Organon is an innovation that originated...