College Literature articles from June 2002

College Literature archives from June 2002

Introduction: literature and the visual arts; questions of influence and intertextuality.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... A reading of the articles in this collection, which focus on the cross-fertilization between literary and visual works of art including paintings, icons, magazine and television advertising, opera, and film, prompts reflections on the nature of...

Plath, domesticity, and the art of advertising.(Sylvia Plath)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Sylvia Plath is not only one of America's major poets, but also literary culture's ultimate commodity. In 1998 she earned a spot in Time magazine's special issue, "100 Artists and Entertainers of the Century." More recently, the New Yorker ran...

Sylvia Plath's transformations of modernist paintings.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Introduction SYLVIA PLATH's letters and journals document her knowledge of and interest in painting--especially modernist paintings. In the letters and journals she mentions De Chirico, Gauguin, Goya, Gris, Klee, Matisse, Picasso,...

Art, literature, and the Harlem Renaissance: the messages of God's Trombones.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... In 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, James Weldon Johnson published a slim book of poetry, God's Trombones. (1) The book includes transcriptions of seven sermons often delivered by African-American preachers, as well as an opening...

Beyond ekphrasis: Logos and Eikon in Rilke's poetry.(Rainer Maria Rilke)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The Kremlin's Dormition Cathedral (Figure 1), Easter Sunday, 1899: priests sing, icons glitter, censers swing. Immersed in the all-enveloping Orthodox liturgy, Rainer Maria Rilke encountered logos, the creative word, in his ears, eyes, and all...

The Virgin Annunciate in Italian art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
June 22, 2002... The story of the ANNUNCIATION in the Gospel of Luke has been portrayed richly and variously in the visual arts from the earliest centuries of Christianity. Told from the perspective of the VIRGIN Mary Luke's brief tale lays the foundation for...

Modernity's revision of the dancing daughter: the Salome narrative of wilde and strauss.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The ancient Salome narrative contained all the necessary elements and actions for the master storyteller to develop into mythic proportions. An accusation of incest thunders from the lips of a prophet dressed in camel's hair and a leather belt....

Orson Welles's 'The Trial': Film Noir and the Kafkaesque.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Most critics agree that the classical period of film noir began in 1941 with John Huston's Maltese Falcon and ended in 1958 with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil. In an influential essay of 1972 entitled "Notes on Film Noir" screenwriter/director...

Staying new: questions of growth in postcolonial studies.(three books on postcolonial studies)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, eds. 2000. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies. Durham: Duke University Press. $64.95 hc. 421 pages. Rowe, John Carlos. 2000. Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the...

Collaboration, Materialism, and Masochism: New Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Sentimental Literature and Culture.(three books on sentimental literature)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Kete, Mary Louise. 2000. Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. Durham: Duke University Press. $54.95 hc. $18.95 sc. xx + 304 pp. Merish, Lori. 2000. Sentimental Materialism: Gender,...

Other Traditions. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Ashury, John. 2000. Other Traditions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. $22.95 hc. 192 pp. The problem with much critical work on poetry, especially where the word "tradition" appears in its title, is that too often the discourse is...

Pregnant Pictures. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Mathews, Sandra, and Laura Wexler. 2000. Pregnant Pictures. New York: Routledge. $85.00 hc. $35.00 sc. xvii+263pp. With over two hundred startling, transformative photographs, Pregnant Pictures is a gorgeous book inviting readers to flip...

Black, White, and "Huckleberry Finn": Re-imagining the American Dream. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Mensh, Elaine, and Harry Mensh. 2000. Black, White, and "Huckleberry Finn": Re-imagining the American Dream. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. $29.95 hc. 168 pp. "Is Huck Finn a racist? If he is, is it right that his story is read...

After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Guinn, Matthew. 2000. After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. $45.00 hc. $18.00 Sc. xxviii + 202 pp. Nearly a decade after Fred Hobson took the first tentative steps toward...