College Literature articles from June 2004

College Literature archives from June 2004

A "girlboy's" own story: non-masculine narrativity in Ma Vie en Rose.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... 1. Anti-Narrative "Girlboys" Alain Berliner's film Ma Vie en Rose [My Life in Pink] (1997) puts at center screen an aggressively narrative-resistant protagonist: an effeminate, cross-dressing, boy-loving, girl-identified, pre-pubescent...

Constrained in liberation: performative queerness in Robert McAlmon's Berlin stories.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... One of the most influential developments in gender theory during the 1990s was Judith Butler's contention that "[g]ender ought not to be construed as a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts follow; rather, gender is an...

"I salute the spirit of my communities" (1): autoethnographic innovations in Hmong American literature.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Whenever marginalized peoples come into a historical or ethnographic space that has been defined by the Western imagination,... "[e]ntering the modern world," their distinct histories quickly vanish. Swept up in a destiny...

"Remember Wounded Knee": AIM's use of metonymy in 21st century protest.
June 22, 2004... American Indian issues came to the forefront of national politics in 1973, according to a brief account by Robert Warrior, which is consistent with those of many others, like activists Mary Ellen Crow Dog and Leonard Crow Dog. In 1973 the...

Introduction: new approaches to the eighteenth century.(Special Focus Section: New Approaches to the 18th Century)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... The main current of eighteenth-century studies still runs deep with empirical details. As we go to press, the 2004 meeting of ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) has just concluded. The meeting had something for everyone,...

Provoking the ancients: classical learning and imitation in Fielding and Collier.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Why begin an essay aspiring to a cluster entitled "new approaches to the eighteenth century" by evoking the specter of neoclassicism, especially when the texts that it focuses on are by women? A literary mode rather than a genre, neoclassicism...

Ecocriticism and the long eighteenth century.(Special Focus Section: New Approaches to the 18th Century)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... I. Few subjects garnered more attention from eighteenth-century pundits than the role of nature in literary works. Participants in the discourse of criticism and aesthetics during Britain's Hanover regime not only had to know an iamb from...

Historicizing communities of reading in the long eighteenth century: a report from the classroom.
June 22, 2004... By the time undergraduate students get to a course on eighteenth-century literature, we generally assume that, even though they may not be sophisticated readers of literature, they are able to read. We take reading for granted; reading is a...

Re-reading reading in eighteenth-century literary criticism (1).
June 22, 2004... It has become a commonplace that English literary criticism emerges during the eighteenth century; indeed, its development is often taken as one of the most important aspects of the eighteenth century. (2) For at least the past two decades,...

Rowe's Shakespear (1709) and the Tonson house style.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... In the spring of 1709, Jacob Tonson advertised the publication of a new edition of Shakespeare's plays, the first to appear on the London print market in over a quarter of a century, edited by Nicholas Rowe. Inaugurating what would become one...

Different shades of green.(Review Essays)(The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy)(Greening the Lyre: Environmental Poetics and Ethics)(The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein, eds. 2002. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. $45.00 hc. $22.95 sc. x + 395 pp. Gilcrest, David. W. 2002. Greening the...

Splitting the Baby: The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Myrsiades, Linda S. 2002. Splitting the Baby: The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. $32.95 hc. xi + 203 pp. Few topics have generated more heated discussion in recent decades...

Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Giles, Paul. 2002. Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press. $64.95 hc. $21.95 sc. xiii + 337 pp. In Virtual Americas, Paul Giles picks up where his last book--Transatlantic...

Books received January 16, 2004 to April 15, 2004.(Appendix)
June 22, 2004... Abernathy, Jeff. 2003. To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. Athens: University of Georgia Press. $49.95 hc. $18.95 sc. xii + 225 pp. Altieri, Charles. 2004. The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects....