College Literature articles from June 2006

College Literature archives from June 2006

Rethinking cosmopolitanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Most literature from the apartheid era examines a national identity in crisis, and its reception has highlighted issues of South Africa's unique political development. To apply current theories of cosmopolitanism and their emphasis on...

Culinary eros in contemporary Hispanic female fiction: from kitchen tales to table narratives.
June 22, 2006... Food--the comprehensive, highly sexualized, process of its preparation and ingestion--figures among the most recurrent leitmotivs in erotic art and literature. Hispanic female erotic fiction is no exception: the food theme remains one of its...

The pardoner in Canterbury: class, gender, and urban space in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn.(Canterbury Tales)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400 without bringing his pilgrims to the goal of their pilgrimage, the city of Canterbury with its cathedral's relics of St. Thomas a Becket. Within a few decades, however, several anonymous fifteenth-century poets had...

Rewriting Hesiod, revisioning Korea: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee as a subversive Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Theresa Hak Kyung Cha begins Dictee with an epigraph: "May I write words more naked than flesh, / stronger than bone, more resilient than / sinew, sensitive than nerve" (1995, n.p.). Cha's comparison of words to the flesh, bone, sinew, and...

Philip Levine's "Magpiety" and his literary debt to Czeslaw Milosz.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Ezra Pound once advised: "Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or to try to conceal it" (1972, 60). At first glance, Philip Levine appears to observe the former course...

Deconstructing haiku: a dialogue.
June 22, 2006... Deciphering, normalizing, or tautological, the ways of interpretation, intended in the West to pierce meaning, i. e., to get into it by breaking and entering--and not to shake it, to make it fall like the tooth of that...

Edwin Rolfe's historical witness to the spectacle of McCarthyism.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Historicity is, in fact, neither a representation of the past nor a representation of the future (although its various forms use such representations): it can first and foremost be defined as a perception of the present as history;...

Do you really want a revolution? CyberTheory meets real-life pedagogical practice in FrankenMOO and the conventional literature classroom.
June 22, 2006... A little over a decade ago David Bennahum could write confidently about the revolutionary potential of immersive, interactive, electronic spaces like Object Oriented Multi-User Dimensions (or "MOOs") for the classroom: "Unlike other...

Reading Hurricane Katrina: race, class, and the biopolitics of disposability.
June 22, 2006... Emmett Till's body arrived home in Chicago in September 1955. White racists in Mississippi had tortured, mutilated, and killed the young 14-year-old African-American boy for whistling at a white woman. Determined to make visible the horribly...

Reading race and intertextuality from the abolitionist era to the Harlem Renaissance.(Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature)(Word, Image and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Bennett, Michael. 2005. Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. $62.00 hc. $24.95 sc. 223 pp. Carroll, Anne Elizabeth. 2005. Word, Image and the New...

Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Showalter, Elaine. 2005. Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, $24.95 hc. $16.50 sc. 14 pp. This compact volume is part of University of Pennsylvania Press's "Personal Takes:...

Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Bowen, William G., Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin, 2005. Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. $27.95 hc. xvi + 453 pp. This book began as a series of lectures sponsored...

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Steinberg, Shirley R. and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. 2004. Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004. $30.00 sc. 322 pp. Hopscotch, jacks, hide-and-seek, tag: once upon a time, simple, communal...

The Future of the Page.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Stoicheff, Peter and Andrew Taylor, eds. 2005. The Future of the Page. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. $75.00 hc. $19.95 sc. 330 pp. Professors of the humanities joined graphic artists and writers at the University of Saskatchewan...

A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Poddar, Prem and David Johnson, eds. 2005. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English. New York: Columbia University Press. $95.00 hc. xxxiii + 574pp. One of the most important intellectual developments in the West over the...

Books received January 16, 2006 to April 15, 2006.
June 22, 2006... Ackroyd, Peter. 2005. Shakespeare: The Biography. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $32.50 hc. xvii + 572 pp. Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2005. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred. Perverse...