College Literature articles from June 2007

College Literature archives from June 2007

Just look at that post-colonial shuffle!(West Indian novels in English)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... My material-my past, separated from me by place as well-was fixed and, like childhood itself, complete; it couldn't be added to. The way of writing consumed it. (VS. Naipaul, Reading and Writing, 28) The West Indian novel in...

Wildean philosophy with a needle and thread: consumer fashion at the origins of modernist aesthetics.(Oscar Wilde)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... In 1891, Oscar Wilde published his essay, "The Soul of Man under Socialism," a work that proclaims the value of socialism and that defends the artist against a bourgeois public: Wilde thus takes a stance against consumer culture. (1) He attacks...

"The Penelope work of forgetting": dreams, memory, and the recovery of wholeness in Joy Kogawa's Obasan.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... It is characteristic of a "remembering author" like Proust, Walter Benjamin argues, that he aims, not at the realization of some "unheard of" or "unprecedented" happiness, but at "the eternal repetition, the eternal restoration, of the...

Texts, revisions, history: reading historically in the undergraduate survey.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... We might take it as something of a truism that pedagogical methods do eventually follow the paths of literary scholarship, that what developments we have witnessed in feminist or new historicist pedagogy are driven by scholarly work in those...

Introduction: popular textualities.(popular culture and literary criticism)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... I. This special focus section considers the intriguing interconnections that exist between popular culture and the allied disciplines of textual criticism and bibliographical studies. In particular, it addresses the many ways in which we...

Modernism and the marketplace: the case of Conrad's Chance.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Many early twentieth-century authors now associated with protomodernist or modernist experimentation appeared initially in weekly or monthly journals before proceeding to book form, partly as a matter of economic necessity, partly to ensure a...

The bushranger's voice: Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) and Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter (1879).(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... When the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne on 11 November 1880 a baffling and frustrating reign of outlaw terror, as the authorities saw it, finally came to an end. Together with his gang, Kelly had stolen horses, robbed...

Literary text, cinematic "edition": adaptation, textual authority, and the filming of Tropic of Cancer.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Challenging the nearly half century's worth of scholarship on film adaptation, Thomas Leitch provocatively declares that since George Bluestone wrote his pioneering Novels into Film most critics have "practiced in a theoretical vacuum" (2003,...

Authorship and the Beatles.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... If the artist could explain in words what he has made, he would not have had to create it. (Alfred Stieglitz) It's hard to describe, even with the clarity of memory, the moment the apple falls. The thing will start moving along...

In our own image: three new approaches to canonical American literature.(Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe)(White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism)(Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Jordan-Lake, Joy. 2005. Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. xxvi + 204 pp. $27.95 Barrish, Philip. 2005. White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy,...

The post-feminist Mystique.(Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction)(Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors)(Action Chicks: New Images of Women in Popular Culture)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Feriss, Suzanna, and Mallory Young, eds. 2005. Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Routledge. $100.00 hc. $28.95 sc. 288 pp. Early, Frances, and Kathleen Kennedy, eds. 2003. Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Syracuse...

How to Read a Poem.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Eagleton, Terry. 2006. How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. 192pp. Terry Eagleton's How to Read a Poem is a "how-to" book with an agenda. Smart, witty, and provocative, How to Read a Poem argues that...

Shakespeare and Modernism.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... DiPietro, Cary. 2006. Shakespeare and Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $85.00 hc. 234 pp. Intended for scholars of Shakespeare, Modernism, and Performance studies, Cary DiPietro's Shakespeare and Modernism is an...

Books received: January 16, 2007 to April 15, 2007.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2007... Beaty, Bart. 2007. Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. $65.00 hc. $29.95 sc. ix + 303 pp. Beck, Deborah. 2005. Homeric Conversation. Cambridge: Harvard University...