College Literature articles from June 2008

College Literature archives from June 2008

Tragic lives: on the incompatibility of law and ethics.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Patrick Colm Hogan Tragic Lives: On the Incompatibility of Law and Ethics A common view, shared by legal theorists and ordinary people, is that there is and should be a close, positive relation between ethics and law, that law should, and...

Trial separations: divorce, disestablishment, and home rule in Phineas Redux.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Cathrine O. Frank Trial Separations: Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule in Phineas Redux Phineas Redux (1874), the fourth of Anthony Trollope's "political" novels, depicts several unions between parties who remain formally tied to...

Doctors, detectives, and the professional ideal: the trial of Thomas Neill Cream and the mastery of Sherlock Holmes.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Paula J. Reiter Doctors, Detectives, and the Professional Ideal": The Trial of Thomas Neill Cream and Home Rule in Phineas Redux The 1892 trial of serial killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream put both Cream and the professionals involved in the...

A "complex, multiform creature" no more: governmentality Getting Wilde.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Lesley J. Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps A "Complex, Multiform Creature" No More: Governmentality Getting Wilde This paper investigates the trials of Oscar Wilde from two converging perspectives: their individualizing effects on Wilde,...

The common law illusion: literary justice in Coleridge's on the Constitution of the Church and State.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Mark L. Barr The Common Law Illusion: Literary Justice in Coleridge's On the Constitution of the Church and State This paper traces Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with issues of legal interpretation late in his career and most...

Law of the intangible: desegregation, diversity, and the individual.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Theron Britt 142 Law of the Intangible: Desegregation, Diversity and the Individual This essay examines two related U.S. Supreme Court eases concerning school desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and Parents...

Grand juries, legal machines, and the common man jury.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Linda S. Myrsiades Grand Juries, Legal Machines, and the Common Man Jury This paper focuses on the concept of a jury of one's neighbors, that is, the common man jury. It traces this construction through two eighteenth-century trails (the...

Geography and English identity in the Middle Ages.('Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature' and 'Angels on the Age of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534')(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Michelet, Fabienne. 2006. Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $99.00 he. xiv + 297 pp. Lavezzo, Kathy, 2006. Angels on the Age of the World:...

Sara Ahmed. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke UP, 2006. $74.95 hc. $21.95 sc. ix + 240pp.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... In her book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), Sara Ahmed offers a thorough and at times playful analysis of what it means to be oriented--oriented toward objects, ideas, cultures, and sexes. Though certainly not an...

Muldoon, Paul. 2006. The End of the Poem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30.00 hc. $17.00 sc. 406 pp.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... At about the midpoint of The End of the Poem. Paul Muldoon cites the opinion of Octavio Paz: "In theory, only poets should translate poetry; in practice, poets are rarely good translators. They almost invariably use the foreign poem as a point...

William Blake's Poetry A Reader's Guide.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Roberts, Jonathan. 2007. William Blake's Poetry A Reader's Guide. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. $75.00 hc. $14.95 sc. xii + 124 pp. The strengths of Jonathan Roberts's William Blake's Poetry largely depend upon the...

Kofman, Sarah. 2007. Selected Writings. Ed.Thomas Albrecht. Stanford: Stanford University Press.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The range and variety of Sarah Kofman's thought are suggested by the five-part division in Thomas Albrecht's excellent new edition of the Selected Writings: papers on Freud, on Nietzsche, on women in philosophy, on painting, and on Judaism and...

Notice of erratum.(Correction notice)
June 22, 2008... In College Literature 35.1 (Winter 2008): 198-208 Andy Doolen's name was misspelled as Andy Doolan.

Books received January 16, 2008 to April 15, 2008.(Appendix)
June 22, 2008... Ahl, Frederick, ed. and trans. 2008. Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrennus and Seneca's Oedipus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $55.00 he. $16 sc. 280 pp. Appiah. Peggy, Kwame Appiah, and Ivor Agyeman-Duah. 2008. Bu Me Be:...