College Literature articles from March 2000

College Literature archives from March 2000

Between Witness and Testimony: Survivor Narratives and the Shoah.
March 22, 2000... The disaster is related to forgetfulness--forgetfulness without memory, the motionless retreat of what has not been treated[dots]To write [ldots] is to be in relation, through words in their absence, with what one cannot remember. (Blanchot...

Surviving Edna: A Reading of the Ending of The Awakening.
March 22, 2000... From its earliest publication, Kate Chopin's The Awakening has provoked controversy but the nature of these discussions has changed dramatically over the course of the century, along with the ideological concerns that have driven them. In...

Socialism-Anxiety: The Princess Casamassima and Its New York Critics.
March 22, 2000... In 1848 The Communist Manifesto began by describing communism as "a spectre haunting Europe," and now 150 years later Aijaz Ahmad describes socialism as "the emancipatory desire of our epoch" (1992, 92). During the historical transition marked...

How Came I Thus? : Adam and Eve In the Mirror of the Other.
March 22, 2000... Milton's Paradise Lost explores origins of many kinds at multiple levels of human experience, including the origin of human psychological development. It is not surprising, then, that modern critics with an interest in psychoanalytic theory...

Neurotic Narrative: Metafiction and Object-Relations Theory.
March 22, 2000... Introduction At a minimal level, all psychoanalytic definitions of narcissism refer to the turning back of the self upon itself. This defining quality of narcissism clearly resonates with the self-reflexive turn of metafictional literature...

The Ambivalence In Kotzwinkle's Beat And Bardo Ties.(William Kotzwinkle)
March 22, 2000... A neglected, then rediscovered, but still under-appreciated American novel is The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle. [1] Its protagonist is Horse Badorties, an aging stoned-out, wild-eyed, unbathed Lower East-Side New York hippie, who wears...

The Manifest Professional: Manifestos and Modernist Legitimation.
March 22, 2000... Writing in 1919, critic Louis Untermeyer reflected that "poetry was enjoying 'boom times'" in the second decade of the century: Poetry magazines were breaking out everywhere. Prizes were blossoming on every bush; anthologies were thicker...

The Plight of A Hero in Achebe s Things Fall Apart [1].
March 22, 2000... Although Things Fall Apart remains the most widely read African novel, the failure of its hero continues to generate haunting questions in the minds of some of its readers, especially among those who seem to identify with the hero's tragedy....

The Forest Track: Working with William Cronons The Trouble with Wilderness.
March 22, 2000... You cannot freely admire a noble landscape, if laborers are digging in the field hard by. Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Nature" O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you. Walt Whitman, from "Song of the...

Selling Modernism.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Kelly, Joseph. 1998. Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon. Austin: University of Texas Press. $39.95 hc. x + 287 pp. Martz, Louis. 1998. Many Gods and Many Voices: The Role of the Prophet in English and American Modernism. Columbia: University...

Keys to the City.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Rotella, Carlo. 1998. October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press. $50.00 hc. $18.95 sc. xii+358. Lehan, Richard. 1998. The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History....

Beyond the Left and the Right.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Parini, Jay. 1997. Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics. NewYork: Columbia University Press. $24.95 hc. xi + 272 pp. Ross, Andrew. 1998. Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Just ice. New York: New York University Press....

Psychoanalysis and the Moth.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Siebers, Tobin. 1998. The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. $32.50 hc.xii + 149 pp. Zizek, Slavoj, ed. 1998. Cogito and the Unconscious. SIC. Vol. 2. Durham:...

Inventing Southern Literature.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Kreyling, Michael. 1998. Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. $62.50 hc. $17.00 sc. xviii + 200pp. For those of us who have studied and worked with Michael Kreyling over the past decade and seen...

From Hegel to Madonna: Toward a General Economy of Commodity Fetishism.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Miklitsch, Robert. From Hegel to Madonna: Toward a General Economy of Commodity Fetishism. State University of New York Press. 1998. $18.95 sc. 224 pages University of California-Santa Barbara Miklitsch offers much to admire in an...

Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Ann Romines. 1997. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. $55.00 hc. $17.95 so. xi + 287 pp. It takes a certain kind of courage for an adult literary scholar to...

Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot & Other Women Novelists.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Marianne L. Navy 1998. Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot & Other Women Novelists. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1994. Reprint. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $17.95 sc. 271 pp. It seems appropriate that...