College Literature articles from March 2001

College Literature archives from March 2001

Cultural Politics, Postmodernism, and White Guys: Affect in Gravity's Rainbow.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... You must become your father, but a paler, weaker version of him. (Barthelme 1975, 179) Published in 1973 and steeped in the politics of altered states and alternative consciousness, Gravity's Rainbow foregrounds the political question...

Violence Incorporated: John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and the Uses of Gratuitous Violence in Popular Narrative [1].(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... The current public discussion of media violence is shaped by two fundamental assumptions. One supposes that representations of violence reflect the steadily rising level of violence in society, while the other assumes that representations...

Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: Punk Merchandise? In the early 90s, a line of tee shirts emerged in both independently owned and chain record stores. The shirts claimed, on their fronts, "This is not a Fugazi T-shirt." The producer of the tee shirts assumed...

Teaching Medieval Women: An Introduction.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... The following articles form a unit on teaching medieval women. They have a varied audience, written for those who have a primary interest in the topic as well as for those who teach medieval literature as part of introductory and survey courses...

The F-Word as "Fashion": Gendering the Sophomore Survey.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... During the 1997 NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers on "The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women" that I directed at Rice University, those of us who had attempted in the past to change the canon, that is, to include medieval or early...

Canonizing the Canoness: Anthologizing Hrotsvit.
March 22, 2001... For most of us who teach college literature, anthologies are a fact of life; they are convenient, compact, and often less expensive for students than purchasing separate texts. As part of my participation in the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on the...

Digital Hagiography: Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and Medieval Women in Cyberspace.
March 22, 2001... Teaching medieval women to contemporary students requires overcoming the "alterity" of the Middle Ages, that sense of "strangeness" our students often feel when they encounter the extravagances of female mystics or the rigidly circumscribed...

Gender Studies and Medieval Women in German [1].
March 22, 2001... Most students of German Studies are not aware of women's importance to medieval literary culture, nor do they ordinarily expect this topic to be of relevance to contemporary theories of gender. The challenge of this course was thus to present a...

Giving Voice to Women: Teaching Feminist Approaches to the Mystery Plays.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... If women appeared rarely in the medieval theatre this was not because it was thought shameful: rather was this so because of factors that were particular to the theatre of the Middle Ages. In the first place, responsibility for the organization...

.Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: Teaching Through the Sources [1].(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... The tale Chaucer's Man of Law tells regularly presents students with genuine interpretive perplexities. As I teach it in my Chaucer classes and in my "Medieval Women" class (both upper division and/or graduate students), the lengthy tale of...

Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... The only fully portrayed females on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Wife of Bath and the Prioress make a curious pair, which becomes an even more curious trio when we add the wife in the Shipman's Tale, whose sexual economics and position in...

Towards a Dialectic of Identity and Economy in Postcolonial Studies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Hogan, Patrick Colm. 2000. Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. Albany: State University of New York Press. $62.50 hc. $20.95 sc. xix + 353 pp. Lazarus,...

On the Modest Tone of Recent Work in Romantic Studies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Bewell, Alan. 2000. Romanticism and Colonial Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $45.00 hc. xv + 373 pp. Elfenbein, Andrew. 1999. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. New York: Columbia University Press....

Acocella, Joan. 2000. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $20.00 hc. xii + 117 pp.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Joan Acocella intends in Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (an expansion of her 1995 New Yorker essay on Cather scholarship) to separate--or save--Cather's works from the overlaid interpretations of professional academic critics. She...

North, Michael. 1999. Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern. New York: Oxford University Press. $48.75 hc. vii + 269 pp.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Reading 1922 should solidify Michael North's reputation as one of today's most learned, engaging, and insightful students of modernism. The author of studies of Yeats and Pound as well as the groundbreaking work The Dialect of Modernism (1994),...

Cohn, Deborah N. 1999. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. $39.95 hc. $19.95 sc. 236 pp.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Deborah Cohn's book outlines a new geography in Inter-American literature, one which transcends linguistic boundaries between the English and Spanish languages to link the modern literature of the South of the United States with the writers of...