College Literature articles from March 2002

College Literature archives from March 2002

Truth and fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The requirement of truth as a faithful portrayal of unique experience is the standard most consistently applied to the literature of the Vietnam War. In his discussion of memoirs of the war, J. T. Hansen observes that all the writers he studied...

"O my brothers": reading the anti-ethics of the pseudo-family in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... As novels are about the ways in which human beings behave, they tend to imply a judgment of behavior, which means that the novel is what the symphony or painting or sculpture is not--namely, a form steeped in morality. Anthony Burgess ...

Ana Castillo's So Far From God: intimations of the absurd.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... One of few Chicana writers to be published by a New York publishing firm, Ana Castillo soon became popular in academic circles as a feminist whose poetry challenges the culture-based, stereotypic perceptions of Chicanas, perceptions held by the...

The return of Damon and Pythias: Alan Dale's A Marriage Below Zero, Victorian melodrama, and the emergence of a literature of homosexual representation.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Those who have lived before such terms as "high-brow fiction". "thrillers" and "detective fiction" were invented realize that melodrama is perennial and that the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied. T. S. Eliot, The Moonstone...

Wife and window in Arcadia: re-envisioning the ideal.(Philip Sidney's 'New Arcadia')(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... In February of 1608, Margaret Ferne-seede, the window of a London tailor, was executed at Saint George's field for the murder of her husband. It was reported that Margaret, upon hearing of his death, demanded to be brought to the scene of the...

The site of domestic violence and the altar of phallic sacrifice in Gus Lee's China Boy.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... In 1991, Gus Lee made his brilliant literary debut with China Boy, a semi-autobiographical novel depicting the little boy Kai Ting's turbulent childhood and rites of passage in a black San Francisco slum in the 1950s. He followed his widely...

Close(d) readings of Shakespeare: re-covering self-reflexivity in the classroom.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Though poststructuralist discourse still revels in its Verbal Iconoclasm with postWimsatt whimsy, the New Critical legacy of close reading is still part of the liturgy of literature classrooms across the country. For good reason many would say;...

Is there an "implied" author in every film?(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Since this is only the second time I've ever tried to do film criticism, I decided that I must read up on it. And as I read painstakingly, page by page, through all seven hundred and thirty books on my library's list, I was a bit discouraged to...

Mothers of the Twentieth Century.('Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925,' 'The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth--Century Women's Autobiographies' and 'Mothers and Daughters in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Anthology')(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Irving, Katrina. 2000. Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. $29.95hc. ix+148. Malin, Jo. 2000. The Voice of the Mother: Em bedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth--Century...

The poetic is the political.('The power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered' and 'Cold War Poetry')(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Shulman, Robert. 2000. The power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. $49.95 hc. $19.95 sc. 340 pp. Brunner. Edward. 2001. Cold War Poetry. University of Illionis Press....

Changing conversations, shifting paradigms: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American women's literary scholarship in the twenty-first century.('Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon,' 'Birthing A Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature' and 'Plots and Proposals: American Women Fiction, 1850-90')(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Kilcup, Karen L., and Thomas S. Edwards, eds. 1999. Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $49.95 hc. x + 294 pp. Rosowski, Susan J. 1999. Birthing A Nation: Gender, Creativity, and...

Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Schneider, Richard J., ed. Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2000. $39.95 hc. $19.95 sc. x + 310 pp. The best of ecocriticism incorporates the rubrics of race, class,...

The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Duvall, John N. 2000. The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness. New York: Palgrave. $49.00 hc. 182 pp. John Duvall's ambitious The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist...

Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Thomas, Calvin. ed. 2000. Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. $49.95 hc. $18.95 sc. 290 pp. Calvin Thomas's Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of...

The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Morrisson, Mark S. 2001. The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $50.00 hc. $19.95 sc. xiv + 279 pp. In The Public Face of Modernism, Mark Morrisson...

Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Brinkmeyer. Jr., Robert H. 2000. Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West. Athens: University of Georgia Press. xvii + 130 pp. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.'s most recent publication, Remapping Southern...

African Novels in the Classroom. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Hay, Margaret Jean, ed. African Novels in the Classroom. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2000. $55.00 hc. $29.95 sc. iv + 314 pp. African Novels in the Classroom, edited by Margaret Jean Hay. is an important addition to the existing...