College Literature articles from March 2004

College Literature archives from March 2004

"Raising the stigma": black womanhood and the marked body in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces.
March 22, 2004... In the Preface to her novel, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900), Pauline Hopkins claims that she writes in order to "raise the stigma of degradation from [her] race" (1988, 13). The use of the word...

"I'm not his father": Lionel Trilling, Allen Ginsberg, and the contours of literary modernism.
March 22, 2004... On February 5, 1959, Allen Ginsberg returned to Columbia University. (1) Having recently received literary fame for the publication of Howl and Other Poems, the young poet visited the university that he had attended for several years in the...

Diverting the gaze: the unseen text in women's war writing.
March 22, 2004... In her discussion of the way women "look" at war and interpret that act of looking through language and image, The World Wars through the Female Gaze, Jean Gallagher asserts that "Vision has... played an important role in the development and...

The remembered future: neuro-cognitive identity in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.
March 22, 2004... The concept of selfhood has taken a beating lately through the political critique of so-called "identity" politics, the post-structural obliteration of individuality, and the sociological condemnation of a culture of narcissism. But as much as...

Jerzy Kosinski's being there, novel and film: changes not by chance.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... A Polish-Ruthenian Jew, born in 1933 and looking very much like a Gypsy, managed to survive the Holocaust and eventually succeed as an intriguing yet controversial American writer. Highly intelligent, trained to dissimulate and adapt, he saw...

Horror film and the historical uncanny: the New Germany in Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie.
March 22, 2004... At first glance, Stefan Ruzowitzky's recent horror film Anatomie has nothing more in mind than what its genre usually does--to entertain its audience by administering a few thrills and chills. The film's feisty protagonist is Paula Henning, a...

The structural coherence of Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman.
March 22, 2004... In An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, Bennett and Royle open by posing a number of questions about beginnings: When will we have begun? Where--or when--does a literary text begin? ... Does a text begin as...

Sex isn't everything (but it can be anything): the symbolic function of extremity in modernism.
March 22, 2004... In the era of Sex and the City it is almost impossible to imagine how shocking the sex in modernist fiction used to be. Modernist form may have been difficult, but readers kept returning to Kurtz's "monstrous passions," Molly Bloom's monologue,...

The use and abuse of Shakespeare: a review essay.(Shakespeare After Mass Media)(Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema)(All About Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels)(Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-century Women Novelists and Appropriation)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Burt, Richard, ed. 2002. Shakespeare After Mass Media. New York: Palgrave. $65.00 hc, $24.95 sc. xii + 340 pp. Lehmann, Courtney and Lisa S. Starks, eds, 2002. Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Teaneck: Fairleigh...

William Blake and the Body.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Connolly, Tristanne J. 2002. William Blake and the Body. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $65.00 hc. xvii + 249 pp. Anyone familiar with the works of William Blake, particularly his later epic poetry, must be aware of the centrality of the...

The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Harris, Susan K. 2002. The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $49.95 hc. viii + 192 pp. For decades, feminist scholars have struggled to bring to...

Books received October 16, 2003 to January 15, 2004.(Appendix)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2004... Allen, John. 2003. Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Testimony. Studies in American Popular History and Culture 20. New York: Routledge. $70.00 hc. vii + 195 pp. Astro, Alan, ed. 2003. Yiddish South of the...