College Literature articles from March 2005

College Literature archives from March 2005

What difference has theory made? From Freud to Adam Phillips.
March 22, 2005... "... Language is the central concern of psychoanalysis" (Forrester, The Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis) (1) What is theory, or what has it been, that we should ask what difference it has made? In The Sexual Theories...

Memory and the city: urban renewal and literary memoirs in contemporary Dublin.
March 22, 2005... Catching Up: Ireland in the 1990s and the Rise of Memoir Contemporary Dublin is bursting at the seams. Simultaneously crowded and sprawling, the city tosses up new upscale apartments as fast as the suburbs can absorb more countryside....

Desire on ice: the menace of Albertine's mimicry in La Prisonniere.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... "As for ices... whenever I take one, temples, churches, obelisks, rocks, it is like an illustrated geography-book which I look at first of all and then convert its raspberry or vanilla monuments into coolness in my throat... and I...

Comment peut-on etre Peruvienne?: Francoise de Graffigny, a strategic femme de lettres.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Francoise de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne (1747), a text which had been forgotten for nearly two centuries, has been met with increasing interest in the past two decades. It was published in 1983 in a Garnier-Flammarion edition, (1) and...

Evolutionary biological issues in Edith Wharton's The Children.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... The Children (1928) is in important respects Edith Wharton's most modern work of fiction. This novel delineates a ruptured social fabric, kaleidoscopic shiftings in human loyalties, and bizarrely fragmented familial ties. A story-line focused...

Consumption, addiction, vision, energy: political economies and Utopian visions in the writings of the Beat generation.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... As early as the 1940s, the writers of the Beat generation were starting to articulate views of postwar American society that would only reach full expression in the 1960s counterculture. While they were not so intent on defining a political or...

Receptacle or reversal? Globalization down under in Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life (1874), an Australian novel, can greatly contribute to discussions of post-colonialism, of class conflict, and of the globalization of the English language in the past few centuries. (1) It demonstrates, beyond...

Ethnic identity and imperative patriotism: Arab Americans before and after 9/11.
March 22, 2005... Introduction This article will examine the effects of 9/11 on Arab Americans and other minorities. 9/11 altered nearly all aspects of American life; even the so-called restoration of "the American lifestyle" is a contrived metamorphosis...

Reinventing Ralph Ellison.(Ralph Ellison: The Emergence of Genius)(So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Jackson, Lawrence. 2002. Ralph Ellison: The Emergence of Genius. New York: John Wiley and Sons. $30.00 hc. 444 pp. Warren, Kenneth W. 2003. So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago...

Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Beats: new directions in Beat studies.(Reconstructing the Beats)(Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Skerl, Jennie, ed. 2004. Reconstructing the Beats. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $75.00 hc $24.95 sc. 244 pp. Martinez, Manuel Luis. 2003. Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera....

At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Edward J. Ingebretsen. 2003. At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $40.00 hc. $28.00 sc. xiv + 341 pp. In an interview segment in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, Brian...

The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Williams, Gareth. 2002. The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press. $64.95 hc. $22.95 sc. xii + 375 pp. In 1971, the Argentine critic Eduardo Galeano published Las venas...

Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Conte, Joseph. 2002. Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. $59.95 hc. $24.95 sc. 312 pp. Academics interested in postmodern theory will enjoy Joseph Conte's Design and...

Shifting Ground. Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Costello, Bonnie. 2003. Shifting Ground. Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. $35.00 hc. 240 pp. Ecocriticism's response to our ongoing environmental catastrophe has been the pursuit of two...

Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Kellman, Steven G., ed. 2003. Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $55.00 hc. $19.95 sc. xix+339 pp. Steven Kellman's Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on...

To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Abernathy, Jeff. 2003. To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. Athens: University of Georgia Press. $49.95 hc. $18.95 sc. 225 pp. Whether perceived positively or negatively, cross-racial exchanges characterize American...

Books received October 16, 2004 to January 15, 2005.
March 22, 2005... Acham, Christine. 2004. Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $24.95 hc. xv + 239 pp. Amodio, Mark C. 2004. Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate...