College Literature articles from March 2006

College Literature archives from March 2006

Muriel Rukeyser goes to war: pragmatism, pluralism, and the politics of ekphrasis.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Muriel Rukeyser is perhaps best known for her long poem sequence "The Book of the Dead," about worker exploitation in an industrial mining project. It is a work that blends proletarian political rhetoric and reportage with high modernist...

Advanced, repressed, and popular: Langston Hughes during the cold war (1).(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... You don't make things popular just because you want them to be simple, but because you want people to understand them. But when people understand things, then they demand more. And so I think the question is, how do you combine the...

Choirs and split voices: female identity construction in Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... In her best-selling pop-psychology book, Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons urges that women "admit to ourselves that inside we are all mean, that inside we are all aggressive. And girlfriends, we are" (2002, 151). (1) Recent books on female...

Tenure and its denial: facing the winter years and beyond.(teacher tenure)
March 22, 2006... There are certain images and details in one's life that we associate with specific events, and usually, by dint of the feelings and sensations linked to these images and events, as Proust has recounted quite beautifully, they can never be...

Introduction: conjoining linguistics and literature.
March 22, 2006... I That there is a "natural" conjunction between literature and linguistics is a truism regularly voiced by scholars in either discipline: after all, both fields deal with the raw material of human communication and expression, language....

Metrical complexity in Christina Rossetti's verse.
March 22, 2006... Introductory Remarks In this paper we present a new theory of metrical verse, and apply it to several poems by Christina Rossetti. Our theory is in the tradition of those approaches to meter, often drawn from linguistics, which treat the...

Cohesion in the novels of Alex La Guma: a dialogic analysis.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... The most recognizable and actualizable interface between literature and linguistics is stylistics. As a literary discipline, stylistics explores meaning in literature by taking advantage of structural significance in linguistics. In other...

Beyond a comparison of two distinct things; or, what students of literature gain from a cognitive linguistic approach to metaphor.
March 22, 2006... It was the third week of class in my 1996-97 two-semester senior seminar on "Linguistics, Literature and Metaphor." The students, English majors whose only linguistics courses up to that point had been grammar and the history of English, had...

Embracing a new creed: lexical patterning and the encoding of ideology.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... I. Introduction Language is the prime means of social interaction, and it carries not only propositional content but also evaluational and judgmental elements of meaning. Political speeches play an important role in a democratic society,...

Reading traumatically and representing the real in collective suffering.(Understanding W.G. Sebald)(Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation)(Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction)(Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... McCulloh, Mark R. 2003. Understanding W.G. Sebald. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 hc. xxiv + 193 pp. Rothberg, Michael. 2000. Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. Minneapolis: University of...

Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post Civil-Rights Era.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Giroux, Henry A. and Susan Searls Giroux. 2004. Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post Civil-Rights Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $35.00 hc. x + 324 pp. The role of higher education in public...

Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane, eds. 2004. Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies. Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. $ 54.95 hc. $22.95 sc. 296 pp....

Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Pacini Hernandez, Deborah, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov, eds. 2004. Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America. Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh...

Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Kranidas, Thomas. 2005. Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. $58.00 hc. xvi + 255 pp. The English "Wars of Truth" were intoxicated with language. The exhilaration of print, with its capacities for a...

The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Kaufman, Janet E. and Anne F. Herzog, eds. with Jan Heller Levi. 2005. The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. $37.50 hc. xli + 670 pp. The resurgence in the last decade of critical attention to...

Books received October 16, 2005 to January 15, 2006.
March 22, 2006... Ackerman, Susan. 2005. When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. Gender, Theory, and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press. 45.00 hc. xvi + 353 pp. Allmendinger, Blake. 2005. Imagining the...