College Literature articles from March 2008

College Literature archives from March 2008

Meals and mourning in Woolf's The Waves.(Essays)(Virginia Woolf )(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... In a first draft of The Waves, Virginia Woolf has the character Susan think: There was pheasant for luncheon? And she felt her teeth meet in the rather solid wing of a pheasant; & her tongue roll its fibres; & then the delicious...

Jean Rhys's postmodern narrative authority: Selina's patois in "Let Them Call It Jazz".(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... "In the train that evening I think myself lucky, for to walk about London on a Sunday with nowhere to go--that take the heart out of you," says Selina Davis, the narrator of Jean Rhys's 1962 short story, "Let Them Call It Jazz," as she heads to...

"The real white man is waiting for me": ideology & morality in Bessie Head's A Question of Power.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Replacing value with authority, choice with drive, psychoanalysis offers an Ersatz, a substitute, for morality--the concept of normality.... The descriptive schema is proposed as a law; and most assuredly a mechanistic psychology...

Disavowal, defence and voyeurism in the narration of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... A person, scattered in space and time, is no longer a woman, but a series of events on which we can throw no light, a series of insoluble problems. (Proust 1983, 99-100) The eye and the gaze--this is for us the split in which the...

"Beyond my outrage or my admiration": postnational critique in Robert Pinsky's An Explanation of America.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Robert Pinsky has devoted his career to promoting the idea of poetry as a social presence. His writings concern themselves with the place of poetry in American life. They include not only poetry volumes--Sadness and Happiness (1975), An...

Swearing at--not by--history: obscenity, picong and irony in Derek Walcott's poetry.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... There are occasions when blasphemy must be seen as one privilege of the excluded Caliban. (Lamming 1984, 9) Rarely does a critic of Derek Walcott's poetry fail to mention his excellent command of the English language. John Figueroa,...

"A little yellow bastard boy": paternal rejection, filial insistence, and the triumph of African American cultural aesthetics in Langston Hughes's "Mulatto".(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... On March 3, 1927, Langston Hughes, responding to an invitation from the Walt Whitman Foundation, addressed a small gathering at the poet's final residence on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey. In his talk, he credited Whitman as an ancestor....

The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things Fall Apart.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The District Commissioner changed instantaneously. The resolute administrator in him gave way to the student of primitive customs.... As he walked back to the court he thought about [the book he planned to write]. Every day brought him some new...

Shakespeare: philosopher, scientist, ecologist.(Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare, Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England, Shakespeare the Thinker)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The emotions are greatly alterative with respect to the body. Therefore, through them the imagination is able to transform the body. (Dr. Thomas Fienus, early modern physician, qtd. in Floyd- Wilson and Sullivan 2007, 177) ...

Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Foys, Martin K. 2007. Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $59.95 hc. xiv + 276 pp. In this important and indeed ground-breaking book,...

Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Shohat, Ella. 2006. Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices. Durham: Duke University Press. $84.95 hc. $23.95 sc. 409pp. Ella Shohat is an Israeli Mizrahi Jew of Iraqi background who teaches film and cultural studies at New York University, and is...

Books received: October 16, 2007 to January 15, 2008.(Appendix)
March 22, 2008... Akers, Deborah, and Abubaker Bagader, eds. and trans. 2007. Oranges in the Sun: Stories from the Arabian Gulf. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. $49.95 hc. $17.95 sc. xii + 239 pp. Andermahr, Sonya, ed. 2007. Jeannette Winterson: A...