College Literature articles from September 2000

College Literature archives from September 2000

Writing the Postcolonial: The Example of Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests [1].
September 22, 2000... Although I am committed, through personal experience and conviction, to diversity and multiculturalism in the classroom, I have become increasingly concerned with how these concepts get translated into practice, particularly in the pedagogy of...

Reading Bloom (Or: Lessons Concerning the "Reformation" of the Western Literary Canon).(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... He will observe this rule concerning the canonical Scriptures, that he will prefer those accepted by all catholic Churches to those which some do not accept; among those which are not accepted by all, he should prefer those which are accepted...

Among Good Christian Peoples: Teaching Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose.
September 22, 2000... Introduction In an essay entitled "Teaching Deconstructively," Barbara Johnson provides the following definition of the teaching of literature: Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a...

The Art and Architecture of the Self: Designing the "I"-Witness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... "If, then, design is inevitable, the best art must be that in which it is most organic, most inherent in the soul of the subject." (Wharton 1914, 229-30) Maurice Merleau-Ponty, writing of the ideological force of the gaze in The Visible...

(Re)Interpreting Storyteller in the Classroom: Teaching at the Crossroads.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Changes to the literary canon have led to increased scrutiny of pedagogical practices as well as the instructors who utilize them, but we remain at the crossroads of old and new, familiar and unfamiliar territories. We find ourselves in a new...

The Circle of Learners in a Vicious Circle: Derrida, Foucault, and Feminist Pedagogic Practice.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Have you seen this card, the image on the back... of this card? I stumbled across it yesterday, in the Bodleian (the famous Oxford library), I'll tell you about it. I stopped dead, with a feeling of hallucination... and of revelation at the...

Dickinson Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom.
September 22, 2000... Emily Dickinson's poetry permeates under graduate literature classes; first- year students read her, seniors read her, and most students study her work more than once. [1] As a result of her high level of exposure in the classroom, methods of...

Rebecca as Desdemona: "a maid that paragons description and wild fame".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The common assumption about Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca figures the first Mrs. de Winter as a secretly conniving manipulator who had convinced the world that she was as morally flawless as she was beautiful. According to the second Mrs. de...

American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Harold K. Bush, Jr.1999. American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. $49.95 hc $19.95 sc. xiii + 224 pp. American Declarations shows us one direction American Studies...

Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt. 1999. Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education. New York: Routledge, 1999. $20.00 sc.xiii + 336 pp. It isn't every academic book that comes complete with a page-flip cartoon, but Cary...

Willa Cather: Queering America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marilee Lindemann. 1999. Willa Cather: Queering America. New York: Columbia University Press. $45.00 hc. $16.50 sc. xvi + 185 pp. Recently compiling a large selection of essays on Willa Cather for a critical compendium, I was...

Melville's Anatomies.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Samuel Otter. 1999. Melville's Anatomies. Berkeley: University of California Press. $48.00 hc. $22.50 sc. xii +369 pp. As the title suggests, Melville's Anatomies examines the literary and cultural significance that physical bodies...

The Other Henry James.(Review)
September 22, 2000... John Carlos Rowe. 1998. The Other Henry James. Durham: Duke University Press. $49.95 hc. $17.95 sc. xv + 238 pp. "Viewed in this way," begins the final sentence of John Carlos Rowe's The Other Henry James, "the scholarly revival of...

Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Hayden White. 1999. Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $38.00 hc. xii + 205 pp. Building upon his previous studies Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century...

Jean Rhys.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Sylvie Maurel.1998. Jean Rhys. New York: St. Martin's. $35.00 hc. 200 pp. Over the past four decades, Jean Rhys's novels and short stories have been read in multiple ways from multiple cultural perspectives. Feminist, postcolonial and...

Ventures Into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity.(Review)
September 22, 2000... U.C. Knoepflmacher. 1998. Ventures Into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $35.00 hc. xxi + 444 pp. U.C. Knoepflmacher's long-awaited and big new book packs a wallop: a lavishly...

Authoring A Life: A Woman's Survival In and Through Literary Studies.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Brenda Daly. 1 998. Authoring A Life: A Woman's Survival In and Through Literary Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press. $59.50 hc.$19.95 sc. xiii + 268 pp. The provocative title of an article Brenda Daly wrote in...