College Literature articles from September 2001

College Literature archives from September 2001

Pedagogy of the Depressed: Beyond the New Politics of Cynicism.
September 22, 2001... The trouble with our civilization is that it has stopped questioning itself. No society which forgets the art of asking questions or allows this art to fall into disuse can count on finding answers to the problems that beset it--certainly not...

Milton's "Eco-Eden": Place and Notions of the "Green" in Paradise Lost.
September 22, 2001... poets are... there to help us understand the place, to come to know the earth. Jonathan Bate the nonhuman environment is a dominant character in the worlds both inside and outside the text;... authors themselves subscribe to this belief;...

Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
September 22, 2001... After World War II, the United States Time Corporation was looking for a new product line. It found it in the Timex watch. In a market traditionally dominated by the Swiss, this U.S. company revolutionized the field through a twin combination...

Framing the Gothic: From Pillar to Post-Structuralism.
September 22, 2001... The low throb of a bass guitar pounded from giant speakers from somewhere inside: the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. Mick Jagger's ragged voice growled out the song's familiar refrain as Derek turned off the street onto the long...

Exile Runes.(interpretation of author Edward W. Said)
September 22, 2001... For and in memory of Mohammad AlDura, who was shot by the Israeli army while nestled in his father's arms. Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me." So writes Adrienne Rich in a poem from An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems...

Finding Hope in the Humanities.(The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Study)(What's Happened to the Humanities?)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Berube, Michael. 1997. The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Study. New York: New York University Press. $55.00 hc. $19.50 sc. x + 259 pp. Kernan, Alvin, ed. 1997. What's Happened to the Humanities? Princeton:...

On Teaching Poetry.(The Work of Poetry)(The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry: An Expanded Edition)(The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, Mastery in Five American Poets)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Hollander, John. 1997. The Work of Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press. $17.50 sc. 318 pp. Martin, Robert K. 1998. The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry: An Expanded Edition. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $18.95 sc....

No Exit?(Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies)(Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture)(Shakespeare on Love & Lust)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Berry, Philippa. 1999. Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies. London: Routledge. $24.99 sc. xiv + 197 pp. Burt, Richard. 1998. Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture. New York:...

Chaucer's Pardoner, Chaucer's World, Chaucer's Style: Three Approaches to Medieval Literature.(Chaucer and the Late Medieval World)(Medieval Literature, Style, and Culture)(Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Bisson, Lillian M. 1999. Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. New York: St. Martin's. $18.95 Sc. xii + 294 pp. Muscatine, Charles. 1999. Medieval Literature, Style, and Culture. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $39.95 hc. ix +...

Feminist Discourse and the Resistance of Metanarratives.(Confessional Politics: Women's Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media)(Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction)(Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Gammel, Irene, ed. 1999. Confessional Politics: Women's Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. $24.95 sc. xi + 214 pp. Schuster, Marilyn R. 1999. Passionate...

Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Majer-O'Sickey, Ingeborg and Ingeborg von Zadow, eds. 1998. Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema. SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory. Albany: SUNY Press. $65.50 hc. $21.95 sc. vii + 291 pp. Triangulated Visions:...

Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Murphy, Richard. 1999. Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $57.95 hc. $19.95 sc. 325 pp. One of scholarly criticism's great pleasures is the...

Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Kumar, Amitava, ed. 1999. Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom. New York: St. Martin's Press. $55.00 hc. $18.95 sc. 280 pp. Over the last several years, statements by MLA delegate assembly candidates have made two...

Social Authorship and the Advent of Print.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Ezell, Margaret J.M. 1999. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $38.50 hc. 182 pp. At first glance, Margaret J.M. Ezell's study of persistent manuscript authorship practices at the turn of...