College Literature articles from September 2004

College Literature archives from September 2004

Introduction: whither Shakespop? Taking stock of Shakespeare in popular culture.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... I saw my first Hamlet when I was about eight. It was a musical adaptation, set to Bizet's Carmen. To emphasize the indecisive nature of Hamlet, Gilligan was cast in the title role. Mr. and Mrs. Howell played Claudius and Gertrude, Ginger was...

Crossover dreams: reflections on Shakespeareans and popular culture.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... When I was first asked to contribute a paper to a session on "Shakespeare and the Culture of Rock and Roll" for the March 1998 meetings of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), I hesitated because I knew that being on this panel would...

The Bard of Enron: from Shakespace to noir humanism.
September 22, 2004... "What's wonderful about Shakespeare is how universal his themes and stories are, how much they apply to so many situations." Our Inspirational Bard of Directors The above bland epigraph might well be written or uttered in any...

The propaganda imperative: challenging mass media representations in McKellen's Richard III.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... "It's very exciting. It's very funny. It's very sexy. It's very violent. The audience I know will love it." (Ian McKellen, interview, www.r3.org/mckellen/fil/mckella.htm/.) Forty years after Laurence Olivier's touchstone film...

Shakespeare, soccer, and spin-doctors: staging a contemporary Henry V; Henry V at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK, November 2002.
September 22, 2004... Henry V and the History Plays It is often claimed that a play like Henry V (1599) can only be understood within Shakespeare's War of the Roses cycle. For this reason, Shakespeare's history plays are perhaps the most problematic works in...

Not just condensation: how comic books interpret Shakespeare.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Today comic books bridge what once seemed to the educational world a chasm between low and high culture. Like stage and screen productions, comic book versions of Shakespeare can be appreciated on different levels by different audiences: by...

"No more yielding than a dream": the construction of Shakespeare in The Sandman.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Shakespeare the man holds a uniquely ambiguous position in American culture. Like a few other authors (Jane Austen springs to mind), Shakespeare's works continue to be available for use by popular culture and especially popular media. Snippets...

Hamlet, synecdoche and history: teaching the tropes of "new remembrance".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... This essay is occasioned by some reflection on the recent reduction of the number of faculty positions in my department devoted to pre-nineteenth century British literature from six to four. (1) The reasons for this reduction are not strictly...

"Hamlet, Part Eight, The Revenge" or, sampling Shakespeare in a postmodern world.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... In The Great Hamlets, an educational video of interviews with famous actors and directors of Hamlet, made in 1985 and released by Films for the Humanities in 1996, the narrator, Trevor Nunn, has the following exchange with Laurence Olivier: ...

Hamlet 9/11: sound, noise, and fury in Almereyda's Hamlet.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Almereyda gives us a Hamlet, which despite its brevity--a mere 111 minutes; two hours shorter than Branagh's all-lines-included version of the play--feels complete: Stephanie Zacharek claims that "it's the picture's visuals--its mournful,...

Academic labor and the reflexive turn in literature and cultural studies.(Beyond the Corporate University: Culture and Pedagogy in the New Millennium)(The Institution of Literature)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Giroux, Henry A. and Kostas Myrsiades, eds. 2001. Beyond the Corporate University: Culture and Pedagogy in the New Millennium. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. viii + 360 pp. $72.00 hc. $26.95 sc. Williams, Jeffrey J., ed. 2002. The...

Beyond the romance of multiculturalism: radicalizing difference and community in cultural studies.(Against the Romance of Community)(Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference)(Signs of Struggle: The Rhetorical Politics of Cultural Difference)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Miranda Joseph. 2002. Against the Romance of Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $18.95 sc. xxxvi + 231 pp. E. San Juan, Jr. 2002. Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of...

Revolutionaries without a revolution: the case of Julia Kristeva.(Mourning Revolution. Special issue of Parallax 9.2, April-June 2003)(The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Hirtler, Kurt, Ola Stahl, and Ika Willis, eds. 2003. Mourning Revolution. Special issue of Parallax 9.2, April-June 2003. New York: Routledge. $100 electronic copy. 113 pp. Kristeva, Julia. 2000. The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The...

Folklore and creolization in United States literature.(Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature)(Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Beardslee, Karen E. 2001. Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. $27.00 hc. xxiv + 202 pp. Cartwright,...

Books received: April 16, 2004 to July 15, 2004.(Appendix)
September 22, 2004... Adams, David. 2004. Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $45.00 hc. $19.95 sc. xi + 249 pp. Ai, Maeda, ed. 2004. Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. Intro. James A....