College Literature articles from September 2005

College Literature archives from September 2005

Lumiansky's paradox: ethics, aesthetics and Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale".(R.M. Lumiansky)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... Now, for the first time, twentieth-century readers can have The Canterbury Tales in their own modern, idiomatic language, unembarrassed by archaic expressions or by attempts to torture the free and easy rhythms of the original into rhyme and...

The heavy garments of the past: Mary and Frieda Antin in The Promised Land.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. And I have thought of a charm that should release me from the folds of my clinging past. I take the hint from the Ancient...

The dream life of Ms. Dog: Anne Sexton's revolutionary use of pop culture.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... Words in a poem, sounds in movement, rhythm in space, attempt to recapture personal meaning in personal time and space from out of the sights and sounds of a depersonalised, dehumanised world. They are bridgeheads into alien...

Eloquence and Invisible Man.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... 1. "It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing"--or so Emerson opens his essay "Eloquence," included in the 1870 volume Society and Solitude. As Emerson describes it near the end of his career as an...

Shakespeare after Columbine: teen violence in Tim Blake Nelson's "O".
September 22, 2005... Although filming had been completed nearly two years earlier, Tim Blake Nelson's teen adaptation of Othello would not be released in theaters until late August of 2001. On the morning of April 20, 1999, while the film was less than two weeks...

The Great Gatsby and the obscene word.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... I. In a novel in which language is consistently seen to work against the demands of veracity, at least one formulation in The Great Gatsby rings true: Nick Carraway's pronouncement, near the start of the novel, that "Gatsby turned out all...

Utopian yearnings, dystopian thoughts: Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles and the problem of scientific communitarianism.(Michel Houellebecq)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... In a 1999 interview, French novelist Michel Houellebecq outlines a decidedly teleological view of history: "... deep down, I am with the utopians, people who think that the movement of History must conclude in an absence of movement. An end to...

To be loved: Amy Denver and human need--bridges to understanding in Toni Morrison's Beloved.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... I will call them my people, which are not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people," there they shall be called ...

Understanding teaching and interpretation in literature and composition-rhetoric.(Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons)(Critical Intellectuals on Writing)(Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides)(Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... McDonald, Christina Russell, and Robert L. McDonald, eds. 2002. Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. $25.00 sc. xv + 301 pp. Olson, Gary A., and Lynn Worsham, eds. 2003. Critical...

Critical studies in a post-theoretical age: three books sort of about Wallace Stevens.(Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing)(Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U. S. Poetics)(Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Motions of Poetic Language)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Eckhout, Bart. 2002. Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. $49.95 hc. xi + 303 pp. Harrington, Joseph. 2002. Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U. S....

The "critical" work of edited collections: re-viewing the texts of Willa Cather and Edith Wharton.(Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination)(Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth": A Casebook)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Rosowski, Susan J., ed. 2003. Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination. Cather Studies. Vol. 5. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $35.00 sc. xiv + 327 pp. Singley, Carol J., ed. 2003. Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth": A Casebook....

Then and now: reading the texts of race.(The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism)(Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference)(Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Edwards, Brent Hayes. 2003. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press. $55.00 hc. $24.95 sc. 397 pp. Kosek, Jake, Donald S. Moore, and Anand...

Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Youngquist, Paul. 2003. Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism. Minneapolis: university of minnesota press. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. xxxi + 224 pp. "The monstrosities of Romanticism," writes Paul Youngquist in his introduction to...

Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Halle, Randall and Margaret McCarthy, eds. 2003. Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. $49.95 hc. $29.95 sc. xxvi + 442 pages. German popular cinema is a wide field, covering a history...

What Is World Literature?(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Damrosch, David. 2003. What Is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton University Press. $65.00 hc. $22.95 sc. xiii + 324 pp. The large umbrella category in the title of David Damrosch's What Is World Literature? permits its author to...

Books received: April 16, 2005 to July 15, 2005.
September 22, 2005... Armitt, Lucie. 2005. Fantasy Fiction: An Introduction. Continuum Studies in Literary Genre. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. $65.00 hc. $14.95 sc. ix + 229 pp. Attridge, Derek. 2004. Peculiar Language: Literature as...