Papers on Language & Literature articles from January 1994

Papers on Language & Literature archives from January 1994

Fred Vincy and the unravelling of 'Middlemarch.' (by George Eliot)
January 1, 1994... The issue of moral judgment is a preoccupation with George Eliot. She wants to be fair to the persons in her fiction, to do right by them in keeping with an attitude often described by readers as sympathy or fellow-feeling. This is why in...

The dream screen in 'The Moviegoer.' (by Walker Percy)
January 1, 1994... It is not often noted, but, the narrative proper of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer (1961), while it offers a very seductive "virtual present," is actually a representing of selected events from an eight-day period that occurred at some point over...

Alien voices, ancient echoes: Bakhtin, dialogism, and Pope's 'Essay on Criticism.' (Mikhail Bakhtin, Alexander Pope)
January 1, 1994... Ajexander Pope's Essay on Criticism, first published in 1711, constituted a young poet's bold first foray into an often-acrimonious critical environment, a "learned world," Pope later wrote, that threatened authors with such a "dangerous fate"...

Medium of exchange: the blue coupe dialogue in 'The Great Gatsby.' (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
January 1, 1994... A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car. (61) Upstairs in the solemn echoing drive she [Myrtle] let four taxi cabs drive away before she...

Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen.
January 1, 1994... Mona Scheuermann. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1993. 288 pp. Cloth $29.00. Mona Scheuermann's aim in Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen is an ambitious one: "to redefine perceptions of how women are seen in the...

Bloody Versicles: The Rhymes of Crime.
January 1, 1994... Jonathan Goodman, Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1993. 244 pp. Paper $18.00. On any given day or evening, television viewers, in great numbers, wait breathlessly to hear about the sordid childhood of the latest rape-murderer on a talk show or...

Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of 'Lie Down in Darkness.'
January 1, 1994... William Styron. Lie Down in Darkness. Introduction by James L. W. West III. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.139 pp. Cloth $17.95. Few American novelists have had so spectacular a debut as William Styron. In 1951, at age twenty-six, Styron published...