Papers on Language & Literature articles from January 1999

Papers on Language & Literature archives from January 1999

Hanging for Pleasure and Profit: Truth as Necessary Illusion in Bellow's Fiction.
January 1, 1999... In the 1976 Nobel Award speech, the Nobel Committee praised Saul Bellow for his portrayal of "a man... who can never relinquish his faith that the value of life depends on its dignity, not its success, and that the truth must triumph at last"...

The Sacrifice of Isaac in Medieval English Drama.
January 1, 1999... The absence of staged tragedy in the Middle Ages is a commonplace of theatrical history. However, there was no lack in the late medieval period of a vernacular drama that specialized in pain, suffering, and that deeper sort of mental hurt that...

An Aristotelian Reading of the Feminine Voice-as-Revolution in E. M. Forster's A Passage To India.
January 1, 1999... "But the crisis was still to come." --E. M. Forster, A Passage To India A Passage To India is a novel about moments, those both historical and topical, within which the immediate context of an utterance develops meaning and power. As...

Romantic Masculinity in Edgeworth's Ennui and Scott's Marmion: In Itself a Border Story.(Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott)
January 1, 1999... Ireland and Scotland seem curious backdrops for articulation of a new English masculinity in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, with regional authors equally unlikely articulators of that masculinity. Yet the border countries of...

In the Pathless Forest: John Gardner's Literary Project.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Bo G. Ekelund. In the Pathless Forest: John Gardner's Literary Project. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1995. 397pp. Paper $62.50. Reading the two books under review here, one begins to wonder whether they are even about the same...

A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ronald Grant Nutter. A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 236pp. Cloth $47.95. Reading the two books under review here, one begins to wonder whether they are even about the same John...

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 1940s and American Noir of the 1950s.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Robert Polito, ed. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 1940s and American Noir of the 1950s. 2 vols. New York: The Library of America, 1997.892 pp., 990 pp., respectively. Hardcover $35.00 each. "Somebody lets us loose like a toad...