Papers on Language & Literature articles from January 2000

Papers on Language & Literature archives from January 2000

The Love Song of Satin-Legs Smith: Gwendolyn Brooks Revisits Prufrock's Hell.
January 1, 2000... Gwendolyn Brooks's poem "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith" (1944) alludes unobtrusively throughout to T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which in turn refers both explicitly and implicitly to Dante's Inferno (1321)....

Crisis and Recovery: The Wordsworthian Poetics and Politics.
January 1, 2000... Between late 1795 and late 1796, Wordsworth was known to have suffered a sudden and deep depression. Recollecting the ferocious onslaught of that debilitating experience years later in the song of his life, Wordsworth himself would hauntingly...

Robert Stone's Opium of the People: Religious Ambivalence in Damascus Gate.
January 1, 2000... That Robert Stone has written another novel, Damascus Gate, with a central figure resembling those drugged and detached men of his earlier work leads us to ponder why he repeatedly so situates his readers in relation to his stories. Christopher...

Rewriting the Self Against the National Text: Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden.
January 1, 2000... Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-therefore the Lord God sent him out from the...

Freud and the Psychology of Neurosis: John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect.
January 1, 2000... John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect, which was written in 1979 and premiered at the Goodman Theater in Chicago on 1 March of that year, is primarily concerned with exploring how individuals in contemporary society attempt to connect with each other...

Notes on Contributors.
January 1, 2000... Robert S. Fredrickson has published another essay on Stone in PLL, "Robert Stone's Decadent Leftists," (Summer 1996). He has published essays on Whitman, John Gardner, and Joyce Cary, as well as a book Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, a nineteenth-...

PLL in Cyberspace.
January 1, 2000... PLL may now be reached via the World Wide Web at http://www.siue.edu/PLL. Our Web pages contain information about the journal as well as links to literature-related resources on the Web. Further developments, such as a searchable index and...

Electronic Availability.
January 1, 2000... Papers on Language & Literature is indexed in Humanities Index, published in print and electronic form by the H. W. Wilson Company. The full text of Papers on Language & Literature is electronically available on H. W. Wilson's Humanities...