Papers on Language & Literature articles from January 2002

Papers on Language & Literature archives from January 2002

Elegy Unto Epitaph: Print Culture and Commemorative Practice in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".(Thomas Gray)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... From its inception in classical times, elegy has been a vehicle by which a poet negotiates his own poetic maturation and grapples with the risks and gains attendant upon the acquisition of public voice. In the elegies of Moschus, Bion, Spenser,...

Cullen, Keats, and the Privileged Liar.(Countee Cullen, John Keats)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... It is well known that Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen had great esteem for English Romantic poet John Keats. Cullen's "To Endymion," "To John Keats, Poet" and "For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty" show a love for Keats's poetry and a...

Narrator of "Bartleby": The Christian-Humanist Acquaintance of John Jacob Astor.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Despite half a century of modern criticism, the intriguing constellation of images, actions, and choices in Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" remains inadequately charted, owing largely to the title of the story, which is misleading. What the...

The Devils in the Details: The Role of Evil in the Short Fiction of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and Nathaniel Hawthorne.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) are two writers whose names invariably seem to appear in critical discussion of romantic literature. Given the direct influence on both Gogol and Hawthorne of writers...

Editors' Note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... We wish to thank Professor Allan Burns for taking over the duties of editor of PLL during 2001 while Brian Abel Ragen was on sabbatical. We trust that our readers found that the journal prospered during his leadership and published a wide range...