Papers on Language & Literature articles from January 2004

Papers on Language & Literature archives from January 2004

Reinventing the world and reinventing the self in Huck Finn.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... When Huck Finn reaches the "freedom" of Jackson's Island he believes he has fulfilled his American destiny by imposing his will upon the world. Indeed, Huck evaluates his situation when he arrives on the island as follows: "But the next day I...

Love's labor's regained: the making of companionate marriages in Frank Norris's The Pit.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Our marriages are only saved from disaster--when they are saved at all--by a readjustment from the fictive romantic basis on to something more stable, but change is usually painful, troublesome, and imperfect, generally leaving...

Stevie Smith: girl, interrupted.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
January 1, 2004... Among the edgy, innovative, and fashionable young poets drawing crowds at popular 1960s poetry festivals was a unique attraction: Stevie Smith, over sixty years old, atonally singing her poetry while wearing clothing suggestive of a...

The princess, persona, and subjective desire: a reading of Oscar Wilde's Salome.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Oscar Wilde began to write Salome still enjoying, but being frustrated by, the critical attention given to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The summer of 1890 had been exhausting for Wilde: Dorian Gray had been published in shorter form,...

Mediterranean travel writing: from Etruscan Places to Under the Tuscan Sun.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... To compare Francis Mayes with D. H Lawrence seems pretty unfair, and I would not inflict the comparison except that I think it reveals something about the way in which western culture has changed for the worse since Lawrence's time, for Mayes's...