Papers on Language & Literature articles from January 2006

Papers on Language & Literature archives from January 2006

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom": alternative economies of excess in Blake's continental prophecies.(William Blake)
January 1, 2006... The immense social and political turmoil accompanying the French Revolution prompted William Blake to reactivate a religious and political tradition, antinomian religious dissent, that had been actively repressed in British history. Blake's...

"How I want thee, humorous Hogart": the motif of the absent artist in Swift, fielding and others.(Jonathan Swift, William Hogarth)
January 1, 2006... A familiar element in eighteenth-century writing, the motif of the absent artist seems to have escaped discussion, although it was widely employed, especially in the novel. In essence, it takes the form of a sudden appeal for the aid of a...

"As soon as I sober up I start again": alcohol and the will in Jean Rhys's pre-war novels.
January 1, 2006... Jean Rhys's pre-war novels, Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931), Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Good Morning, Midnight (1938), thematize alcohol dependency and relate it to the questions of female agency and female desire with...

The tragedy of Imelda's terminal silence in William Trevor's Fools of Fortune.
January 1, 2006... The concluding terse scene of William Trevor's Big House (1) novel, Fools of Fortune (1983), portrays the return of Willie Quinn to the remnants of his ancestral home Kilneagh in County Cork, Ireland, burnt by British Black and Tan soldiers...

"He used to wear a veil": pursuing the other in Algernon Blackwood's "the listener".(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Perchance first enjoyed around flickering campfires in the preliterate times of the oral tradition, tales of mysterious doubles have thrilled and enthralled since the beginnings of storytelling, for they seek, through means subtle or overt, to...