Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 1993

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 1993

Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word.
June 22, 1993... In Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word, Peter Schwenger has assigned himself a tough row to hoe. His task--to drive a life-affirming ethos from the thought of Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, and especially Jacques...

Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development.
June 22, 1993... Cast by Means of Figures analyzes the development of Melville's ethos as a writer by tracing the evolution of his use of tropes. Short argues that Melville's development emerges dialetically through his experimentation with certain master...

Colonial discourse and William Makepeace Thackeray's 'Irish Sketch Book.'
June 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION: DISCURSIVE ECONOMIES "Some hundred years hence," Thackeray writes in The Irish Sketch Book of 1842, when students want to inform themselves of the history of the present day, and refer to files of Times and Chronicle...

Rochefort's 'History': the poetics of collusion in a colonizing narrative. (Charles de Rochefort, 'Natural and Moral History of the Caribby Islands')
June 22, 1993... A select compilation of bibliographical literature for the West Indies during the period 1650-1795 yields some twenty-six titles of works styling themselves variously as histories, travel accounts, and miscellaneous memoirs from abroad, all...

Mikhail Bakhtin and the social poetics of dialect.
June 22, 1993... I. SOCIAL INTENTIONALITY OF DIALECT POETRY What would happen if we brought dialect writing out of relegation? If we wanted to think past dialect as archaic or local in the sense of pious nostalgia? My account of the way language helps...

Dryden's 'Defence of the epilogue': a reinterpretation. (John Dryden)
June 22, 1993... I Dryden published the two parts of The Conquest of Granada in 1672. The original production, which had taken place the previous year, was an enormous success. But the Epilogue to the second part, in which he appeared to insult his...

Lucius's parents, Theseus and Salvia, in 'The Golden Ass.'
June 22, 1993... Early on in Apuleius's The Golden Ass before Lucius, the non-hero of the first ten books, has changed into an ass, the reader learns from two ignoble citizens of the witching city of Thessalian Hypata that Lucius's parents' names are Theseus...

'Let them sleepe': Donne's personal allusion in 'Holy Sonnet IV.' (John Donne)
June 22, 1993... Editors and commentators have remarked on the biblical authority for the curious, "vivid" composition of place which opens John Donne's fourth Holy Sonnet (fourth in the 1633 first printed edition and in the early Westmoreland manuscript).(1)...