Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 1994

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 1994

Jane Austen's rejection of Rousseau: a novelistic and feminist initiation. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
June 22, 1994... The question of Jane Austen's feminist credentials has long been a puzzling one for critics.(1) The six novels - those "little bits of Ivory" on which she worked "with so fine a Brush" - hardly seem the canvas for revolutionary expression....

Edward Rochester and the margins of masculinity in 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'
June 22, 1994... Though Edward Rochester is neither the central figure of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre nor of Jean Rhys's complement text Wide Sargasso Sea, he nevertheless occupies a crucial position in each text - in Jane Eyre, he is the desired object of...

Style and truth: reflections on the language of science.
June 22, 1994... Possibly the world of external facts is much more fertile and plastic than we have ventured to suppose; it may be that all these cosmologies and many more analyses and classifications are genuine ways of arranging what nature offers to our...

The pursuit of justice: Graham Greene's refiguring of the detective story in 'It's a Battlefield.'
June 22, 1994... Graham Greene remarked towards the end of his life that "in the twenties and thirties I was much interested in the detective story" ("Last Word" viii). These decades are routinely referred to as the golden age of the detective story by the...

Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concept of Character.
June 22, 1994... Imtiaz Habib's Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character loosely relates a genre of Renaissance experimental paintings and drawings known as anamorphoses to Shakespeare's representations of character. Anamorphoses, popular in Europe...