Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 1997

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 1997

Madeline, mermaids, and medusas in "The Eve of St. Agnes."
June 22, 1997... While recent scholarly interest in Keats has focused on gender issues in increasingly complex ways,(1) Keats's ambiguous depiction of Madeline in "The Eve of St. Agnes" has not attracted the attention it deserves. Commenting that Keats's...

That I might hear thee call great Caesar "ass unpolicied."
June 22, 1997... Near the end of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen apostrophizes the deadly asp which she takes to her bosom: "O, couldst thou speak, / That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass / Unpolicied!" (5.2.300-02).(1) Cleopatra...

Unraveling misogyny and forging the new self: mother, lover, and storyteller in 'The Chaneysville Incident.'
June 22, 1997... When David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident appeared in 1981, it received mostly favorable reviews, became a Book-of-the-month Club selection, and won its author a Faulkner/ PEN award. While many critics focus on the novel's treatment of...

"The gallery of memory": the pictorial in 'Jane Eyre.'
June 22, 1997... Jane Eyre describes her first encounter with Rochester as an event of "no moment." Her act of kindness in helping the fallen man to his horse is merely an "active thing," significant only because it provides a welcome change to an otherwise...

"The awe-creating presence of the Deity": some religious sources for Charles Brockden Brown's 'Wieland.'
June 22, 1997... A substantial body of criticism has grown up around Charles Brockden Brown's 1798 metaphysical romance Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale. Yet absent in the abundant interpretations of Wieland is much discussion of Brown's religious...

White trash, low class, and no class at all: perverse portraits of phallic power in Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood.'
June 22, 1997... Renowned for her characterizations of guilt-ridden and often violent "sinners," Flannery O'Connor has carefully painted ambiguous portraits of the poor Southern refuge, generally referred to as low class or as poor "white trash." This common...