Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 1998

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 1998

Goldsmith on Burke and Gray. (Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Thomas Gray)
June 22, 1998... In recent years the fate of poetry in the decades after the deaths of Swift and Pope has received much attention. Rather than follow earlier scholarship in reading mid-eighteenth-century poetry in literary-historical terms, reading it, in other...

Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's cashier: a contextual comparison.
June 22, 1998... Tom Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, a defining work of "plastic theatre," written and first produced in 1944, has a distant relative, namely, the Cashier in Georg Kaiser's Von morgens bis mitternachts, a defining work of...

'Don Juan,' "a problem, like all things." (Lord George Gordon Byron)
June 22, 1998... From its first printing in 1819 till now--nearly two centuries later--readers have disputed the big ideas and real values of Don Juan. Its problematical genius appears to resist all ideological interpretations and themes. Scanning its ottava...

'Wieland,' 'Othello,' 'Genesis,' and the floating city: the sources of Charles Brockden Brown's 'Wieland.' (William Shakespeare, Charles Bockden Brown)
June 22, 1998... According to Harold Kittel, "Wieland criticism during the past generation has generally taken a psychological or philosophical tack--either bringing Freudian insights to bear on characters' behavior (particularly Clara's) or examining the ways in...

Virginia Woolf.
June 22, 1998... Hermione Lee. Virginia Woolf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 893pp. Cloth $39.95. "My God, how does one write a Biography?" Virginia Woolf wrote to Vita Sackville-West in May of 1938. The question which preoccupied Woolf for a lifetime...

Sounding the Whale: Moby-Dick as Epic Novel.
June 22, 1998... Christopher Sten. Sounding the Whale: Moby-Dick as Epic Novel. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1996. 92 pp. Paper $9.50. Herman Melville died in 1891, and during the centennial year of his death, a number of conferences on his life and work were...

Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays.
June 22, 1998... John Bryant and Robert Milder, editors. Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1997. 419 pp. Cloth $45.00. Herman Melville died in 1891, and during the centennial year of his death, a number of conferences on...

Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint.
June 22, 1998... Douglas Robillard. Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1997. 205 pp. Cloth $32.00. Herman Melville died in 1891, and during the centennial year of his death, a number of conferences on his life...