Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 1999

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 1999

The Muslim East in Byron's Don Juan.
June 22, 1999... The Eastern affinities which Byron developed while he was in Turkey and Greece, and which colored his Oriental Tales (Rishmawi 48-62), are still felt in his later poetry, particularly in his masterpiece. Yet it should be stated that although...

Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss":.
June 22, 1999... "The Rare Fiddle" as Emblem of the Political and Sexual Alienation of Woman CHANTAL CORNUT-GENTILLE D'ARCY In the final part of To the Lighthouse, Lily Briscoe, the amateur artist, is contemplating her painting and pondering on the...

Wharton's The Buccaneers and Pre-Raphaelitism.
June 22, 1999... Whenever a well-known writer leaves a novel unfinished, it often takes on a life of its own-witness Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood or Stevenson's St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston. Before she died Edith Wharton had written 89,000 words...

Henry Roth's National and Personal Narratives of Captivity.
June 22, 1999... Henry Roth, who died in 1995 at age 89, was the author of Call It Sleep (1934), Shifting Landscape (1987), and a multi-volume novel, Mercy of a Rude Stream, published between 1994 and 1998. Most of the significant questions concerning Roth's...

Ironic Mysticism in Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star.
June 22, 1999... It must always remain an open question whether mystical states may not possibly be superior points of view, windows through which the mind looks out upon a more extensive and inclusive world. -William James, Varieties of Religious...

Notes on Contributors.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1999... CHANTAL CORNUT-GENTILLE D'ARCY, Senior Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, has published widely on British literature, culture and film. She is also co-editor of Culture and Power (1995), Gender Issues (1995), and editor of Culture...

Editors' Note.(Editorial)
June 22, 1999... In gratitude- Recently one of PLL's greatest supporters retired from the English Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Stella Revard's work is known throughout the profession. Her book The War in Heaven remains one of...

PLL in Cyberspace.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1999... PLL may now be reached via the World Wide Web at http://www.siue.edu/PLL. Our Web pages contain information about the journal as well as links to literature-related resources on the Web. Further developments, such as a searchable index and...