Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 2000

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 2000

Rossetti's "Jenny": Aestheticizing the Whore.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... I The most famous aestheticized object of Victorian culture is Robert Browning's Duchess, a woman whose utility as a wife has been elided with the result that all who come upon her transformed condition must disinterestedly regard her as...

Affect and Cognition in Two Theories of the Origin of Language.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Obstacles to interactive discourse between science and the humanities litter the dividing strip that separates the often parallel roads they follow. The primary tool of the scientist, rigorous attention to empirical evidence, is often seen by...

Creating a Feminist-Communitarian Romanticism in Beloved: Toni Morrison's New Uses for Blake, Keats, and Wordsworth.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Despite the large secondary literature on Beloved, critics have still not done full justice to the variety of sources Toni Morrison re-envisions as she reconstitutes her manifold cultural heritage. In particular, she devises fascinating...

Unsolved Mysteries: Agents of Historical Change in John Fowles's A Maggot.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In the prologue to A Maggot (1984), John Fowles specifically defines the aims of the story he is about to tell: "What follows may seem like a historical novel; but it is not. It is a maggot." Locating the origin of the tale in his recurring...

Law's Sentimental Education.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Laura Hanft Korobkin. Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. 247pp. Cloth $49.50; Paper $18.50. For all its vigor, insight, and originality, law and literature...