Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 2003

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 2003

House of mirrors: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".
June 22, 2003... "The Fall of the House of Usher" is among those few stories that seem to elicit nearly as many critical interpretations as it has readers. More recent critical appraisals of the story have largely followed two directions: a reappraisal of the...

"The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers": Marvell's portrait of tender conscience.
June 22, 2003... British literature in the mid-seventeenth century often involved an intensive transformation of genres in order to make intelligible the experience of revolution that was unprecedented, unfamiliar, and disorientating. The Civil War disrupted...

Melville's debt to Milton: inverted satanic morphology and rhetoric in The Confidence-Man.
June 22, 2003... On September 7, 1855, a physically ill and professionally frustrated Herman Melville found himself attending a costume picnic where his family, friends, and neighbors assumed fantastic identities and sported exotic costumes. His wife appeared...

Comic maid-servants in Swift and Smollett: the proverbial idiom of Humphry Clinker.
June 22, 2003... The letters written by Win Jenkins in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker (1771) have certainly not gone without scholarly comment. Until now, however, attention seems to have been directed entirely toward linguistic vagaries narrowly conceived...

"Memory believes before knowing remembers": Faulkner, Canetti, and survival.
June 22, 2003... In his Nobel Prize acceptance address, William Faulkner, speaking of the "fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it" ("Address" 723), alluded to the instinctive fear of violence that threatens to reduce human existence to a...