Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 2008

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 2008

Text as image in Kipling's Just So Stories.(Rudyard Kipling)(Report)
June 22, 2008... "How the First Letter was Written" and "How the Alphabet was Made" seem like anomalies in Kipling's Just So Stories. The quintessential Just So Story, it is easy to think, concerns the acquisition of a distinctive physical trait by some...

"Like a lady of a far Countree": Coleridge's "Christabel" and fear of invasion.(Report)
June 22, 2008... The danger, either real or apparent, may suddenly burst upon an unprotected part of this island. --Havilland Le Mesurier, Thoughts on a French Invasion (1798) "ONCE A JACOBIN, AND ALWAYS A JACOBIN" is a recurring phrase in a...

Arnold's Coleridgean conversation poem: "Dover Beach" and "The Eolian Harp".(Matthew Arnold)(Report)
June 22, 2008... Poetry is made out of other poems.--Northrop Frye Let us give up the failed enterprise of seeking to "understand" any single poem as an entity in itself.--Harold Bloom The more complete and concrete our knowledge of an...

Beyond the romantic gypsy: narrative disruptions and ironies in Austen's Emma.(Jane Austen)(Report)
June 22, 2008... I was stolen by the gypsies. My parents stole me right back. Then the gypsies stole me again. This went on for a long time. --Charles Simic, "I Was Stolen by the Gypsies" As this epigraph from Simic suggests, stories about...

Reading becomes electric: the Amazon Kindle.(Product/service evaluation)
June 22, 2008... The Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Amazon.com. $399. When I bought my first cell phone, it flipped open just like a communicator on the original Star Trek. I admit to feeling a bit like Captain Kirk the first few times I answered a...