Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 1994

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 1994

To criticize the critic: George Saintsbury on Goethe. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
March 22, 1994... The appearance of Dorothy Richardson Jones's King of Critics signals renewed interest in the career of George Saintsbury, the Victorian critic whose domination of the literary world extended into the first quarter of the twentieth century.(1)...

Providence and incest reconsidered: Chaucer's poetic judgement of his Man of Law. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
March 22, 1994... 1. The Man of Law in Chauser's Poetic Judgment For many recent writers, Chaucer's poetic relationship to his Man of Law, even in the context of the poet's ironic and dramatic method of exposition, is somewhat unusual: in the...

The cohesion of the Worcester Fragments.
March 22, 1994... "The Worcester Fragments" (hereafter WF) is the name given to 216 long lines on the last four of sixty-six trimmed and separate vellum sheets discovered by the antiquarian Thomas Phillipps, in the binding of an unspecified book at Worcester...

"Lines which circles do contain": circles, the cross, and Donne's dialectic scheme of salvation. (John Donne)
March 22, 1994... The vast importance attached to the figure of the circle in the theological and cosmological constructs of 17th-century writers is by now a critical commonplace.1 In the works of John Donne, the circle assumes the status of controlling...

The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love-Narratives.
March 22, 1994... Insofar as it rests upon the notion of a critical gaze that is stable, exterior, and epistemologically reliable, the institution of the book review must be situated within the realm of the scopic, the voyeuristic. Like the voyeur who "scopes out"...

Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving the Academic World.
March 22, 1994... After a particularly chilly climate for women set in at our academic department last year, several women, in a post-Spielberg dino-fervor, began carrying small plastic replicas of velociraptors in their purses. Convinced that Jurassic Park...

Authority, Church, and Society in George Herbert: Return to the Middle Way.
March 22, 1994... In a recent feature article in The New York Times Book Review Patricia Nelson Limerick laments the "pompous and pedantic tone of the classically academic writer" ("Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Prose," October 31, 1993)....

Milton's House of God: The Invisible and Visible Church.
March 22, 1994... A religious poet if there has ever been one, and an individual whose spiritual faith and moral principles will not be denied, John Milton remains an enigmatic believer - a man who refused finally to align himself with an established religion or...