Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2000

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2000

"Lawfull Charms" and "Wars of Truth": Voice and Power in Writings by John Milton and George Wither.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... David Loewenstein and James Grantham Turner have called attention to the relationship between poetics and politics in Milton's prose and poetry and to the implications of this relationship for various discursive fields in the seventeenth...

Ernest Hemingway and World War I: Combatting Recent Psychobiographical Reassessments, Restoring the War.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... "Napoleon taught Stendahl how to write." -Ernest Hemingway To ask whether or not the First World War had a profound effect upon Ernest Hemingway would, not so long ago, have been considered a rhetorical question. It can no longer be...

Puzzling Stories.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Sutherland, John. Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1996. x + 258 pp. $7.98. --. Can Jane Eyre be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction. Oxford and New York: Oxford...

Notes on Contributors.
March 22, 2000... ROBERT J. ANDREACH, an NYU Ph.D. and a former university professor, is the author of Studies in Structure, The Slain and Resurrected God, Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre, and numerous articles in scholarly journals. ...

EDITOR'S NOTE.(retirement of Papers on Language & Literature business manager, Jean Vassier)
March 22, 2000... This January saw the retirement of Jean Vassier, who had served as PLL's business manager for many years. During 37 years at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, she had held a number of positions, but she devoted herself to PLL,...

PLL in Cyberspace.(Papers on Languages & Literature)
March 22, 2000... 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...

FORTHCOMING IN PLL.
March 22, 2000... MARTIN BIDNEY, "Creating a Feminist-Communitarian Romanticism in Beloved: Toni Morrison's New Uses for Blake, Keats, and Wordsworth" JEFF ROESSNER, "Unsolved Mysteries: Agents of Historical Change in John Fowles's A Maggot" DANIEL...

Overmyer's Amphitryon: Adapting Kleist for a Contemporary Audience.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... In the published text of his Amphitryon, Eric Overmyer expresses his gratitude to Brian Kulick and David Esbjornson for asking him to adapt Kleist's Amphitryon for New York's Classic Stage Company. Esbjornson is the company's artistic director,...

Dickens's Literary Architecture: Patterns of Ideas and Imagery in Hard Times.
March 22, 2000... Until the middle of this century the predominant critical view of Dickens was of a writer who, whatever his positive attributes, had only a rudimentary sense of form and structure. George Orwell in 1939 described the novels as "all fragments,...

Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gene Stratton-Porter's "Freckles."(early 20th-century best-seller)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... It has become fashionable to hold that "cultural work of [a] fundamental kind was often done by exactly those popular forms that . . . have seemed the weakest of 19th-century [American] cultural life" (Fisher 5). This "redefinition of...