Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2004

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2004

Twin stars: the anxiety of sibling rivalry between literary titans.
March 22, 2004... Aristotle's Poetics contains a sentence that stands out for its simplicity and evocativeness: "Sophocles said that he himself created characters such as should exist, whereas Euripides created ones such as actually do exist" (47). Its meaning...

"A greater gust": generating the body in Absalom and Achitophel.
March 22, 2004... When my study of the "normative basis" of Absalom and Achitophel first appeared, it challenged the prevailing interpretation of the poem by arguing that Aristotelian hylomorphism provides a basis for structuring references to the begetting of...

Richard Steele and the genealogy of sentimental drama: a reading of The Conscious Lovers.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Although The Conscious Lovers dutifully finds its way into anthologies of eighteenth-century drama as an example of sentimental comedy in its early days, few modern readers would argue that Steele's last dramatic composition is a living...

"The greatest Victorian" in the new century: the enduring relevance of Walter Bagehot's commentary on literature, scholarship, and public life.
March 22, 2004... In 1937, one year after he published his landmark study, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age, George M. Young contributed a pair of essays to the Spectator in which he identifies Walter Bagehot as "The Greatest Victorian" from a list that...