Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2005

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2005

"The Queene is defrauded of the intent of the law": Spenser's advocation of civil law in A View of the State of Ireland.
March 22, 2005... Responses to Spenser's approach to legal reform in A View of the State of Ireland generally note his evasive but present critiques of the use of English Common Law in Ireland. As many critics, some to be noted here, point out, that critique had...

The Darwin before Darwin: Erasmus Darwin, visionary science, and romantic poetry.
March 22, 2005... Erasmus Darwin was at the center of the ideas and activities that drove the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century out of which the scientific worldview developed. His friends and fellow members of the Lunar Society make up what...

Paradice lost, paradise regained: homo faber and the makings of a new beginning in Oryx and Crake.
March 22, 2005... Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake (2003)critiques modernity's commitment to homo faber--he who labors to use every instrument as a means to achieve a particular end in building a world, even when the fabrication of that world necessarily...

Trees, kings, and muses: Robert Graves's Battle of the Trees and Jotham's Parable of the Trees.
March 22, 2005... Although the word "myth" is used in everyday speech to denote a fictional narrative, and as such may on occasion bear pejorative connotations, for Robert Graves and Raphael Patai myths "are dramatic stories that form a sacred charter either...

Mimetic desire in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy.
March 22, 2005... Midway through reading U.S.A., Sartre declared John Dos Passos "the greatest living writer of our time." Other contemporaries, including Faulkner and Hemingway, similarly praised the novelist and admired the innovative style and sheer scope of...