Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2009

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2009

Embodiments of history and delayed confessions: Graham Swift's Waterland as trauma fiction.(Report)
March 22, 2009... "Reality's already imposed itself in the form of a sodden corpse. And it's going to get more pressing, more palpable still... "--Graham Swift, Waterland Daniel Lea has recently remarked that [Graham] Swift is a problematic figure...

The diegetic achievement of Patrick O'Brian.(Report)
March 22, 2009... To date, criticism of Patrick O'Brian's fiction, never extending beyond the "Aubrey-Maturin" novels that form the bulk of his oeuvre, has emphasized the first part of their classification as "historical function," the mimetic accuracy of his...

Telling positions: country, countryside, and narration in The Remains of the Day.(Report)
March 22, 2009... There is, in retrospect, a certain inevitability about the 1993 Merchant/Ivory cinematic adaptation of The Remains of the Day. The novel itself seemed made to order for the team's literary sensibilities: an opulent period piece centered on the...

A new way of looking at older women writers.(Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Devoney Looser. Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. 252 pages. Hardcover $55.00. "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable...

Iceland's grand master of literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Halldor Gudmundson. The Islander: A Biography of Halldor Laxness. Trans. Philip Roughton. London: Quercus Publishing, 2008. 400 pages. Nobel Prize winning Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness was rescued from obscurity by novelist and academic...