Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 1994

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 1994

The other case: gender and narration in Charlotte Bronte's 'The Professor.'
September 22, 1994... Male novelists who use female narrators have been praised for their insights into "feminine psychology," yet we seldom expect women writers to represent masculinity from a male point of view. In her recent work on feminism and narratology,...

The roots of Beckett's aesthetic: mathematical allusions in 'Watt.' (Samuel Beckett)
September 22, 1994... Samuel Beckett's use of mathematics to represent the discourse of fiction may at first seem ironic. Mathematics is a language of precision; it keeps undefined terms at a minimum; it makes common agreement about the meaning of certain terms...

"Into the body of another": Mary Oliver and the poetics of becoming other.
September 22, 1994... "We belong to the moon," says Mary Oliver, and "the most/thoughtful among us dreams/of hurrying down...into the body of another" (49-50). We dream, we long, and some of us believe that we can step outside of ourselves and enter the body of...

Evelyn Waugh's early novels: the limits of fiction.
September 22, 1994... Apart from his own willingness to classify himself as an entertainer, one of the major reasons for the general view of Evelyn Waugh's early novels as frivolous is that they betray little in the way of overt philosophical content. While it is...

Mary Shelly on the therapeutic value of language.
September 22, 1994... The therapeutic value of oral and written self-expression is a recurrent theme in Mary Shelley's works, particularly in those works, such as Mathilda and Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, in which the...

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan.
September 22, 1994... Between 1980 and 1990, Cathy Davidson left her American university four times to teach in Japan. On each trip she saw Japan anew. During that decade she also ran across Japanese tourists in France, and that exposure gave her still another view...