Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 1995

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 1995

"Pruning by Study": self-cultivation in Bacon's 'Essays.'
September 22, 1995... The question of the relationship of Bacon's Essays to his scientific project is a recurring commonplace of Bacon criticism. Generally, critics have argued over the degree to which the Essays conform to Bacon's inductive method, as described...

What rough beast? Yeats, Nietzsche and historical rhetoric in "The Second Coming."
September 22, 1995... In the absence of a thorough examination of the impact on "The Second Coming" of Yeats's historical thought, it is arguable that the meaning the poet intended has not only been consistently overlooked, but that in general the poem has been taken...

Spirit-bird, bowshot, water-snake, corpses, cosmic love: reshaping the Coleridge legacy in Dickey's 'Deliverance.'
September 22, 1995... I'd like to be some sort of bird, a migratory seabird like a tern or a wandering albatross. But. . . I'll have to keep trying to do it, to die and fly, by words. --James Dickey, Self-Interviews 79 "I like to work my...

Martin Daugherty's victories in 'Billy Phelan's Greatest Game.'
September 22, 1995... The title of William Kennedy's third novel, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978),(1) refers on the one hand to a simple bowling game, at which the good-natured Albany hustler and gambler Billy Phelan rolls a 299. But the "greatest game" of the...

Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture.
September 22, 1995... Phillip Brian Harper. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 233 pp. Paper $15.95. Marginality, writes Michel de Certeau in The Practice of Everyday Life (1984), "is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and...