Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 1999

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 1999

"New World Woman": Toni Morrison's Sula.
September 22, 1999... I always thought of Sula as quintessentially black, metaphysically black, if you will, which is not melanin and certainly not unquestioning fidelity to the tribe. She is new world black and new world woman extracting choice from choicelessness,...

Ethical Exegesis in Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham.
September 22, 1999... A keen sense of the ethical in both its personal and social aspects gave William Dean Howells's editorial commentary and fiction a clear purpose and a forceful goal: moral suasion. His adept moral analyses and his ability to dramatize the...

Female Sexuality and Triangular Desire in Vanity Fair and The Mill on the Floss.
September 22, 1999... In Rene Girard's structural paradigm of triangular desire, set forth in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, female sexuality is an organizing theme. Girard's triangle is a metaphor for relations in which the mediator inspires the subject's desire...

"The Scraps, Patches, and Rags of Daily Life": Gaskell's Oriental Other and the Conservation of Cranford.
September 22, 1999... Cranfordism and the "Scraps, Patches, and Rags of Daily Life" Cranford always gave Mrs. Gaskell a great deal of pleasure. It represented to her the charms of everyday life, and she predictably clung to its homespun surfaces and simple...