Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 2001

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 2001

Literature and Sport as Ritual and Fantasy.
September 22, 2001... In From Ritual to Romance, first published in 1920 and an important source for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Jessie L. Weston pointed to the evolution of literature from previous rituals that gave rise to the form of the romance. Pursuing...

Ideology and History: William Mitford's History of Greece (1784-1810).
September 22, 2001... THE STUDY OF GREEK HISTORY IN ENGLAND AT THE CLOSE OF THE 18TH CENTURY By the end of the eighteenth century the growing regard for the wider Hellenic world among the English intelligentsia was not yet strongly reflected in the educational...

The Conception of Science in Wells's The Invisible Man.(H.G. Wells)
September 22, 2001... Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and...

The Primacy of the "Rougher" Version: Neo-Conservative Editorial Practices and Clara Reeve's Old English Baron.
September 22, 2001... The recovery of the work of eighteenth-century women authors, begun in earnest in the late 1970s, has been increasingly perceived as important over the years. Indeed, now we can even trace a history of the development of this recovery work. The...

Do Facts Matter on a CD-ROM?
September 22, 2001... Was Shakespeare's Macbeth set in the Falkland Islands? Or New Zealand? Or perhaps Australia? Did Shakespeare go to a University in Hong Kong? Did he shop at a Tesco's market? The editors at Columbia University Press may think so. At least, they...

Editors' Note.
September 22, 2001... The editors of Papers on Language and Literature extend their thanks to those persons who have given freely of their time and expertise in the reading of manuscripts submitted to the journal during 2000-2001: Stephen Arata--University of...

FORTHCOMING IN PLL.(Papers on Language and Literature)
September 22, 2001... DEREK MAUS, "The Devils in the Details: The Role of Evil in the Short Fiction of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and Nathaniel Hawthorne" DAVID GOLDWEBER, "Cullen, Keats, and the Privileged Liar" ASPASIA VELISSARIOU, "'Tis Pity That...