Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 2003

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 2003

"Culture and corruption": Paterian self-development versus Gothic degeneration in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... "Culture and corruption," murmured Dorian, "I have known something of both." --Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray I hold that no work of art can be tried otherwise than by laws deduced from itself: whether or not it be consistent...

"A sense of something lost": the unlived Jamesian life in Algernon Blackwood's "The Tryst".
September 22, 2003... The last few decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth have often been described as "the golden age of the English ghost story" (Cox and Gilbert xiii). This was a rarified time "when authors excelled themselves at...

"And everyone and I stopped breathing": William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and the news of the day in verse.
September 22, 2003... It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. --William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" The above line from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" expresses...

"No ties except those of blood": class, race, and Jack London's American plague.
September 22, 2003... Upton Sinclair in The Jungle (1906), a book littered with references to disease--tuberculosis, cholera, spoiled meat and (Sinclair's larger point) the "monstrous disease" of industrial capitalism--permits himself the phrase "the germ of hope"...

Mind Your P's and Q's.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Tim Conley. Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation. U of Toronto P, 2003. 192 pp. Cloth $50.00. Tim Conley has written a book about mistakes or errors in Joyce's writings, and one aspect of how he defines error or...

A New Direction for the Field.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Sami Ludwig. Pragmatist Realism: The Cognitive Paradigm in American Realist Texts. Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 2002. 310 pp. Cloth $55.00; Paper $22.95. Sami Ludwig's Pragmatist Realism is an ambitious and innovative study of American...