Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 2004

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 2004

"I shall most likely be out on the links": golf as metaphor in the ghost stories of M. R. James.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Celebrated author, medievalist, wit, raconteur, Provost of both Cambridge University and Eton College, Montague Rhodes James is described by E. F. Bleiler in his introduction to the Dover edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary as "in many...

Vision and vacancy: "Schalken the Painter" and Le Fanu's art of darkness.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... And it's old and old it's sad and old it's sad and weary I go back to you my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father... --Finnegans Wake Underlying the melodrama and moralism, the orthodoxy and...

Controversial aspects of Pater's "Style".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... In his late essay "Style" (1888), reprinted a year later in Appreciations, Walter Pater set out to explore the possibilities of prose as the special art of the modern world and to justify his own literary practice. Considering how rarely he...

"Nobody knows the story": Amy Clampitt's poems of childhood.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994) IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AMERICAN POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S FINAL 15 YEARS, ALL THE MORE INTERESTING BECAUSE HER MAJOR PUBLICATIONS, THE ONES ON WHICH HER REPUTATION IS BASED, CAME OUT AFTER SHE WAS 63. IT...