Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 2007

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 2007

John Mirk's holy women.
September 22, 2007... John Mirk's Festial, a popular English sermon collection, provided priests with orthodox, vernacular homilies for all the important saints' feasts of the Christian year (Fletcher 514). A canon-regular of the monastery at Lilleshall in...

Scholarly writing and emotional knowledge.
September 22, 2007... All our writing is spun out of our guts, whatever kind of writer we are, but we arrange many codes of indirection to avoid letting our guts be seen in our academic articles and books. This makes those who write about imaginary persons become,...

Tom Wolfe's American Ubermensch: I Am Charlotte Simmons and the rhetoric of "manly courage".
September 22, 2007... I Tom Wolfe's most recent book, I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), is a campus novel replete with the kind of literary pyrotechnics for which Wolfe has long been famous--the point-of-view shifts; the extended and extensive use of dialogue to...

Elijah and the beginning of Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms.
September 22, 2007... At the beginning of Evelyn Waugh's novel Men at Arms (1952), Guy Crouchback, the hero, faces an unusual problem. About to leave Italy for England at the beginning of the Second World War, Guy is presented with "a large ornamental cake which had...

Hemingway's feasts.
September 22, 2007... I The Hemingway hero, like the author himself, is always hungry, and a good dinner puts him in a good mood. The descriptions of food and drink in Hemingway's work--from youthful journalism to posthumously published fiction, from obscurity...