category: literary criticism

The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

... my mom, whose support I've always felt and who models for me the careful ... sister, whose generosity and humor have always enriched my life. I owe a debt of ... summer of 2003, and for providing humanity with the gift and wonder of ...

The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses

... feel so sad today , so lonely . ' He addresses the envelope , then blots the blotting - pad so that Richie cannot read the address after he has gone . Might he not win a prize from Titbits for a story in which a detective solves a ...

American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies

... Terry Southern , 1950–1995 . Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman . New York : Grove Press , 2001 . NONFICTION Writers in Revolt . Edited with Richard Seaver and Alexander Trocchi . New York : Frederick Fell , 1963 . The Log Book ...

Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives

... Burroughs, serial memoir is one way to narrativize his constantly changing ... Augusten Burroughs as a limit case for this conclusion, I discusshis online ... Dry: in Picturespresents readers/viewers withanAugusten who is simultaneously ...

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life: The Boundaries of Civic Space

... duality in which the Nurse's words again refer to equality: Marius is a Man, and so's Sylla. Oh! but Marius's Lip! And then Sylla's Nose and Forehead! but then Marius's Eye agen! how 'twill sparkle, and twinckle, and rowl, and sleer ...

Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic

... Mistress of Mellyn , a perfectly conventional example of the female plot . During the subsequent dozen or so years , mass - market paperback " Gothics " crowded the drugstore and supermarket paperback shelves . These books asked to be ...

Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony

... James Gleick, whose book, Chaos, raised awareness of the subject and sowed the seeds of an idea for a play in Stoppard's mind,154 describes very clearly how the Occam's razor process is at the heart of Chaos Theory: Traditionally, when ...

Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body

... Richard III.” Shakespeare Quarterly 47.3 (1996): 251–68. Print. Newton, Hannah. The Sick Child in Early Modern ... Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1996. Print. ———. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. The Norton Shakespeare ...

Shakespeare and Literary Theory

... Romeo's idealizing solar metaphor for love—a sun-like singularity that dazzles everything in its solar system, of which it is the organizing centre—and Juliet's ... duality as integral also to Romeo and Juliet's love. The fact that the lovers ...

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

... Macbeth. To be sure, the play is not without hyperbolic modes of dramatizing its sexual issues. Most obviously, the ... jeopardy, as is the principle of differentiation in signification itself – male/female, life/ death. In contrast to the ...

Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

... Hall, James, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, London: John Murray, 1974. Hall, Marie Boas, The Scientific Renaissance 1450–1630, London: Collins, 1962. Hankins, J. E, Backgrounds of Shakespeare's Thoughts, Hassocks ...

Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage

... Romeo and Juliet: SixteenthCentury Medicine at a Figural/Literal Cusp” examines the social repercussions of shifting ... duality of mind and body as a direct result of Galenic humoral precepts. Yet unlike Moss, Hunter relates theories of the ...

World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon

... duality of this Greek word and concept , that insight is not developed in his essay on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , for his discussion of that play concentrates on the problem of naming as the problem of aphorism . See Jacques ...

1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern

... Parade,” New York Times, March 13, 1938, 31. 96. Quoted in Hugh Fordin, Getting to Know Him: Oscar Hammerstein II (New York: Ungar, 1986), 349. 97. The Sound of Music libretto, 14. 98. The Sound of Music libretto, 74–75. 99. The Sound ...

The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama

... piano score , arranged by Terry Davies . ) For fifty thousand years I was governed by men of.

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives

... Chester Brown,” collected in Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman, 172. The Grace and Hoffman collection includes sixteen ... Paying for It has received a more obvious sexpositive feminist reading than The Playboy—see Sprinkle, for instance— ...

New Essays on The Awakening

... Kate Chopin : A Critical Biography ( Baton Rouge : Loui- siana State ... The Awakening , ed . Margaret Culley ( New York : Norton , 1976 ) , pp . 145-55 ... summary of laissez - faire thought in America is Max Lerner , " The Triumph ...

30 Great Myths about Chaucer

... Anya Seton's extremely popular fictionalized biography of Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister‐in‐law.15 Katherine, the younger sister of Chaucer's wife Philippa, was governess to John of Gaunt's children from his first wife, Blanche of ...

African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya

... Jumping Monkey Hill, as the protagonist informs us that: The white South African woman was from Durban, while the black man came from Johannesburg. The Tanzanian man came from Dar es Salaam, the Ugandan man from Kampala, the Zimbabwean ...

Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction

... heart of darkness” applies to the three works we have read. What is the heart of darkness in Things Fall Apart, in Cry, the Beloved Country, and in The Steam Pig? These work well as final examination essay topics, with students possibly ...

Fairy Tales: A New History

A New History Ruth B. Bottigheimer. of volumes 1 and 2 into one. This had the effect of applying his remarks about folk tales (so amply represented in Volume 2) equally to fairy tales (so many of which appeared in Volume 1). He ...

Female Friendship: Literary and Artistic Explorations

... PDF file is available for free access , scanned from NLR copy , see : rusneb ... Fairy tales and true stories , 272 . 28. Tropinka , online : arch.rgdb.ru ... Tail ? On the Translation of Puns in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in ...

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction: Essays on the Genero Negro Tradition

... Ignacio Padilla of Amyph- tryon ( 2000 ) [ Shadow Without a Name ] and Espiral de artillería ( 2003 ) [ Artillery Spiral ] . Both Volpi and Padilla explore the nature of evil in the 20th century , and attempt to understand or elucidate ...

Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

... Kanji, the sinographic part of Japanese writing, are glossed with the help of Hiragana, one of the syllabic scripts of Japanese. is obeys the necessities of a phonetic diglossia proper to Japanese: depending on context, Kanji are either ...

Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923-1934

... Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights (1938), Toklas asks whether Marguerite Ida Helena Annabel is another M figure. Such exchanges appear for years as a red subtext in manuscripts. Apparently after the discovery of the manuscript, Toklas ...

Gertrude Stein: Selections

The fascinating documents that end the book can be regarded as the sweet at the end of a fully satisfying and memorable experience. This is an essential book for both new and long-term discoverers of the wonder of Gertrude Stein's writings.

Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature

... Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights SHIRLEY NEUMAN IDA A NOVEL BECOMES AN OPERA ' [ I ] n a kind of a way novels are still a puzzle to me ' , 1 Gertrude Stein explained as she began Ida A ... Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Shirley Neuman.

Stein, Bishop, and Rich

... patriarchal " in fostering a whole family of concerns , in including ... Gertrude Stein , " 56 ) . Dydo goes on to argue that " Patriarchal organization is vertical ... Poetry " is associated with much that 52 Stein and the First War She Saw.

Crises of the Sentence

... Stein's names for the empty variation of word choice and sentence style that she is combating is “patriarchal poetry ... Gertrude Stein, Patriarchal Poetry, Writings: 1903–1932 (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1998), 577 ...

A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innnovative Writing

Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innnovative Writing Deborah M. Mix. Reject rejoice rejuvenate ... Patriarchal poetry partly. In an as much to be in exactly their measure. Patriarchal poetry partly. — Gertrude Stein ...

Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis

... patriarchy constitutes itself through acts of sacrifice. Univocal meaning, according to Stein, is one of the illusions and oppressions of patriarchal thinking. (As she writes in a later work, “Patriarchal Poetry is the same”—the ...

Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism

... Poetry and Poetics . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1974 . Rich , Adrienne . Sources . Woodside , CA : Hyeck Press ... Stein , Gertrude . Patriarchal Poetry . In The Yale Gertrude Stein , ed . Richard Kostelanetz . New Haven : Yale UP , 1980 ...

Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade

... entered which means entered again and upon ” ( 275 ) .31 The recurring phrase that articulates her con- tradictory relation to traditional literature is " Patriarchal poetry in pieces " ( 281 ) , a line that expresses Gertrude Stein 109.

Virginia Woolf and Poetry

... poetry , and non - verbal signs ( a musical phrase and a constellation sign ) ... poetry , and perhaps her reticence and self ... Gertrude Stein , a contemporary who was likewise suspicious of male claims on poetry . Her “ Patriarchal ...

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