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- ItemGerard Manley Hopkins: A Study in the Poetry of Divine Ecology(1970) Handford, Peter S.W.; Lester, John A. (John Ashby), 1915-1983; Satterthwaite, Alfred W.This essay attempts in a general way to view critically the major, complete poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- Itemthe leaves referred to when shaking(2000) Fritz, Jason
- ItemSatanic Mr. Twain(2002) Lankford, AdamMakes the argument that Mark Twain was Satan, the Devil himself. Focuses on clues from Twain's manuscript "The Chronicles of Young Satan," upon which his final work, "The Mysterious Stranger," was primarily based. Highlights the undeniable links between Twain and the manuscript's character of Satan, along with Twain's acknowledgement that his story functions as a tool which leads readers to corruption and despair.
- ItemA heap of signifying : narrative, materiality, and reification in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man(2002) Sharp, Matthew T.Ralph Ellison's multi-nuanced novel seems to veer continually between real and surreal planes, between mimesis and metaphor, without ever resting fully in either one. Ellison's most striking departures from verisimilitude are material in nature, taking the form of physical spaces and interactions with material things. These material details carry the weight of narrative itself: rather than being peripheral to the flow of narrative, as is the conventional role of material description, they seem to convey it within themselves. This material condensation has two related effects. First, it calls attention to the complete disjunction between any narrative and the events which the narrative conveys. Second, Ellison's full utilization of this disjunction, which allows him to tell his narrative in material terms, conveys with particular effectiveness the play of reification between the narrator and the world around him. This essay examines the material narration of Invisible Man and the way it condenses relationships of reification and power, first through the spaces that effect the narrator's reification, and then through the things with which he strikes back. Literary theories of Deconstruction and Marxism are brought together by using Jacques Derrida's theories of language to explicate Ellison's narration of Georg Lukacs' politics.
- ItemUnderstanding a Legacy: The Necessity of Struggling with Inherited Traumatic Memory(2002) Tossman, Matthew; Friedman, Andrew, 1974-
- ItemNegotiating Identity To and From 'El Otro Lado': The Hybridization of Culture in Sandra Cisneros' Women Hollering Creek(2002) Colon, Chervonne Elysha; Tensuan, Theresa
- ItemTi Jean's Failed Reconciliation: A Freudian take on Kerouac's Old Angel Midnight(2002) Kaesemeyer, Karl D.; Ransom, James
- ItemThe Triumph of Life: Suspended Triumphs and Performative Revisions(2003) Reilly, Matthew; Finley, C. Stephen
- ItemEnvironmental Imagination: Seeing into the Depths of the Wild(2003) Boyd, Carrie C.; Ransom, James
- ItemThe Post-Modern Joke: Martin Amis' attempt to narrate modern life through literature in 'London Fields'(2003) TeBordo, Timothy; Mohan, Rajeswari
- ItemNarrating the Secrets: Military Prostitution, Morality, and Politics in Nora Okja Keller's 'Fox Girl'(2003) Choi, Christin; Tensuan, Theresa
- ItemThe Labyrinthine Elements in 'Middlemarch': A Socio-Economic Paradigm of Marriage(2003) Jeffrey, Robert L.; Finley, C. Stephen
- ItemBreaking up the Border: Ciaran Carson's Urban Narratives(2003) Frisbee, John K.; Devenney, Christopher, 1961-
- ItemUp All Night(2003) Bernstein, Adam; Benston, Sue
- ItemRe-Defining Meaning in Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle"(2003) Bobé, Diandra; Sherman, Debora
- Item"Secret Spaces and Male Gazes": A critical introduction to Future's Father(2003) Newhouse, S. I.; Benston, Sue
- ItemThe Land is Forever: Landscape and the Crofting Identity in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Sunset Song'(2003) Graham, Lisa K.; Finley, C. Stephen
- ItemThe Desire for Orpheus and Eurydice: Returning to the End to Return to the Beginning(2003) Morrow, Susannah; Benston, Kimberly W.
- ItemWorking against closure : sexuality and the narrative endings of Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved(2003) Gravett, Amber; Stadler, GustavusBoth Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved focus on the time of adolescence, when young adults are beginning to experience sexual feelings, but cannot yet express them in socially-acceptable ways, such as marriage. Although both texts allow their female protagonists freedom to express their sexuality in non-conventional ways, thereby leading the reader to expect certain independent qualities from them, the endings of both novels remain conventional in confining the protagonist to a proper lifestyle expected of women. However, by using D.A. Miller's theory on the effects of closure in a novel, which maintains that a novel's closure does not subscribe full meaning to the text as a whole, it becomes possible to again, even in the novel's closure, view these female protagonists as the independent heroines the reader admired.
- ItemEpisodically Exploding Every Explored Option: Angela Carter Deconstructing Notions of Gender(2003) Goodson, Will; Mohan, Rajeswari