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Puritanism: The Persistence Of A Myth, Leslie A. Fiedler
Puritanism: The Persistence Of A Myth, Leslie A. Fiedler
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
A study of the impact on subsequent literature and criticism of the myth of American Puritanism invented in Victorian times and given its classic formulation by Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter.
"My Only Swerving": Sentimentality In Contemporary Poetry, Andrew Hudgins
"My Only Swerving": Sentimentality In Contemporary Poetry, Andrew Hudgins
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
The article looks at several contemporary poems to see how they succumb to sentimentality in their treatment of nature, while William Stafford's "Traveling through the Dark" does not .
"Who Can Rule And Dare Not Lie": Tennyson's Bicameral King, Judith Weissman
"Who Can Rule And Dare Not Lie": Tennyson's Bicameral King, Judith Weissman
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
Tennyson's poetry is pervaded by the kinds of auditory hallucinations that Julian Jaynes describes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Tennyson begins in a late stage of Jaynes's history, with the voices of demons, and moves backward to Jaynes's point of origin, the admonitory voice of the tribal king .
Giving Up Music, W.D. Snodgrass
Giving Up Music, W.D. Snodgrass
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
The author describes how he gave up his studies in music, which thereupon assumed a dominant influence in his literary career.
The Poem As A Reservoir For Grief, Tess Gallagher
The Poem As A Reservoir For Grief, Tess Gallagher
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
America is a nation perhaps almost ready for the serious work of grieving. While other methods for handling grief often neglect or trivialize the occasion, poems remain able to carry the density of a complex synthesis of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional perceptions
Surrealism: Perspectives On The Avant-Garde, J.H. Matthews
Surrealism: Perspectives On The Avant-Garde, J.H. Matthews
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
Tests the hypothesis that two forms of the avant-garde exist, the official and the unofficial.
The Waterfowl Tree, William Kittredge
The Waterfowl Tree, William Kittredge
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
William Kittredge is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. His next book, We Are Not in This Together and Other Stones, will be published by Graywolf Press in April 1984 .
Tootsie, Feminism, And The Modern Self, C. Roland Wagner
Tootsie, Feminism, And The Modern Self, C. Roland Wagner
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
The movie Tootsie not only reflects increasing American tolerance of androgyny in both men and women, but also celebrates an old-fashioned ideal of self-discipline, an ideal implicit in a male incarcerating himself within the prison of femininity and learning from it . It is an achievement of the modernist temper.