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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Death Of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy Of His Last Days [Review], Michael Fischer
The Death Of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy Of His Last Days [Review], Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
Sigmund Freud has been on Mark Edmundson’s mind at least since his 1990 book, Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud. In that book, Edmundson uncovers a tension between two sides of Freud: the normative Freud committed to a rigid understanding of human behavior, and the romantic Freud whose restlessness with all given conventions inspired endless self-reinvention in his own writing. This side of Freud shows his kinship to Wordsworth, Emerson, and other writers and provides grounds of resistance to what is most stultifying in his own work. In Edmundson’s view, we need the imaginative …
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 [Review], David Rando
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 [Review], David Rando
English Faculty Research
Like Stranger Shores (2000), Inner Workings collects J. M. Coetzee’s recent literary essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books or as introductions. Bound together, they accrue a taste and texture that readers might not have suspected if they encountered these essays in their original publications. Coetzee engages a compelling cluster of twentieth-century writers, including, among others, Italo Svevo, Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan, W. G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Márquez, V. S. Naipaul, and, likely of special interest to this journal’s readers, Philip Roth. Walt Whitman is the lonely denizen …
The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy And The Practice Of Sentimentalism, Claudia Stokes
The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy And The Practice Of Sentimentalism, Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
“The Mother Church” analyzes the influence of literary sentimentalism on the writings and doctrine of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. Having attempted a career as a sentimental poet in her early life, Eddy imported sentimental notions of motherhood and parent-child separation into Christian Science belief and iconography.
Rhyme Or Reason?: Successfully Translating The Poetry Of Paul Celan, Jeanna Goodrich
Rhyme Or Reason?: Successfully Translating The Poetry Of Paul Celan, Jeanna Goodrich
English Honors Theses
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Stephen King’S The Dark Tower And The Postmodern Serial, Jessica Waller
Stephen King’S The Dark Tower And The Postmodern Serial, Jessica Waller
English Honors Theses
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In Defense Of Genius: Howells And The Limits Of Literary History, Claudia Stokes
In Defense Of Genius: Howells And The Limits Of Literary History, Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
In early 1886, William Dean Howells fell into an ugly public debate with the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman. Carried out in the pages of Harper’s Monthly and the New Princeton Review, this dispute started as a disagreement about the origins of literary craftsmanship but quickly escalated into a heated epistemological squabble about the limits of historical knowledge. It began in March of that year, when Howells gave a mixed review to Stedman’s Poets of America (1885), a history of American poetry. Though Howells conceded the importance of Stedman’s contribution to the emerging discipline of American literary history, …
Using Stanley Cavell, Michael Fischer
Using Stanley Cavell, Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
Stanley Cavell often speaks of inheriting and carrying on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and other writers. These writers help him move on in his own thinking, turning him around when he feels lost, provoking him when he gets discouraged or stuck. His indebtedness to J. L. Austin in the acknowledgements to Must We Mean What We Say? (1969) captures one way he benefits from all the writers who have influenced him: “To the late J. L. Austin I owe, beyond what I hope is plain in my work, whatever is owed the teacher …
Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation To "Finnegans Wake" [Review], David Rando
Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation To "Finnegans Wake" [Review], David Rando
English Faculty Research
Books about Finnegans Wake announce their forms with unusual regularity: skeleton keys, plot summaries, reader’s guides, first-draft versions, lexicons, gazetteers, censuses, genetic guides, annotations, and more. Every form offers a particular route through the Wake, and we hope our collective efforts add up to a cartography of possibilities. But until now we have never been issued an “invitation” to the Wake. Many readers of this journal will realize that they must have invited themselves uncouthly to the Wake long ago, and some will imagine that it is too late for invitations when one has already been at the party …
Literary Retrospection In The Harlem Renaissance, Claudia Stokes
Literary Retrospection In The Harlem Renaissance, Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
In 1925, book collector and Harlem Renaissance patron Arthur A. Schomburg began the essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past," published in Alain Locke's landmark anthology The New Negro (1925), by proclaiming that the "American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. ... So among the rising democratic millions we find the Negro thinking more collectively, more retrospectively than the rest, and opt out of the very pressure of the present to become the most enthusiastic antiquarian of them all" (231). These words might be surprising to the beginning student of the Harlem Renaissance, seduced by …