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Multisensory Tristram Shandy, Cynthia N. Malone
Multisensory Tristram Shandy, Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
An absorbed reader typically pays little conscious attention to the visual, tactile, and sometimes aural sensory experiences of reading. Unexpected formal and visual features of Laurence Sterne’s nine-volume fictional narrative, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, startle readers out of absorption and call attention to familiar operations like decoding black figures on white paper and turning pages. My edition of Volume I is designed to engage the senses through its visual structure, textures, and unexpected materials (buttons, marbled paper strips, and ribbons) and through formal surprises (interpolated documents, accordion-fold inserts, and paper lace). In its structure …
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale And Boccaccio's Decameron X.10, Jessica Harkins
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale And Boccaccio's Decameron X.10, Jessica Harkins
English Faculty Publications
Many readers find that Chaucer's Clerk's Tale profoundly critiques Petrarch's methods of translation, but hesitate to claim that Chaucer knew the text Petrarch was translating: Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story from the Decameron. This hesitation goes back to J. Burke Severs's assertion that Chaucer did not know Boccaccio's text. David Wallace began to undermine this argument by drawing attention to shared textual traits of these two versions of the story, but only John Finlayson has advanced the case directly against Severs by arguing that Boccaccio must be a source. What has perhaps most prevented a shift in our reading …
Writers And Critics At The Dinner Table: Tristram Shandy As Conversational Model, Cynthia N. Malone
Writers And Critics At The Dinner Table: Tristram Shandy As Conversational Model, Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
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A Clock And A Companion Poem To Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress', Matthew Harkins
A Clock And A Companion Poem To Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress', Matthew Harkins
English Faculty Publications
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“A Young Voice, A Statue, And Marvell's 'The Nymph Complaining', Matthew Harkins
“A Young Voice, A Statue, And Marvell's 'The Nymph Complaining', Matthew Harkins
English Faculty Publications
The allegorical flexibility of Marvell's ‘The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn’ is consonant both with shifting ideas of youth in early modern England and with Marvell's complicated fascination with the young. A companion poem by Marvell's contemporary, Thomas Philipott, also describes how a young nymph in a garden turns into a weeping statue: the differences between these two poems underscore how Marvell's young narrator, rather than satisfying familiar interpretive practices, prompts investigation into the cultural implications of these practices. Ultimately, the poem reconsiders the nature of pastoral and the consequences of circumscribing the voices of the young.
Making “Young Hamlet”, Matthew Harkins
Making “Young Hamlet”, Matthew Harkins
English Faculty Publications
While youth’s subordinate position in Hamlet has played a vital role within the play’s critical tradition, this tradition has not questioned the ideological processes that create “youth” as a social category—that define what youth means, whom it includes, and why. Rather than portray an archetypal contest between the young and the old or portray Hamlet’s developmental progression from youth to maturity, the play examines the production and application of these categories as political phenomena. By exposing the circumscribed logic that produces these categories, Hamlet fractures the ideological justifications for early modern constructions of youth and age.
Anxieties Of Impotence: Cuban Americas In New York City, Christina M. Tourino
Anxieties Of Impotence: Cuban Americas In New York City, Christina M. Tourino
English Faculty Publications
In her paper, "Anxieties of Impotence: Cuban Americas in New York City, " Christina Marie Tourino seeks a basis for comparison between Latin American literatures and Latino literatures of the United States. Such groups have rarely been compared in the past because they are considered part of the same literary "family." However, Tourino argues that owing to the flows of capital driven by global pressures, literatures between and among Latin Americans and Latinos hail from such culturally heterogeneous sites and are made over by so many relocations that they do call for comparative projects. Instead of comparing texts across national …
Near Confinement: Pregnant Women In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Cynthia N. Malone
Near Confinement: Pregnant Women In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
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"'Flight' And 'Pursuit': Fugitive Identity In Bleak House,", Cynthia N. Malone
"'Flight' And 'Pursuit': Fugitive Identity In Bleak House,", Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
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