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Looking Again At James Currie’S Inventory: The Other Side Of Robert Burns’S Correspondence, Patrick Scott, Jo Durant

Patrick Scott

You Must Join My Dead: E. M. Forster And The Death Of The Novel, Jesse Matz

Jesse Matz

No abstract provided.

Martin Weinrich’S De Ortu Monstrorum Commentarius (1595) And Its Reception In England, Rachel E. Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

The Dutch Black Legend, Carmen Nocentelli

Carmen Nocentelli

English “Hollandophobia” is usually understood as a function or reflection of the rivalries that characterized Anglo-Dutch relations during the seventeenth century. Working against such a circumscribed understanding, this essay contends that Hollandophobia is best thought of as a “Dutch Black Legend”—that is, as a deliberate repetition of the Hispanophobic topoi known as the Spanish Black Legend. Only by acknowledging the intimate relationship between these two phenomena can we make sense of Hollandophobia’s peculiar features while discerning how this discourse helped construct what the English took to be proper Europeanness.

The Librarian In Rowling’S Harry Potter Series, Mary Freier

Mollie Freier

In her article "The Librarian in Rowling's Harry Potter Series" Mary P. Freier discusses Hermione Granger's skills as a librarian and researcher which lead to the defeat of Lord Voldemort. In each novel in the series, Hermione's research provides the necessary information for the solving of the mystery. Throughout the series, Hermione proves to be the only character who can use books effectively without putting herself or others in danger. Hermione begins the series as a child who loves the library, but does not always know how to use it effectively, while Madam Pince begins the series as a stereotypical …

The Poetics Of Existential Nihilism: Philosophical Inquiry Into The Devaluation Of Existence In W.H. Auden's Poetry, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

No abstract provided.

Examining Early And Recent Criticism Of The Waste Land: A Reassessment, Tyler E. Anderson Mr.

Tyler E Anderson

My thesis will closely examine recent trends in criticism of "The Waste Land," namely the ideological rebuttal against the New Critics proposed by recent historicists such as Lawrence Rainey. I will show that Rainey has unfairly characterized the so-called New Critics as supporting a reading of the poem that only sees it for a work of order and unity while in fact they acknowledged many organizational inconsistencies within the text. A central tenet of my thesis will be that ideological characterizations of earlier critics should never substitute actual close readings of the texts themselves. My findings will lead to broader …

Popular Depression: How Literature Is Affecting The Female Image, Samantha Bloodworth

Samantha Murillo

No abstract provided.

Narrative Of Distance And Exilic Melancholia In W.H. Auden's "Refugee Blues", Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

The paper is a textual inquiry into how Auden uses poetic and linguistic strategies in “Refugee Blues” to convey the reality of distancing and the profundity of the feelings of melancholy, wretchedness and rejection that typifies the existential condition of exilic people in general and Jews in particular. Using a Structuralist lens and Psychological theories of distance, the analyzes illustrates that the poem is an exemplar poetic discourse about the gnawing reality of an exile’s expectations and the actuality of living in a world where he is unwelcomed and completely cut off from any meaningful connection to that which he …

Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 299 pages, bibliography, index. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek presents a framework of comparative literature based on a contextual (systemic and empirical) approach for the study of culture and literature and applies the framework in audience studies, film and literature, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities and in the analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, and English-Canadian modern, contemporary, and ethnic minority texts. Copyright release to the author in 2006.

Women, The Novel, And Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727 shows how early women novelists drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre and literary omniscience as a point of view. These writers such as Aphra Behn, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, and Mary Davys used, tested, explored, accepted, and rejected ideas about the self in their works to represent the act of knowing and what it means to be a knowing self. Karen Bloom Gevirtz agues that as they did so, they developed structures for representing authoritative knowing that contributed to the development …

Critical Histories Of Omniscience, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

This chapter of New Directions in the History of the Novel tells the story of the literary-critical invention of the Victorian novel’s narrative omniscience. Beginning with Victorian reviewers’ references to novelistic omniscience, the essay moves through early versions of narrative omniscience penned by post-Jamesian novel theorists and critics, who saw the talkative, inartistic, “omniscient author” as inessential to the novel and excluded it from their accounts of novelistic form. It marks a major shift in the 1960s, when the Anglo-American tradition began to see omniscience as formal and central to the Victorian novel’s form, tracing this shift through Foucauldian “panoptic …

Hamish Henderson: The Desert War, Italy, And Scottish Poetry, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Catalogue of library exhibition about the Scottish poet and folk musicologist Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), covering Henderson's career during World War II, with the 51st Highland Division in the Western Desert and with the Italian resistance, and after the war as prize-winning poet, as political theorist and translator of Gramsci, as a champion and collector of Scottish traditional song, and as folk performer and composer. Includes information on the Henderson manuscripts in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, including drafts of his poem Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (1948).

Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

The appearance of this volume by E. Maurice Bloch, the dean of Bingham studies, is a most significant event. Superseding Bloch's preliminary catalogue of 1967, this impressive new volume constitutes the definitive catalogue of Bingham's paintings. With more than 350 illustrations, including 23 in color, it provides a guide to both Bingham's familiar works and his lesser-known subjects, documenting the artist's development both as portraitist and as recorder of Western American subject matter. An insightful introductory essay of twenty-eight large, double-column pages presents Bingham .as man and artist, exploring the events and influences that shaped his art and effectively locating …

Gender And Space In British Literature, 1660-1820, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

“Murdering An Aunt Or Two”: Textual Practice And Narrative Form In Virginia Woolf’S Metropolitan Market, John K. Young

John K. Young

As evidence for the multiple connections between the commercial and intellectual freedoms provided by the Hogarth Press for its co-owner and leading author, consider a diary entry from September 1925:

How my hand writing goes down hill! Another sacrifice to the Hogarth Press. Yet what I owe the Hogarth Press is barely paid by the whole of my handwriting…I’m the only woman in England free to write what I like. The others must be thinking of series’ & editors. Yesterday I heard from Harcourt Brace that Mrs. D & C.R. are selling 148 & 73 weekly--Isn’t that a surprising rate …

Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, L Monique Pittman

L. Monique Pittman

This performance criticism project enlists theorist Michel de Certeau’s concepts of institutional strategy and individual tactic to examine social resistance in three productions of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1593/94) staged by the Midwestern Shakespearean repertory company, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. The three productions date from CST’s new millennium rise to prominence on the Navy Pier skyline and instantiate the ways in which the theater reconciles its self-promotional image of Shakespeare the Great Humanist with the misogynist content of Taming. Since 1999, CST has staged two full-scale productions of Taming, one led by David H. Bell (2003) and …

Fluellen’S Foreign Influence And The Ill Neighborhood Of King Henry V, Ruben Espinosa

Ruben Espinosa

This essay considers Shakespeare’s attention to Fluellen’s foreignness in King Henry V amid the play’s exploration of a nebulous cultural/national English identity, and it argues that the play’s emphasis on cultural and religious difference serves to underscore Elizabethan England’s tenuous sense of self. The imagined English fellowship under God that Henry evokes is at odds with the divided community at the margins of his play and the fractured identity of Shakespeare’s own England. Through Fluellen, then, difference is marked as concurrently strange and surprisingly stable.

Shakespeare And Immigration, Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter

Ruben Espinosa

The essays in this collection examine the role of, and reaction to, the issue of immigration in Shakespeare’s drama and culture. This volume not only seeks to interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity, and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England, but they also aim to understand how our current concerns surrounding immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in Shakespeare’s work and expand the texts in new and relevant directions to a contemporary audience.

"Marlowe's Translations Of Ovid And Lucan", M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

No abstract provided.

Eighteenth-Century Poetry And The Rise Of The Novel Reconsidered, Courtney Smith, Kate Parker

Courtney Weiss Smith

"Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered" begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England. Indeed, by exploring unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels, this volume of exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. The novel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries. http://www.bucknell.edu/script/upress/book.asp?id=2501

Hunting Love And Catching Cupid In Spenser’S ‘March’ And Nashe’S Choise Of Valentines, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

Providential Empiricism: Shaping The Self In Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.

Marlowe's Ovid: The "Elegies" In The Marlowe Canon, M. L. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

My study analyzes Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s _Amores_, the _Elegies_, in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, _Hero and Leander_. Recent books and articles by Patrick Cheney, Ian Frederick Moulton, and Georgia E. Brown indicate a transformation in critical thinking about Marlowe’s Elegies. Earlier studies focused on the accuracy of the translation and bibliographic issues, not on the text’s worth as poetry or its importance as a document of cultural history. I engage my predecessors by using Marlowe’s rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry, …

A Monumental Mistake: Newly Discovered Letters To Handel Editor Samuel Arnold, Jeremy Barlow, Todd Gilman

Todd Gilman

Tidying As We Go: Constructing The Eighteenth Century Through Adaptation In Becoming Jane, Gulliver’S Travels, And Crusoe, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

The Remains Of Several Hearts, Suzanne Raitt

Suzanne Raitt

No abstract provided.

Popular Depression: How Literature Is Affecting The Female Image, Samantha Bloodworth

Samantha Murillo

This paper contemplates traditional representations of females in literature throughout history for the purposes of examining the effects produced upon women by linking traditional representations to increased depression rates among teenage girls and women. Specifically, I will be asserting that the consistent and frequent portrayal of weak women is causing females to be more inclined to identify themselves as depressed. This paper will be focusing on the works of Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, and Stephanie Myers and discussing their respective female characters by examining the language and cultural practices that create Western concepts of femininity to demonstrate how these characters intensify …