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Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod
Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod
English Faculty Articles and Research
How Mark Axelrod lined up some of the world’s finest writers on one of the world’s biggest issues – and still couldn’t get them into print.
Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Love Story Of Affection And Abuse, Randy Souther
Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Love Story Of Affection And Abuse, Randy Souther
Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship
Review of Joyce Carol Oates's 1996 novella First Love: A Gothic Tale, emphasizing the psychological underpinnings of the dual gothic and realistic elements in the story. Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, August 4, 1996.
Review Of Powell's "Old And New Testaments", Bill Jolliff
Review Of Powell's "Old And New Testaments", Bill Jolliff
Faculty Publications - Department of English
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Antimodern, Modern, And Postmodern Millay: Contexts Of Revaluation, Cheryl Walker
Antimodern, Modern, And Postmodern Millay: Contexts Of Revaluation, Cheryl Walker
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
In this chapter, Walker examines questions concerning renewed scholarly interest in Edna St. Vincent Millay toward the end of the twentieth century. Specifically, these questions center on whether to rethink the principles of establishing the canon of American literature--indeed, whether the poet changes literary fashions or literary fashions change the poet. Walker's answer is the latter, and her essay examines how Millay is different received through three different periods: antimodern, modern, and postmodern. She argues that whether a poet becomes central to literary study has less to do with the "quality" of the poetry than with complex cultural factors that …