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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
"Living Words": Samuel Taylor Coleridge And The Genesis Of The Oed, James C. Mckusick
"Living Words": Samuel Taylor Coleridge And The Genesis Of The Oed, James C. Mckusick
English Faculty Publications
Today we are at a crucial moment in the evolution of the Oxford English Dictionary, as the dog-eared volumes are withdrawn from library shelves and replaced by the sleek second edition of 1989. This new OED bears witness to the continuing relevance and utility of the "New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" for the current generation of literary scholars. The event of its publication provides an opportunity for a fresh historical perspective on the circumstances surrounding the production of the original OED, which was published between 1884 and 1928 in a series of 125 fascicles and bound up into those …
Lyric Detachment: Two New Books Of Poetry, William Olsen
Lyric Detachment: Two New Books Of Poetry, William Olsen
English Faculty Publications
Review of "Region of Unlik" by Jorie Graham and "Perdido" by Chase Twichell.
Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory M. Sadlek
Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
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The Politics Of Language In Byron's The Island, James C. Mckusick
The Politics Of Language In Byron's The Island, James C. Mckusick
English Faculty Publications
Byron's late poem The Island: or, Christian and His Comrades (1823) has not proven especially congenial to modern sensibility; relatively little has been written about it, and most critics have tended to dismiss it as a regrettable episode in the Romantic idealization of the Noble Savage .
J.D. Salinger, Alan Blackstock
Dickinson's Dashes And The Limits Of Discourse, Paul Crumbley
Dickinson's Dashes And The Limits Of Discourse, Paul Crumbley
English Faculty Publications
From their first publication in the 1890s until the present, Emily Dickinson's poems have been read and edited as though her stylistic innovations were imperfect attempts to convey the thoughts and feelings of speakers with fixed, unified identities. Because Dickinson's poetry consistently refuses to cooperate in this project, critics intent on imposing an aesthetics of coherence have tended to step back from Dickinson's work, blurring the details of individual poems while identifying familiar voices and dominant speaking selves in the corpus as a whole. As Margaret Dickie puts the critical situation in "Dickinson's Discontinuous Lyric Self," the apparent disjunction of …
An Interview Of Paule Marshall, Daryl Cumber Dance
An Interview Of Paule Marshall, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
This Interview was conducted at the home of Paule Marshall in Richmond, Virginia, on June 14, 1991. Much of our discussion focused on Ms. Marshall's recently completed novel, Daughters, published this fall by Atheneum, which she characterizes here as "perhaps my most personal novel." There are, of course, frequent references to her earlier works, which include Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), Soul Clap Hands and Sing (1961). The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969), Praisesong for the Widow (1983), and Reena and Other Stories (1983).
Teasing Tales And Tit(Bit)S, Daryl Cumber Dance
Teasing Tales And Tit(Bit)S, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
Collection of African-American folklore from Shuckin' and Jivin' by Daryl Dance.
"He's Long Gone": The Theme Of Escape In Black Folklore And Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance
"He's Long Gone": The Theme Of Escape In Black Folklore And Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
Throughout their experiences in this country, certain segments of the Black population have viewed themselves as enslaved, whether they were chattel owned by slaveowners prior to emancipation, whether they were impressed into peonage and forced to work on white plantations and in chain gangs after slavery, whether they were victims of sharecropping systems that virtually reenslaved them during the twentieth century, whether they were the repressed and disfranchised and persecuted in Southern Jim Crow towns throughout the first half of the twentieth century, whether they are those trapped by unemployment and poverty today, or whether they are among the Blacks …