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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Color Terms And Lexical Classes In Krahn/Wobé, Janet Mueller Bing
Color Terms And Lexical Classes In Krahn/Wobé, Janet Mueller Bing
English Faculty Publications
Many West African languages lack a separate category of adjectives; Krahn and Wobé are also said to lack this lexical class. However, an examination of color terms in the Gborbo dialect of Liberian Krahn reveals a class of words which are neither nouns or verbs After describing the syntactic behavior of nouns and verbs and color nouns and verbs, it is shown that a third class of color words must be considered adjectives. The data supports proposals by Givón and Dixon that, universally, lexical categories are semantically based.
William Blake And The Language Of Adam By Robert N. Essick, James C. Mckusick
William Blake And The Language Of Adam By Robert N. Essick, James C. Mckusick
English Faculty Publications
Review by James C. McKusick. William Blake and the Language of Adam is a welcome addition to our knowledge of the Romantic preoccupation with the mystery of linguistic origins, and it seems destined to become a model of bold, incisive, and carefully researched scholarly analysis of literary and artistic creation from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Essick's impeccable command of Blake's poetry and visual art is complemented by an extensive knowledge of the history of linguistics and an open-minded (yet critical) understanding of current issues in semiotics, phenomenology, and post-structuralist literary theory. William Blake and the Language of Adam provides an …
The 'Vanity Fair' Of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, And The East In The Ladies’ Bazaar, Gary Dyer
The 'Vanity Fair' Of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, And The East In The Ladies’ Bazaar, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Dandy And The Fogy: Thackeray And The Aesthetics/Ethics Of The Literary Pragmatist, Robert P. Fletcher
The Dandy And The Fogy: Thackeray And The Aesthetics/Ethics Of The Literary Pragmatist, Robert P. Fletcher
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Power Behind The Pronoun: Narrative Games In Calvino's If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler, Inge Fink
The Power Behind The Pronoun: Narrative Games In Calvino's If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler, Inge Fink
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Against Genre/Theory: The State Of Science Fiction Criticism, Carl D. Malmgren
Against Genre/Theory: The State Of Science Fiction Criticism, Carl D. Malmgren
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Laughter, Game, And Ambiguous Comedy In The South English Legendary, Gregory M. Sadlek
Laughter, Game, And Ambiguous Comedy In The South English Legendary, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens
Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
The most notable element of Plato's theory of art, or at least the most memorable, is his censorship of poetry from the ideal state (Republic III: 398; X: 607). However Plato's argument is construed, it is enlightening to note the domestication to which it is invariably subjected. Since Aristotle's theory is eminently more amenable to our contemporary appreciation for art, and, in one form or another, is judged more central to the history of Western literature, Plato's attack is dispensed with after due characterization as ironic, unmanageably ambiguous, valid only in a most limited context, or excusable in the light …
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory And The Nineteenth-Century Traveler In Trans-Allegheny America: F. Trollope, Dickens, Irving And Parkman, Kris Lackey
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The American Generational Autobiography: Malcolm Cowley And Michael Rossman, John D. Hazlett
The American Generational Autobiography: Malcolm Cowley And Michael Rossman, John D. Hazlett
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Virginia Woolf's Keen Sensitivity To War: It's Roots And It's Impact On Her Novels, Nancy Topping Bazin, Jane Hamovit Lauter
Virginia Woolf's Keen Sensitivity To War: It's Roots And It's Impact On Her Novels, Nancy Topping Bazin, Jane Hamovit Lauter
English Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) War InspIred Horror In Virginia Woolf. Her antipathy toward those who cause wars is evident in her two essays, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. The impact of war on her fiction expands from a portrayal of individuals as victims of war to a vision of war that encompasses the possible annihilation of civilization. Between the Acts, Woolf's final novel, is obviously an artistic response to the threat posed by World War II. However, a close examination of her works reveals, to a surprising degree, her early and persistent preoccupation with the consequences of war, …
Women And Revolution In Dystopian Fiction: Nadine Gordimer's July's People And Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Nancy Topping Bazin
Women And Revolution In Dystopian Fiction: Nadine Gordimer's July's People And Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
Nadine Gordimer's July's People (1981) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) are both dystopias, nightmare visions of the future. Both of the worlds depicted come into being because of revolutionary coups. However, in both cases, the revolutions were in progress long before the actual takeovers, and there were opportunities for citizens to have prevented these dystopian situations from coming to pass. Yet, because changing the direction of political events requires energy, solidarity, bravery or at least some self-sacrifice, most citizens are reluctant to become involved. Nadine Gordimer and Margaret Atwood understand this attitude because they have felt that way …
Winter Geese [Poem], Jonas Zdanys
Marge Piercy's Small Changes: Welcome To The Sexual Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin
Marge Piercy's Small Changes: Welcome To The Sexual Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
Marge Piercy's novel Small Changes is encyclopedic in its incredibly detailed, all-encompassing feminist analysis of female and male behavior in the late 60's and early 70's. The behavior of the younger generation is compared and contrasted with that of their parents. The overall impression given by the novel is that, despite the very different life-styles of the two generations, very little change has, in fact, occurred. At the end of the novel, sexism prevails and no significant threat to male control of the power structure has developed. From examination of the title, Piercy seems to place her emphasis not upon …