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Why Austen, Not Burney? Tracing The Mechanisms Of Reputation And Legacy, Marilyn Francus

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

During the 200^th anniversary of Austen’s death in 2017, the narrative of Austen’s rise to fame and her ongoing celebrity circulated throughout modern culture. But how did this happen? When Austen died in 1817, it was not obvious that Austen would become the archetypal British woman writer. Frances Burney was far more famous in her lifetime than Austen was in hers, and Burney’s novels (particularly Evelina and Cecilia) achieved as much, if not more, critical acclaim than Austen’s works. By comparing the afterlives of Jane Austen and Frances Burney, the factors that shape legacy come into focus—and scholars …

A Case For Tolkien As Master Of The Sublime, Graham A.C. Scheper

Journal of Tolkien Research

The present article aims to reconcile Tolkien with the Literary Critics through an exploration of Tolkien's use of the sublime. First, an explanation of the sublime is given, with a summary of its evolution over the past two millennia. Subsequently, three key thrusts of the sublime's manifestation in Tolkien's work are identified: his use of depth and incompleteness, his use of vastness and grandeur, and his usage of shadows and death. Investigating Tolkien's usage of these devices in turn illuminates his skill as an artist and as an author.

"On The Bridge Between Life And Death" … A Biography Of Aisha Abdurrahman (The Beach Girl), Circles Of Silence, And The Clamor Of Questions, ِAbbas Abbas

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

The present study represents a critical and analytical approach to a feminist biography of a well-known writer in our modern Arab culture, Aisha Abdurrahman (The Beach Girl). The title of this biography is "On the Bridge between Life and Death," which she wrote soon after the death of her inspiring professor and husband, the Sheikh and the renovated scholar (Amin Al-Khuli). The study attempts to look at this biography as one of the contents of the Arabic feminist narrative reflected (shaped) by practicing autobiographical writing, which motivated the researcher to formulate fundamental interpretations of the contents of this speech via …

Multilingual Experimental Literature And Transnational Feminist Solidarities: Erín Moure And Kathy Acker, Melissa Tanti

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The impulse toward multilingual writing has arisen as a prominent trend in contemporary women’s writing. Criticism and notions of the literary have to respond to, among other things, the fact that "we live in a world where a significant portion of the population is at least partially bi or multilingual" (Camboni 34). To be responsive to the "increasing multilingualism of writers necessitates new strategies for reading the polyvocality of texts" (Eagleton and Friedman 3). This paper considers the ways multilingual writing creates, “small scale modes of listening” (Maguire xix) that tune the reader to languages, identities, and cultures under erasure. …

Mette Leonard Høeg, Editor. Literary Theories Of Uncertainty. Bloomsbury, 2021., Samantha Lepak

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Mette Leonard Høeg, editor. Literary Theories of Uncertainty. Bloomsbury, 2021. xi + 295 pp.

Stephen Ross, Editor. Modernism, Theory, And Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022., Anne Cunningham

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Stephen Ross, editor. Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 239 pp

Book Review: Understanding Alice Walker, Cindy E. Garcia-Rivas

South Carolina Libraries

Cindy Garcia-Rivas reviews Understanding Alice Walker, written by Thadious M. Davis.

نظرية التلقي وقراءة التراث العربي: تطبيقات على النقد الأدبي في العهد المريني, عبد الجليل شوقي

Dirassat

This article reflects the patterns of critical reception in Maranian critics. It shows that Moroccan literature does not allow for literary criticism due to the abundance of their western thoughts in their works. It also points out that such rejection or disappointment in readings intended to conflict with old critics in the study of monetary issues. This pattern of reception distinguished the reading of a Marinian critic who sought to develop Arab thought in general and the critical sense in particular. Arab thought is constantly evolving and the application of many ideas varies depending on the context. Therefore, the literary …

Novels Demand Critical Thinking, Zulfiya Pardaeva

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This article discusses the principles of development of modern Uzbek novels. Khurshid Dostmuhammad's "Bazar", "Donishmand Sisyphus", Asad Dilmurod's "Bird in the Steppe of Fano", Ulugbek Hamdam's "Rebellion and Obedience", "Equilibrium", Lukman Burikhan's "People in the Heat" It is emphasized that the study of comparisons with the works of new Uzbek novels should be interpreted on the basis of scientific sources created in world literature, the methods of integration, transformational, cultural, contamination, modification processes.

What We Have Learned, Max Stephan

Appalachia

An analysis of Mary Oliver’s development and influence over more than 1,000 poems.

نقد النقد: الموضوع والأهداف والمنهج, اسليمان بحاري

Dirassat

Title : Criticism of Criticism : Themes, Objectives and Method

During the twentieth century, literary criticism experienced incredible development and fruitful openness onto humanities. Literary theory scholars recovered most of its neglected facets and shortcomings. Concomitantly, literary criticism witnessed a period of turmoil and retreat. Thus, Criticism shift focus onto scrutinizing literature to understand the mechanisms of critical discourse. Ancient Arab criticism was limited to descriptive discourse, which generates questions about texts to deconstruct them. By far, criticism remains a conscious art, which adopts scientific methodology. Thus, criticism of criticism is interdisciplinary, and seeks to formulate new theoretical and methodological …

Ernest Hemingway And The “Lost Generation”, Dildora Safarova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This article is dedicated to the generation of people who understand that there is no meaning in the world. They experienced this monstrous existential state, in which what they were taught turned into some strange decay. This generation (to which Jacob Barnes belongs) is not able to look at the absurd, because it really requires amazing courage. That is why they constantly infect themselves with some ideas, some intellectual schemes, philosophical reasoning, concepts. That is, they try all the time to poison their brain with something to establish a connection with reality. That is why the characters drink all the …

Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, And Maternal Power In The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Jonathan Garren

South Carolina Libraries

Jonathan Garren reviews Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Geneva Cobb Moore.

The Development Of The Controversial Article Genre In The 20 Years Of Xx Century, Marhabo Ahadovna Khudoykulova

Scientific reports of Bukhara State University

The article analyses the development of the controversial article genre of the early twentieth century that has been little examined in literary criticism, literary process and attitude to the poet, prose writers. The problem is clarified in the example of works of Chulpan, Oybek, Fitrat. A problematic article can be in the form of a scientific-theoretical discussion or research that focuses on the poetics of a work and illuminates the intended scientific phenomenon in a monograph, based on the aesthetics of artistic creation.

The Venetian Arsenal And Dante's Poetic Purpose, Eliot Davila

Augsburg Honors Review

John Ruskin remarked that if we were to pick an "honestly studious" three or four out of every hundred of Dante's admirers, then "we should rarely find one who knew why the Venetian Arsenal was described." Indeed, the wonderfully elaborate description of the Arsenal in Inferno XXI has long posed a problem for readers of the Commedia. This paper approaches Dante's representation of the Arsenal from a new perspective and finds that a more complete understanding of the image offers readers an original insight into what can be called the poetic purpose of Dante. For clarity of presentation, the paper …

Frankenstein’S Fixations: A Psychoanalytic Evolutionary Approach To Childhood, Sexuality, And Outsiders, Kaitlin Harris

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

By using Frankenstein as a case study, my project explores readers’ and characters’ experiences with others who might appear threatening. Furthermore, I intend to apply theories from psychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology to deconstruct the ambiguity of relations with others and the self in answering: can a psychoanalytic reading of Frankenstein display how evolutionary literary criticism, sublime, and the uncanny affect and inform us about human relations. My argument has displayed how castigating a living being away from society recapitulates an evolutionary cycle of unconscious abuse which the critics, themselves, have also encountered.

La Métaphore De L'Œuvre Impossible Dans Le Roman Africain Contemporain, Josias Semujanga

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Many and varied, the figures of the book or the art are omnipresent in many literary works, and in various forms. They, sometimes, evoke the metaphor of the impossible work or the ambivalent status of the character writer in fiction. What are the functions of these figures in the narrative, and more particularly in the novel, and in the social discourse? In order to answer these questions, our study will focus on Henry Lopes' Le lys et le flamboyant, Alain Mabanckou's Verre Gasse, and Gilbert Gatore's Le passe devant soi, with occasional references to other novels to …

Anna Larpent And Shakespeare, Fiona Ritchie

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

Anna Larpent (1758-1832) is a crucial figure in theater history and the reception of Shakespeare since drama was a central part of her life. Larpent was a meticulous diarist: the Huntington Library holds seventeen volumes of her journal covering the period 1773-1830. These diaries shed significant light on the part Shakespeare played in her life and contain her detailed opinions of his works as she experienced them both on the page and on the stage in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London. Larpent experienced Shakespeare’s works in a variety of forms: she sees Shakespeare’s plays performed, both professionally and by …

Editorial In(Ter)Ventions: Comparing The Editorial Processes Of The Hebrew Bible And The Star Wars Saga, Timo Tekoniemi

Journal of Religion & Film

Canonicity and authority of one textual form over another, textual plurality, and scribal freedom in the early transmission of the Hebrew Bible have in the recent decades become prominent topics in the methodological discussions of biblical scholars. Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it has become clear that, when attempting to discern the oldest text of the Hebrew Bible, we are in need of new and better models of textual transmission that take into account all extant textual evidence. Working solely on the basis of the so-called Masoretic Text is no more methodologically tenable, especially when it comes …

On Cliché: Expression, Cognition And Understanding, Craig Jordan-Baker

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Abstract: This paper argues that cliché is not simply a problem of language and expression, but rather a cognitive problem or one of understanding. It locates several distinctive features of cliché, namely their characteristic superficiality (low informational content) and the typically low cognitive effort they require to understand. It then argues for a distinction between ‘external’ and ‘internal’ clichés, where the former are the well-known phrases commonly recognised as clichés, but the latter are not recognised as clichés but nevertheless function as clichés within a specific literary work.

Padilla, José Ignacio. El Terreno En Disputa Es El Lenguaje: Ensayos Sobre Poesía Latinoamericana. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2014. 280 Pp., Javier García Liendo

Dissidences

No abstract provided.

A Companion To Australian Aboriginal Literature Edited By Belinda Wheeler, Jose-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla

The Goose

José-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla reviews A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature, edited by Belinda Wheeler.

The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr

The Goose

Camilla Nelson reviews The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard

Relocating The Cowboy: American Privilege In "All The Pretty Horses", Maia Y. Rodriguez

Global Tides

American novelist Cormac McCarthy published the first installment of his Border Trilogy, a novel entitled All The Pretty Horses, only a decade before the turn of the 21st century. Within a few months, essays by Alan Cheuse and Vereen M. Bell would set the tone for scholarship on McCarthy's work for the decade to follow. However, in 2012 Jordan Savage revolutionized the conversation on the concept of "border" within the Border Trilogy, identifying it as an ideological myth. This paper will further Savage’s analysis using Jacques Derrida’s Deconstructionist theory in order to analyze the binaries created by the border …

‘There’S A Lot More To Ogres Than People Think’: Shrek As Ethical Fairy Tale, Eugene O'Brien

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Pondering Eternity In A Stifling Rural Setting: François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux And John Mcgahern's The Barracks, Eamon Maher

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Between The Idea And The Reality. John Broderick And The French Connection., Peter D.T. Guy

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Brendan Behan’S France. Encounters In Saint-Germain-Des-Prés., Jean-Philippe Hentz

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Idea-Making And Crises: Contradictions Between The Presentation, Argumentation And Form Of Ideas In Selected Works Of Descartes And Voltaire, Lauren Clark

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Reading The Novel: A Gothicized "Enterprise Of Health", Claire Mcgrail Johnston

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.