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100 Law Reviews Now Publishing Through Bepress Digital Commons, Peter Goodwin
100 Law Reviews Now Publishing Through Bepress Digital Commons, Peter Goodwin
Peter J Goodwin
Over 100 law reviews and journals are now publishing and archiving through Digital Commons, marking a new milestone in the movement toward open-access legal scholarship.
The Man In The Text: Desire, Masculinity, And The Development Of Poe's Detective Fiction, Peter J. Goodwin
The Man In The Text: Desire, Masculinity, And The Development Of Poe's Detective Fiction, Peter J. Goodwin
Peter J Goodwin
This article finds the kernel of Poe's detective fiction in his investigations into the construction of "gentlemanliness" that he began at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. As precursors to Poe's tales of ratiocination, "The Man That Was Used Up" and "The Man of the Crowd" train the reader not to expect a satisfying conclusion to the mystery surrounding masculinity that the author has woven. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the homoerotic desire to apprehend an integral masculine subject ends in frustration bordering on the absurd. In thus undermining the American ideal of masculinity as unified, integral, impenetrable, and fraternal, Poe …
Fade To Black: The Failure Of Sacrifice In Faulkner's Light In August, Peter J. Goodwin
Fade To Black: The Failure Of Sacrifice In Faulkner's Light In August, Peter J. Goodwin
Peter J Goodwin
Faulkner's Light in August examines the vexed and volatile relationship between religion, justice, and personal and national violence. Drawing on the work of Girard, Bataille, and Mauss, I unearth the symbolic and cultural roots of sacrifice in the novel, concluding that Faulkner was deeply critical of any admixture of church and state. Faulkner depicts racial lynching as the sin of a society thirsty for vengeance, recklessly appropriating scraps of both religious sacrifice and secular justice, and hence unable to realize the peace-restoring aims of either tradition.