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Birmingham Poetry Review 1 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

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The Dover Sole, Jay Blumenthal

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

Overnight: Jfk To Shannon, David Citino

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 10

Steve La Hara Commits A Rash Act And Regrets It Very Much, Richard Hill

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

Someone Else's Mother, Lowell Jaeger

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23

Birthday Forty-One At The Water Flume, Jack Drake

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12

Bocca Della Verità, Holly Hildebrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

Your Mother's Husband, Lowell Jaeger

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

Your Father's Wife, Lowell Jaeger

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24

Meditations On Black Raspberries, Will Wells

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 44-45

Cubists, Norma Westwood

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 46

Careers, Peter Wild

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47

Friends And Rivals, Edith Wharton's Women, Susan L. Goodman

Doctoral Dissertations

Based on primary research, my dissertation, "Friends and Rivals, Edith Wharton's Women," examines the two plots that the author used throughout her career. Her dominant plot is outlined in "Souls Belated" (1899), the tale of a women who escapes a conventionaly stifling marriage only to discover that she and her lover have no choice but to duplicate the union she has just fled. It shows the ways in which Wharton challenged but never escaped the restrictions of the marriage plot. The following year she wrote "Friends" (1900), a story that overtly articulates the subplot that I trace in her fiction. …

Musical Reverberations: Echoes Of Friedrich Schlegel And Heinrich Heine In Nietzsche's Dionysian Aesthetics., Linda Fallon Duncan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Not only did Friedrich Nietzsche acknowledge his stylistic affinity for Heinrich Heine, but both writers--despite their overt criticism of certain aspects of German Romanticism--manifest significant parallels in style with the aesthetic formulations of the Romantic theorist Friedrich Schlegel for a new direction in contemporary literature. Friedrich Schlegel's Fragment 116 of the Athenaum, for example, designates this new poetic direction as "progressive universal poetry," and characterizes it as a poetic form capable of embracing the fluctuating multiplicity of the surrounding world as well as reflecting the developing ideas and individual personality of the poet-creator. The paradoxical result is a poetry that …

Self-Referential Play Gone Wild: A Case For The "Roman Bourgeois" As Metafiction., Dianne Paula Guenin-Lelle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Roman bourgeois is a text which has resisted traditional modes of criticism, and thus it has confounded critics who simply did not know what to make of this hybrid work. It has been generally considered to be a novel which lacks coherence and literary merit, and spells the end of the cycle of seventeenth-century comic novels. This study proposes that the Roman bourgeois be considered as a metafictional text, where textual "anomalies" could be considered as "positive" attributes since they draw attention to the fictional framework and the fiction-making process of the novel. The novel operates according to the …

The Murder Of The Father: Readings In Sade, Balzac And Proust., Douglas Brian Saylor

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The "sadomasochistic homotext" is a text in which sadomasochism, homosexuality, the place of the father, and the perversion of language intersect. In the sadomasochistic homotext, a rebellious group seeks to usurp the authority of the father, through the perversion of language. Perversion, however, is constituted in language, and etymologies reveals that terms for homosexuality were created in the late Middle Ages and mid-nineteenth centuries. Medieval thought links homosexuality with heresy; the nineteenth century labels it "illness.". Plato's Aristophanes states that original humans were cut in half, and each half seeks the other. This division caused a disruption of language as …

Lessons Of The Masters: Social Tension As A Creative Necessity In The Fiction Of Hawthorne, James, And Joyce., Craig Arthur Milliman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A study of talented characters reveals that three of the most influential novelists in English dealt with the often disabling image of the artist they had inherited from their Romantic forebears by insisting on dialectical tension between the artist and society as essential to the creation of literary art. The various talented characters in Hawthorne's short fiction, such as Aylmer, Rappaccini, Oberon, the Canterbury poet, the portrait painter of "The Prophetic Pictures," the woodcarver Drowne, and Owen Warland, fail to create art unless they retain certain links with their societies of origin. This tension between artist and society appears as …

The Dark Side Of Paradise: Race And Ethnicity In The Novels Of F. Scott Fitzgerald., Felipe Smith

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

According to author and scholar Ralph Ellison, the writers of the early twentieth century (with the exception of Faulkner) adopted Mark Twain's stylistic innovations in pursuit of their personal myth instead of "recreating and extending the national myth" by continuing Twain's development of "the Negro as the symbol of man." To Ellison, these writers had capitulated to a strong current prevalent in American thought: American self-definition in racially exclusive terms. They presented as reality stereotyped portrayals of blacks and other ethnic minorities which served as "key figure (s) in a magic rite by which the white American seeks to resolve …

The Big One: Literature Discovers Aids, Shaun O'Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

Among the works discussed in this essay: An Intimate Desire to Survive, by Bill Becker; Epitaphs for the Plague Dead, by Robert Boucheron; A Cry in the Desert, by Jed A. Bryan; The World Can Break Your Heart, by Daniel Curzon; Safe Sex, by Harvey Fierstein; "The Castro," in Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Culture, by Frances FitzGerald; As Is, by William M. Hoffman; Plague: A Novel About Healing, by Toby Johnson; The Normal Heart, by Larry Kramer; To All the Girls I've Loved Before: An AIDS …

Notes Found On A Gum Wrapper, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16

Effigy, Michelle Gillett

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p. 14

Eight Of Cups, Lee Harlin Bahan

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p. 4

Tamsen Donner, John Knoepfle

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p. 29

Mrs. Henry Adams In Her Darkroom: May, 1883, Laurie Robertson-Lorent

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 35-36

Where The Blue Loops Cross, Greg Keeler

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 26-27

Photograph, 1944, Laurie Perry

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 34

Midnight Howling, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

Law And Literature: 'No Manifesto', James Boyd White

Articles

With what hopes and expectations should a lawyer turn to the reading of imaginative literature? To books and articles that purport to connect that literature in some way with the law? In particular, is "law and literature" -to which this Symposium is directed-to be thought of as an academic "field" like law and psychiatry, say, or law and economics? If so, what can it purport to teach us? If not, how is it to be thought of?

Orientalism And The American Romantic Imagination: The Middle East In The Works Of Irving, Poe, Emerson, And Melville, Dorsey Rodney Kleitz

Doctoral Dissertations

During the nineteenth century, the Orient--what we now call the Middle East--was an object of fascination for American writers and artists. Many of them made the pilgrimage to the Holy Land and traveled down the Nile. Among the American Romantic writers, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville were interested in and wrote about this region. This dissertation examines the importance the Orient had for these four writers in the context of the general nineteenth century hunger for Romantic experience.

Chapter one looks at the background of American Orientalism. The discussion includes a brief examination of …

"The Trouble I'Ve Seen": Visions And Revisions Of Bondage, Flight, And Freedom In Black American Autobiography., David Lewis Dudley

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation, an historical overview of black American autobiography from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, examines a recurring pattern and two related themes in the genre. Ever since the escaped slave narratives established bondage, flight, and freedom as the three-part pattern of their organization, black autobiographers have employed these same elements to tell their life stories. The creation of the free "I" is the pervasive theme of black American autobiography, freedom being won and the autobiographical self established through a symbolic struggle against and victory over a powerful father figure. This figure may be the paternalistic white culture in which …