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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
The Devaluation Of Consent In The Rape Of Lucrece, Anisa Call
The Devaluation Of Consent In The Rape Of Lucrece, Anisa Call
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Editors' Note Fall 2018, Byu Criterion
Editors' Note Fall 2018, Byu Criterion
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Contents Page Fall 2018, Byu Criterion
Contents Page Fall 2018, Byu Criterion
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Front Matter Fall 2018, Byu Criterion
Front Matter Fall 2018, Byu Criterion
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Three Books, Three Stereotypes: Mothers And The Ghosts Of Mammy, Jezebel, And Sapphire In Contemporary African American Literature, Christine E. Eck
Three Books, Three Stereotypes: Mothers And The Ghosts Of Mammy, Jezebel, And Sapphire In Contemporary African American Literature, Christine E. Eck
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
The stereotypes of Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire are still being dealt with in contemporary African American literature. In the representation of black mothers, nonfiction is ideal to portray mothers who do not represent these stereotypes; fiction is ideal to favorably represent mothers who embody some aspects of these stereotypes. Jezmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, Margo Jefferson's Negroland, and Tracy K. Smith's Ordinary Light are used as case studies.
The Fluid Pastoral: African American Spiritual Waterways In The Urban Landscapes Of Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Maren E. Loveland
The Fluid Pastoral: African American Spiritual Waterways In The Urban Landscapes Of Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Maren E. Loveland
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
In 1921 Langston Hughes penned, “My soul has grown deep like the rivers” in his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Hughes 1254). Weaving the profound pain of the African American experience with the symbolism of the primordial river, Hughes recognized the inherent power of water as a means of spiritual communication and religious significance. Departing from the traditional interpretation of the American pastoral as typified by white poets such as Robert Frost and Walt Whitman, the African American poets emerging from the Harlem Renaissance established a more nuanced pastoral landscape embedded within urban cultures, utilizing water in particular as …
How Drag Culture Resolves Tensions In Victorian Shakespearean Cross-Dressing; Or, Slay, Feste, Slay, Isaac Robertson
How Drag Culture Resolves Tensions In Victorian Shakespearean Cross-Dressing; Or, Slay, Feste, Slay, Isaac Robertson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
In 2017, Madame Le Gateau Chocolat, a black drag queen, sashayed onto the stage of the Globe theater to portray Feste in Emma Rice’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. This bold move not only gave anxiety to its investors (eventually leading to the stepping down of Emma Rice), but also raised questions about the validity of drag performance within Shakespeare plays. Shakespeare has historically been inseparable with traditional cross-dressing (both in performance and in the narrative itself), although the relationship has not always been cordial. In Victorian England, cross-dressing was often set equal to homosexuality or moral deviance, and …
Winter 2018 Full Issue
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
A Slowly Starving Race: Land And The Language Of Hunger In Zitkala-Ša’S "Blue-Star Woman", Adam R, Brantley
A Slowly Starving Race: Land And The Language Of Hunger In Zitkala-Ša’S "Blue-Star Woman", Adam R, Brantley
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This paper proposes that the motif of starvation in Zitkala-Ša’s 1921 short story, “The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman,” is in fact a metaphor for the dispossession of Native American lands and its disastrous effects on Native American livelihood and culture. Though much scholarship has been done on sentimental rhetoric in Zitkala-Ša’s fiction, critics have not yet explored its connection to this the most immediate Zitkala-Ša’s concerns. This essay first unpacks letters from Zitkala-Ša’s personal archives to demonstrate her individual interest in dispossession, and then examines “Blue-Star Woman’s” ever-present language of hunger through this lens of land loss. In doing …
Bloodland: A Holistic Approach To Contemporary Reclamation Of Native Female Power, Anna Kendall
Bloodland: A Holistic Approach To Contemporary Reclamation Of Native Female Power, Anna Kendall
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Silence And Self-Harm: Understanding Unconventional Voices, Sarah Cannon
Silence And Self-Harm: Understanding Unconventional Voices, Sarah Cannon
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This essay explores the connection between silence, self-harm, and communication in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. It shows how viewing silence and self-imposed violence as modes of communication contributes to a more productive understanding of trauma and increases the opportunity for healing.
The Uncomfortable Self: Emily Dickinson’S Reflections On Consciousness, Charlotte Kupsh
The Uncomfortable Self: Emily Dickinson’S Reflections On Consciousness, Charlotte Kupsh
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems reflect a profound curiosity about the concept of the self, its limits, and its relationship to the body. While much has been written about the influence of religion on Dickinson’s poetry, few scholars have focused on the influence that prominent philosophers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, may have had on Dickinson’s work. Emerson’s arguments about the role of consciousness and subjectivity in human experience were widely circulated in Dickinson’s time, and evidence of the poet’s engagement with these issues can be seen in many of her poems. Dickinson repeatedly returns to questions about the physical …
Stepping Out Of Photographs: Stopping The Myth Of The Vanishing Native Through Reclaiming Personhood In The Edward Curtis Project, Mari Murdock
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Forum Prompt: Approaching Indigeneity, Learning Modernity, Christine Bold
Forum Prompt: Approaching Indigeneity, Learning Modernity, Christine Bold
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The Sun Dance Opera: A Call For Native Survivance, Lorin Groesbeck
The Sun Dance Opera: A Call For Native Survivance, Lorin Groesbeck
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
“Nourished By My Mother”: Zitkala-Ša And The Indian Sterilization Project, Lainey Wardlow
“Nourished By My Mother”: Zitkala-Ša And The Indian Sterilization Project, Lainey Wardlow
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Reclaiming The Black Personhood: The Power Of The Hip-Hop Narrative In Mainstream Rap, Morgan Klatskin
Reclaiming The Black Personhood: The Power Of The Hip-Hop Narrative In Mainstream Rap, Morgan Klatskin
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Hip hop, as a cultural phenomenon, leverages rap as a narrative form in periods of acutely visible political unrest in the Black American community to combat pejorative narratives of Black America as revealed in the American criminal justice system’s treatment of Black Americans. Hip-hop themes were prevalent in golden-age rap of the 1980s in response Regan-era war-on-drugs policy, which severely disadvantaged the Black community and devalued the Black personhood. Hip hop used narrative to reclaim the Black personhood while it served to encourage political involvement in the Black community, urging Blacks to participate in rewriting the narrative of Black America. …
Editor's Note, Makayla Okamura And Mckay Hansen
Editor's Note, Makayla Okamura And Mckay Hansen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
'Fashionable Piety': Theological Modernism In Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall And Vile Bodies, Deirdre Murphy
'Fashionable Piety': Theological Modernism In Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall And Vile Bodies, Deirdre Murphy
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
“Sprinkled, Cleansed, And Comforted”: The Early American Jail, Jacob Johnson
“Sprinkled, Cleansed, And Comforted”: The Early American Jail, Jacob Johnson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Voluntary And Involuntary Isolation In Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Jessica Pope Mudrow
Voluntary And Involuntary Isolation In Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Jessica Pope Mudrow
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The Shadow's Symphony: Archetypal Awakening In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, Rebekah Hood
The Shadow's Symphony: Archetypal Awakening In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, Rebekah Hood
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Conversation In Woman In The Nineteenth Century: A Tool To Prepare Units For Union, Camille Pay
Conversation In Woman In The Nineteenth Century: A Tool To Prepare Units For Union, Camille Pay
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
On Symbols And Shadows: Flannery O'Connor's Jungian Concepts Of Grace, Joshlin Sheridan
On Symbols And Shadows: Flannery O'Connor's Jungian Concepts Of Grace, Joshlin Sheridan
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
A Phantasmagoric Fairy Tale: “Zerinda” And The Doubling Of Wonder, Conor B. Hilton
A Phantasmagoric Fairy Tale: “Zerinda” And The Doubling Of Wonder, Conor B. Hilton
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.