Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 1987"

Men in Feminism

Abstract: Introduction. Acknowledgements. 1. Male Feminism Stephen Heath 2. Men in Feminism: Men and Feminist Theory Paul Smith 3. Men in Feminism: Men and Feminist Theory Stephen Heath 4. Demonstrating Sexual Difference Andrew Ross 5. Men in Feminism: Odor di Uomo or Compagnons de Route? Alice Jardine 6. Walking the Tightrope of Feminism and Male Desire Judith Mayne 7. A Man's Place Elizabeth Weed 8. Femmeninism Peggy Kamuf 9. No Question of Silence Andrew Ross 10. A Double Life (Femmeninism II) Peggy Kamuf 11. Dreaming Dissymmetry: Barthes, Foucault and Sexual Difference Naomi Schor 12. French Theory and the Seduction of Feminism Jane Gallop 13. Critical Cross-Dressing: Male Feminists and the Woman of the Year Elaine Showalter 14. Response Terry Eagleton 15. Elaine Showalter Replies 16. Man on Feminism: A Criticism of his Own Nancy K. Miller. A Criticism of One's Own Denis Donoghue 17. Men, Feminism: The Materiality of Discourse Cary Nelson 18. in any event... Meaghan Morris 19. In, With Richard Ohmann 20. Women in the Beehive: A Seminar with Jacques Derrida 21. Reading Like a Man Robert Scholes 22. Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism Craig Owens 23. Envy: or With My Brains and Your Looks Rosi Braidotti 24. A Conversation Alice Jardine and Paul Smith. Notes. Contributors.

James I and the politics of literature : Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and their contemporaries

Abstract: List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Authorities 2. State secrets 3. The theater of conscience 4. The Roman actor 5. Social texts, royal measures Tailpiece Notes Index.

Milton's 'Lycidas': The Tradition and the Poem@@@The Dividing Muse: Images of Sacred Disjunction in Milton's Poetry@@@Milton, Poet of Duality: A Study of Semiosis in the Poetry and the Prose@@@'Paradise Lost' and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms

Abstract: This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Sprachgeschichte. Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung

Abstract: This second edition of the handbook Sprachgeschichte (History of Language) is an extended revision of the first edition, which was published in 1984 and 1985. The second edition correlates with the first while adding an expanded dimension to its scope. Continuity with the first edition is reflected in the linguistic-theoretical and methodical orientation, the basis of the arrangement of contents, and the order of chapters. The second edition of Sprachgeschichte emphasizes: the genealogy and the typology of German language, including all its varieties; German language as an European language and the aspects of a European language history; tendencies in changes of the German language since the middle of the twentieth century; the distinction between pragmatic and sociological aspects of language history on the one hand and structural aspects on the other; the role of regional language history; the establishment of a literary language history; the formation of German language borders, which allows a complete mapping of German language borders dating to the times of Old High German.

On Gender and Writing@@@A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: The Writer as Heroine in American Literature@@@Comedy and the Woman Writer: Woolf, Spark, and Feminism

Abstract: 'This attractive and engaging work begins with a consideration of the sometimes dark, but profound comedy of Virginia Woolf, proceeds to an appreciation of the neglected humorous fiction of Muriel Spark, and concludes with a final chapter on that kind of 'Feminist Comedy' that celebrates a 'radically overturned world, a world in which Orlando shrugs off civilization after civilization' - \"Journal of Modern Literature\". Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty - perhaps the impossibility - of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women.\"Comedy and the Woman Writer\" responds to both these concerns of recent criticism: feminist literary theory and theories of comedy. Judy Little develops a critical apparatus for identifying feminist comedy in recent fiction, especially the radical political and psychological implications of this comedy, and then applies and tests her theory by examining the novels of Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark. Despite recent scholarly attention to Woolf, the profound comedy of her work has been largely overlooked, and the comic fiction of \"Spark\" has seldom had the responsible and attentive criticism that it deserves. The introductory chapter draws upon anthropology and sociology, as well as literary criticism and the fiction of feminist writers such as Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Monique Wittig, to define a modern feminist comedy.Four central chapters then explore the implications of this comedy in the novels of Woolf and Spark. Little distinguishes between, on the one hand, several varieties of traditional comedy and satire and, on the other, the festive or 'liminal' comedy to which feminist comedy belongs. Both Woolf and Spark mock centuries-old mythic patterns and behaviors deriving from basic social norms, as well as the values emerging from these norms. It is one thing, the author points out, to find 'manners' amusing, to scourge vices, or to mock the follies of lovers; it is a much more drastic act of the imagination to mock the very norms against which comedy has traditionally judged vices, follies, and eccentricities.While the comedy of Woolf and Spark has some precedent in festive or liminal celebrations, during which even basic values and behavior are abandoned, feminist comedy displays its radical nature by implying that there is no resolution to the inverted overturned world, the world in revolutionary transition. The final chapter considers briefly, in the light of the critical model of feminist comedy, the work of several other twentieth-century writers, including Jean Rhys, Penelope Moritmer, and Margaret Drabble. The presence of radical comedy in the fiction of these and other writers suggests the need for continuing attention to the theory of feminist comedy proposed in this study. Judy Little is an associate professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and the author of \"Keats as a Narrative Poet: A Test of Invention\" (1975), also published by the UNP.

The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932

Abstract: This book examines the transformation of English literary criticism which underlies the study of English literature today, focusing on the social objectives of the pioneer critics and educationalists who established modern English studies. In particular, he discusses their view of literary culture as a civilizing influence capable of reconciling class conflict, and their concern for its preservation in the face of the new dangers of \"mass society\": advertising, pulp fiction, and cinema.

Gabriel García Márquez : new readings

Abstract: Introduction Bernard McGuirk 1. Characterisation in the early fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Richard Cardwell 2. Beware of gift-bearing tales: reading 'Baltazar's Prodigious Afternoon' according to Marcel Mauss Eduardo Gonzalez 3. The body as political instrument: communication in No One Writes to the Colonel Rene Prieto 4. Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude Edwin Williamson 5. Translation and geneaology: One Hundred Years of Solitude Anibal Gonzalez 6. The humour of One Hundred Years Solitude Clive Griffin 7. On 'magical' and social realism in Garcia Marquez Gerald Martin 8. Aspects of narrative structure in The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother Mark Millington 9. Language and power in The Autumn of the Patriarch Jo Labanyi 10. Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a Death Foretold Bernard McGuirk 12. A prospective post-script: apropos of Love in the Times of Cholera Robin Fiddian The solitude of Latin America: Nobel address, 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Richard Cardwell Select bibliography John Wainwright Index Richard Cardwell.

German : a linguistic history to 1945

Abstract: This is the first history of German to bridge the gap between 'handbook' level and the more specialized work available only in articles. It offers students and teachers a treatment of the subject that is up to date, comprehensive and stimulating. After an initial discussion of problems of language change and theoretical approaches (structuralist, generative and sociolinguistic) the author proceeds to integrate internal and external linguistic history by using the novel technique of perspective shift: a different level of language is used to illustrate each period up to the seventeenth century. Thus the first chapter deals with the pre-German background and Chapter II analyses the phonology of this period. The third chapter treats sociolinguistic developments in later medieval German, and the fourth its morphology. The last two chapters, which concern the modern period, provide a synthesis of recent material which is not easily available. complex work published in articles. * Provides a synthesis of material on the recent history of German not available elsewhere. * Linguistic history is presented as a rewarding, stimulating, and interpretative process. * Using a new technique which makes for clarity and economy, the author illustrates each sociolinguistic period up to the seventeenth century by a different level of language.

Great Reckonings in Little Rooms: On the Phenomenology of Theater

Abstract: It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? \"Advertising the American Dream\" looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses. As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. Advertisers may only have dimly perceived the profound transformations America was experiencing. However, the advertising they created is a wonderfully graphic record of the underlying assumptions and changing values in American culture. With extensive reference to the popular media - radio broadcasts, confession magazines, and tabloid newspapers - Professor Marchand describes how advertisers manipulated modern art and photography to promote an enduring \"consumption ethic.\

Christine de Pizan: A Publisher's Progress

Abstract: In recent years there has been a welcome revival of interest in Christine de Pizan, both as author and as 'publisher', to use a deliberate anachronism. Thanks to the work of a number of scholars, we now have a clearer understanding of the part played by Christine herselfin planning and preparing the presentation copies of her works which were intended for patrons in France and abroad. The suggestion made by Charity Cannon Willard in 1965that Christine might herselfhave copied the text of the Epistre a la reine Isabelle in Paris, Bibliothcque Eationale, f. fr. 580, has recently been re-examined by Gilbert Ouy and Christine M. Reno who, in an important article, show that three scribes, P, R, and X, were responsible for a large number of the manuscripts thought to have been prepared under Christine's supervision. They argue further that the scribe X is to be identified with Christine herse1f.l The significance of the miniatures which illustrate the manuscripts of Christine's works is now much more clearly appreciated, following the publication of a number ofvaluable studies, notably by Millard C. Meiss.= The interest of art historians has tended to focus not on the earliest manuscripts which are decorated with pen-andink drawings or with relatively undistinguished miniatures but on the more ambitious volumes of high artistic quality in which Christine's works were copied from 1403or 1404 onwards. In this connexion, as Meiss recognized, the presentation copies of the Mutacion defortune are especially significant, for they mark something of a new d e p a r t ~ r e . ~ The two most lavishly illustrated of Christine's manuscripts are the large collection acquired by the Duke ofBerry in 1408 (the Duke's MS), and the still larger collection which Christine presented to Queen Isabelle of France in 141o or 141 1 (the Queen's MS). It is not surprising that these two manuscripts, and the latter above all, have attracted most attention from art historians. The Queen's MS was the subject of a detailed study by Sandra Hindman in 1983;her work provides significant new information about the physical composition of the volume and the way in which it was ~ r e p a r e d . ~ Textual studies and critical editions ofworks by Christine have also cast light on the way in which she wrote her works and prepared them for publication. The very substantial analysis of the manuscript tradition of the Epistre Othea, published in 1967 by G. Mombello, includes comprehensive descriptions of all the known

A ringing glass : the life of Rainer Maria Rilke

Abstract: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet of this century. His major achievements--the New poems, the Sonnets to Orpheus, and the incomparable Duino Elegies--had a powerful impact on European literature and have been the subject of intense scrutiny and increasing acclaim since the poet's death. Only in recent years, however, with the emergence of key documentary material, has it become possible to present the full story of Rilke's life. In A Ringing Glass, Donald Prater's aim is not to add another stone to the mounting edifice of critical interpretation, but to provide a portrait of the man hmself, and to show the background in which Rilke's extraordinary vision developed. And it is an extraordinary background. Rilke's nomadic existence led him from his birthplace in Prague through Germany, Russian, Spain, Italy, France, and finally Switzerland, He visited Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, acted for a time as secretary to Rodin, and was friend of Ramain Rolland, Leonid Pasternak, and Walter Rathenau. He was the protege of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis and the lover Lou Andreas-Salome and Baladine Klossawska (of whose son, the painter Balthus, he was an early patron). Financially and emotionally, Rilke needed these associations; yet he dedicated himself fully to his art and remained single-minded in his search for the solitude it required. In his correspondence, from which Prater draws extensively, Rilke reveals the tragic conflict between his needs as a man and his goals as a poet. "This above all," he wrote a younger colleague, "ask yourself...must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative...then build your life according to this necessity." With this comprehensive biography, readers can themselves delve deeply into the life Rilke built, a life as courageous and rare as the poetry it left behind. About the Author: Donald Prater is the author of European of Yesterday, a biography of Stefan Zweig, and his edition of the Rilke-Zweig correspondence will appear shortly in Germany. Aa major new biography of the century's greatest lyric poet .Draws extensively on Rilke's letters to present an intimate portrait"