Showing papers in "South Atlantic Review in 1981"

Mr. Shandy's 'Lint and Basilicon': The Importance of Women in Tristram Shandy

Abstract: CLARA REEVE'S OBSERVATION that Tristram Shandy "is not a woman's book" presaged subsequent criticism which barely touches on the role of women in Sterne's novel1 Certainly, the Shandy males are the main focus of this novel, and the various women are presented solely from the male viewpoint; hence they are easily invoked or dismissed as it suits Tristram's whim Understandably enough, critics, when confronted with a novel in which the male narrator leaves his mother listening in suspended animation for five chapters, have generally accorded Sterne's female characters scant attention2 The more recent criticism of Ruth M

"Oure englisshe" and Everyone's Latin: The Fasciculus Morum and Gower's "Confessio Amantis"

Abstract: Argues the Confessio's Latin prose marginalia and verse headlinks are consciously used by Gower both to comment on and illuminate the English poetry. This mixture of language has some affinity with the Fasciculus Morum tradition, and may be used to clarify some of Gower's stylistic concerns. [PN. Copyright the John Gower Society. JGN 1.1]

Contemporary Southern poetry : an anthology

Abstract: Verses by contemporary Southern poets such as James Dickey, John Beecher, and Alice Walker express their thoughts on rebellion, homesickness, affection, and changing religious traditions.