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From:College Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe ramifications of authorship, and the compensation and status that it derives, may be the most significant issue in the post-breakup lives of the Beatles--excepting, of course, John Lennon's murder in December 1980...
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From:Style (Vol. 42, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedIn his book, Literary Darwinism, Professor Carroll observes that "the professional advantages of poststructuralist doctrine should be obvious. It enables literature professors to adopt a prefabricated critical stance...
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From:Style (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn The Pragmatics of Insignificance, Cathy Popkin explores the fiction of Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Nikolai Gogol in an effort to reveal their motives for obfuscating conventional notions of plot and...
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From:Style (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDrawing upon the terminology of Jerome Bruner and James Olney's life-writing theories, this essay traces the literary nuances of the Beatles' musical canon in terms of their historical and biographical components. In...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCritics consistently neglect to consider the crucial place of the family in E. M. Forster's novel Where Angels Fear to Tread. Using the terminology of family systems psychotherapy, this essay illuminates Forster's...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs novels are about the ways in which human beings behave, they tend to imply a judgment of behavior, which means that the novel is what the symphony or painting or sculpture is not--namely, a form steeped in morality....
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs parables of human nature, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex act as a duet of adaptationist behaviour in which Detroit--arguably one of the hubs of the American Dream--operates as the fulcrum and the events of August...
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From:Style (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFour hundred ninety-three recently published monographs treat critical theory: specifically semiotics, narratology, rhetoric, and language systems; postmodernist criticism and deconstruction; reader-response and...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDespite the publication of numerous essays that explore Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) in terms of its many intriguing narratological, aesthetic, comedic, and temporal aspects, the scholarship regarding...
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From:Style (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Baker, Elaine Treharne, and Helen Lucas. The English Association: One Hundred Years On. Leicester: The English Association, 2006. vii + 136 pp. $45.00. William Baker, Elaine Treharne, and Helen Lucas's The...
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From:Style (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Lone Star, John Sayles exploits the incest taboo as the vehicle for his analysis of the interconnected ethnic threads that constitute contemporary American life and the often uneasy relationships that continue to...
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From:Style (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFive hundred and seven recently published monographs treat critical theory, specifically: semiotics, narratology, rhetoric, and language systems; postmodernist criticism and deconstruction; reader-response and...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedExpensively kept, economically unsound, a spurious and useless political asset in election campaigns, racism is as healthy today as it was during the Enlightenment. (63) --Toni Morrison, playing in the dark...