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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhatever our place, it has been visited by a stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough. Eudora Welty (2) "TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL SLANT" (3): these words...
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From:Leviathan (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhere, however, from disease, or the food being inappropriate, the stomach is injured by what is eaten, consciousness then becomes painful for the express purpose of warning us that mischief has been done, and we must...
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From:Leviathan (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe summer of 2003 saw a determined migration of scholars from different parts of the globe to what might be called the birthplaces of Melville's art: "Pantheistic ports" (Lahaina and Nuku Hiva), "Marquesas and glenned...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt could have been a riposte in an ongoing duel, or merely an objective appraisal of a few well-known American writers. There was probably something of both in the list of names he came up with, when, while answering...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 38, Issue 1)Ron Carlson, Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries and Remarks (Red Hen Press, March 2012) Richard Ford , Canada , a novel (Ecco, May 2012) Jorie Graham , Place: New Poems (Ecco, April 2012) Marilyn Hacker...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN the May / June issue of 1999, the journal Book posthumously published "Sisters," a short story by Andre Dubus sent to the editors two days before his death in February of that same year. Imbued with the mystique of...
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 42, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed"What are we doing about crowd control?" said the lawyer to the publicist. "It's Day of the Locust out there."--Bruce Wagner, Still Holding What looks like change is cliche perfecting itself.--James Richardson...
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From:Mythlore (Vol. 25, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedJ. R. R. Tolkien, always a very private man, was frequently irritated to receive letters suggesting "sources" or "inspirations" for The Lord of the Rings in the work of other writers. However, he was proud to...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFlannery O'Connor liked to talk about her debt to her homeland. To the surprise of many of her friends and readers, O'Connor asserted that being a Catholic writer living in the overwhelmingly Protestant South was a very...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBitter criticism of the perverse values and twisted moral behavior of nineteenth-century American society is a major undertaking in the writings of Mark Twain. Speaking in his own person, Twain often criticizes those,...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Gilmore Simms's last novel, The Cub of the Panther, was published in twelve consecutive installments in a New York magazine The Old Guard, January-December 1869. A pro-Southern magazine, it was published monthly...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMidway through Arthur Flowers' 1993 novel Another Good Loving Blues, Zora Neale Hurston appears in a Memphis drugstore where Beale Street intellectuals gather. The time is the 1920s, and Hurston the character is in town...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Faulkner's novel 'Absolom, Absolom!' extends the dialogic form not only to the point of being a polyphony of the characters but to include voices from the chronologer and genealogist as well as the map-maker....
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe mystical aspects of the relationships depicted in Henry James's novel, "The Golden Bowl," are explored, focusing on the relationships among the characters Maggie, Amerigo, Charlotte and Adam. Topics include sexual...
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From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJack London's 1904 novel 'The Sea-Wolf' deals with the position of the artist in society. London also redefines gender roles during the narrative about Humphrey Van Weyden's emergence as a representative man. The novel...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMasks have long been employed by creative artists to impart certain unpleasant truths that might not otherwise be heard. Nowhere is this masking more apparent than in the literature of African-American writers, who of...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5795)The first reference to Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the TLS came in January 1965 in an article by J. M. Cohen on the "new wave" of Latin American fiction. "Until the present decade the Spanish American novel was, at its...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn April 1957, during one of the many class conferences in which he participated while writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, William Faulkner was asked about the Oedipal dimension of Light in August. The...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEven before the start of World War I, Walter Lippmann had already announced that "the world has been altered radically" (9). Lippmann's assertion rested on the tremendous changes he observed everywhere in his American...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"I wrote `Their Eyes Were Watching God' in Haiti. It was dammed up in me, and I wrote it under internal pressure in seven weeks. I wish that I could write it again." Long out of the literary mainstream, Zora Neale...