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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSi le masque se revele un motif capital de la litterature fin de siecle, la logique du deguisement et de la tromperie se developpe egalement dans l'environnement du texte: c'est ce que cet article se propose...
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From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 39, Issue 1)In his literary career, Hayden Carruth has been as resourceful and steadfast as the Vermont hill farmers he lived among for many years. He is a people's poet, readily understood, a tribune of our common humanity. But he...
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From:Variaciones BorgesPeer-ReviewedSome five years ago, when Mike Gonzalez, Ana Lopez and I were beginning work on what is about to be the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, we invited a noted scholar of the...
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedSteven Mufson has contended that the strikes, demonstrations, and the stamping of feet that characterized the years of Black rebellion to apartheid "were only surface signs of a more profound and long-lasting change in...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1903 A.G. Stephens, literary editor and mentor, wrote to Miles Franklin about the `bruise' scene in My Brilliant Career. `Is this your experience', he inquired. `Does it represent your own feelings? Why should the...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn adventurous novel "intermingling [literary] traditions such as historical romance, realism, allegory, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery" (Horvitz 246), and also the first African American novel featuring "both an...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 31, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedArguing for a reconsideration of Stendhal's unfinished novel, this article shows how Lamiel renders evident the tensions between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century narrative models and social contexts. Its unfinished...
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From:Joyce Studies AnnualPeer-ReviewedChamber Music prefigures Ulysses in multiple ways. (1) I explore the sweeping breadth and narrow precision of lexical selection to see how the lexemes soft and sweet (2) abound in Chamber Music and, having rearisen in...
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that Stuart fairy poetry rooted in Shakespeare's innovative representation of tiny, consumeristic fairies, attempts to indigenize new forms of elite material display. Rather than the fairies of popular...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMany women poets in 17th and 18th century England incorporated poems into their novels to publicize their poetic facility and to claim their status as poets in a society where female literary accomplishment was frowned...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe hermit who was featured in 'Tintern Abbey' has been given different interpretations. Studies show that William Wordsworth may have been interested in David Williams' 'The History of Monmouthshire,' a political,...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBreece Pancake and Alistair MacLeod's fiction focuses often on the dilemma of the coming of age experience for male characters within the regional community. The characters must decide whether to stay or leave and are...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is W. B. Yeats, in his poem "The Tower," who speaks of the "Plunge ... Into the labyrinth of another's being" (111, 113). In his case, Yeats attempts to call up from the grave the fictitious figure he had himself...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the late spring of 2013, in those rare heydays when the city of Atlanta seems uniquely alive with colors and scents, I had the opportunity to speak with the Honorable Vassilios Gouloussis, who was then Greek Consul...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 89, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAfter meeting at a short-fiction conference, Adnan Mahmutovic and Lucy Durneen began talking to one another about his childhood love of comics and his efforts to preserve them during the Bosnian War (1992-95). Durneen...
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From:Artforum International (Vol. 43, Issue 8)"ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN-CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING AT THE SCHOOL ATTENDED BY GABRIEL, OUR ELDEST SON. HE WAS FIVE YEARS...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt is an ancient, immemorial scene, and it does not take place just once, but repeats itself indefinitely, with regularity, at every gathering of the hordes, who come to learn of their tribal origins, of their origins...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)One striking feature of Susan Hill's novels is the wide-ranging diversity of the experience they depict; and another, a maturity of understanding remarkable in a writer who began publishing her work at the age of only...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAlthough Hal Porter worked in a variety of modes, it is his autobiographical trilogy and his short stories that established his reputation. The stories work through the actual experiences of his life, but the material is...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionIn Moscow from 1956 until arrest in 1965 Andrei Siniavski led a double existence as a university lecturer and literary critic, while under the pseudonym Abram Terts he was sending out to the West free-thinking essays and...