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From: The New York Times Book Review[Wallace reviews Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time, by Stephen Jay Gould.] Stephen Jay Gould begins this lively, scholarly book [Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date autumn 1989) In the following review, Roudiez contends that AIDS and Its Metaphors is not as cohesive as Illness as Metaphor, but contends that the new essay effectively clarifies confusing facts and...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere are two ways to approach metaphors: One emphasizes the infinite creativity of metaphor and its resistance to fixation of sense or meaning. The other one assumes that metaphor is a fairly common (and therefore...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne is ill because one doesn't live properly--can't. It's the failure to live that makes one ill. (WL 125). Medical anthropology and the history of science teach the many ways in which illness, healing, and the...
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From: Southwest ReviewWhen Ed Gentry, the narrator of James Dickey's Deliverance, stands over the corpse of the man he has killed with a bow and arrow, he waits for an impulse. “It is not ever going to be known; you can do what you want to;...
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From: Monthly Film Bulletin[(review date July 1988) In the following review, Rees discusses how the changes in film style in Deren's Meditation on Violence match the changes in the film's action.] Against a blank studio wall, a half-naked...
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From: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature[(essay date September 1994) In the following essay, Masland utilizes aspects of Luce Irigaray's theory of women's discourse to compare Ginzburg's Caro Michele and Dacia Maraini's Lettere a Marina.] Can She speak? Does...
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From: Science-Fiction Studies[(essay date November 1975) In the following essay, Watson expounds on the symbolism of the forest in two of Le Guin's works.] In the Afterword to The Word for World is Forest (WWF) Le Guin remarks that writing this...
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From: Symposium[(essay date Fall 1987) In the following essay, Melendez provides a detailed discussion of The Garden Next Door as a palimpsest. Focusing on the different narrative points of view in the novel, the dialectic between...
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From: Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures[(essay date fall 1987) In the following essay, Meléndez discusses the multiple texts and subtexts of El jardín de al lado.] To introduce the concept of palimpsest in a technological and computerized era might be...
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From: Studies in English Literature[In the following excerpt, Mann examines the importance of Wordsworth's influence on George Eliot's poem “The Legend of Jubal,” and shows that both writers consider sound a powerful metaphor for the human imagination.]...
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From: Sight and Sound[(interview date March 1992) In the following interview, Cronenberg discusses the similarities between his and William Burroughs's creative work, his use of visual imagery to reproduce metaphors onscreen, and his...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[In the following excerpt, Raines examines Yeats's later poems and argues that they contain metaphors which represent order amid chaos and which consequently unify Yeats's later work.] One of the constant themes in...
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From: Gettysburg ReviewI Thanks to court intrigue and the vacillation of Mary Tudor, half-sister to the late Edward VI, the English crown adorned the head of seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey for nine days in 1563. Eventually she was led to...
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From: Signs of Friendship: To Honour A. G. F. van Holk[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, van der Eng examines narrative aspects of "Zamost'e," particularly the interrelationship of the story's thematic concerns.] The object of this article is twofold. In the first...
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From: English Studies in Canada[(review date June 1993) In the following review of Words with Power, Kermode suggests that Frye's argument for the centrality of myth in the study of literature communicates "the true nature of myth and metaphor" as...
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From: Early American Literature[(essay date winter 1976-77) In the following essay, Smith suggests that the idea of the land survey and the image of the boundary are the central, sustaining metaphors in Byrd's Histories of the Line.] I Thus in the...
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From: Modern Language Studies[(essay date summer 1986) In the following essay, Clark explores the metaphorical and symbolic function of architecture in Cooper's The Pioneers. In Clark's view the contrasts Cooper sets up between nature and...
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From: MosaicFor the last several decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has been acclaimed as a leading “female” writer of science fiction. The term “female” seems more appropriate than “feminist” because her work, very much as in the case of...
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From: London Review of Books[(review date 4 April 1996) In the following review, Sage describes Remake as an anti-autobiography that addresses the ultimately unanswerable question: "What is an author?"] Christine Brooke-Rose's story of how this...