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From: JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory[(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Stewart defines the type of metafiction at work in The Unicorn, positing that the novel is, "to some degree, an allegory of reading." Stewart shows how the metafiction in...
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From: Conradian[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Rundle analyzes “The Tale” as “a story about failure in interpretation and the attempt to arrive at meaning through the act of narration.” She suggests that the commanding...
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From: Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction
Historical Reconfigurations and the Ideology of Desire: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il gattopardo
[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Della Coletta references a letter Lampedusa wrote to a friend in which he denied that The Leopard was a historical novel. Della Coletta interprets this to mean that the work’s... -
From: Exploring Textual Action[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Lombardo seeks to demonstrate the “performative power” of film—“the type of action that works of art can develop in the mind of the receiver”—by examining portions of two...
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From: Perspectives on Contemporary Literature[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Persin analyzes four of Guillén's poems written at different times in his career, in an effort to define the poet's "evolution in his attitude to poetry and changes in his...
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From: Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Phelan discusses the novel’s “recalcitrance,” the difficulty it poses for the would-be interpreter. Phelan identifies this as a product of Conrad’s engagement with “the...
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From: Australasian Victorian Studies Journal[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Blain suggests a connection between Robert Browning’s long poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” and Beddoes’s Death’s Jest-Book, speculating that Browning’s discomfort...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date fall 2005) In the following essay, Rizzo provides an in-depth analysis of the aesthetic and socio-political content of Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow," focusing on issues of race and gender.] Although...
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From: Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Dolin focuses on Dickens's criticism of the court of Chancery and its inheritance laws as exhibited in Bleak House.] A reviewer of the first number of Bleak House anticipated...
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From:Poetry for Students (Vol. 18. )"Nothing seems more natural and universal to human beings than telling stories," J. Hillis Miller, Yale literary theorist, writes in "Narrative." Starting from this premise, he reasons that because humans have so deep a...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date fall 2003) In the following essay, Hennelly examines repeating patterns in Possession and finds them important to the understanding of the novel.] Any novel is a complex tissue of repetitions and of...
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From: Italian Quarterly[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Devivo utilizes Calvino's "Lettura di un'onda" in order to explore the various perspectives of deconstructed reality in the novel Palomar.] Deconstruction attempts to resist...
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From: Criticism[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Monsman asserts that Pater's work contains many alternative possible meanings; its ambiguities, variations, and masks defy final meaning, he concludes.] "White-nights! so you...
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From: Thomas Hardy Year Book[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Reid "attempt[s] to throw a different light on Hardy's relationship to humanist ideas of history," arguing that Hardy "holds on to the humanist belief that people can be the...
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From: English Language Notes[(essay date June 1998) In the following essay, Nash considers the use and function of folklore in Tess.] In 1957, when Richard Dorson joined with other prominent folklorists to describe the nascent study of folklore...
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From: Paideuma[(essay date spring, fall, and winter 2003) In the following essay, Hatlen discusses the influence of the poets H. D., Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens on Williams during the years 1913-1917, and Williams's ultimate...
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From: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Galperin, after summarizing other critics’ readings of book 5 of The Prelude, suggests a reading that resists “symbolic transformation” of signifiers “or their co-optation by...
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From: ATQ: A Journal of American Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture n.s[(essay date March 2003) In the following essay, Weinstock addresses the narrator's scrupulous but ultimately futile efforts to uncover the essence of Bartleby's character. Describing the story as a form of "love letter...
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From: Victorian Poetry
Prayers of Praise and Prayers of Petition: Simultaneity in the Sonnet World of Gerard Manley Hopkins
[(essay date winter 1984) In the following essay, Salmon compares the thematic and stylistic qualities of Hopkins's two major sonnet cycles, the "nature sonnets" and the "terrible sonnets." Salmon asserts that the... -
From: The Old Story, with a Difference: Pickwick’s Vision[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Wolfreys details the theoretical framework for his book-length study of The Pickwick Papers, focusing on such themes as Dickens’s rendering of the past, his insight into how...