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From: Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Bate examines King Lear in the intellectual contexts of Erasmus and Montaigne, suggesting that the play mirrors the shared view of these humanist writers that wisdom is to be...
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From: Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Kroeber stresses the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to an ecologically oriented literary criticism, noting especially the need for an understanding of scientific...
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From: Teaching English in the Two Year College[(essay date September 2002) In this essay, Byrne, a college literature professor, structures a lesson plan based on the multiple tellings of the Japanese Canadian internment experience offered in Obasan. While Byrne...
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From: Publications of the Modern Language Association[(essay date October 1992) In the following essay, Aizenberg addresses the differences between actual history and common beliefs, and discusses the concept of embellished history in historical novels by Gabriel García...
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From: Borrowers and Lenders[(essay date fall/winter 2006) In the following essay, Aune views the divisive critical reaction that greeted Will in the World as evidence of the tension between popular studies of Shakespeare and academically oriented...
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From: Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques[(essay date fall 1992) In the following essay, Mahoney asserts that in The Disciples at Saïs--also translated as The Novices of Sais--and Heinrich von Ofterdingen Novalis imparts views on nature and science that differ...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date fall 1996) In the following essay, Stevenson explores the nature of sequels in children's literature through a study of The Wind in the Willows and its sequel The Willows in Winter by William Horwood.]...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Johnson contends that Aschenbach's character in Death in Venice "issues from a distinct aesthetic history and ... that history in turn determines Aschenbach's attempt to...
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From: Criticism[(essay date fall 1999) In the following essay, Cohen contends that Measure for Measure begins as a romantic comedy and ends as a monarch play. The critic maintains that these two incompatible genres result in the play's...
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From: Victorian Poetry[(essay date winter 2003) In the following essay, Ryan provides a general survey of scholarship devoted to Clough's work, paying particular attention to the resurgence of critical interest in his poetry during the...
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From: English Literary Renaissance[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Lamb discusses Clifford as a "split subject"--an aristocratic heir as well as a woman who refused to be subordinated to male authorities.] One of the most significant...
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From: Shakespeare’s Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Smith analyzes The Comedy of Errors in the context of its first recorded performance, which took place in 1594 at Gray’s Inn, one of the four Inns of Court, legal societies of...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Johnson explores Death in Venice in the context of the German tradition of aesthetic philosophy and criticism, noting that Aschenbach approaches Tadzio primarily as an...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe present article intends to show how the bi-partite structure of Henry James's The Golden Bowl makes it possible for the author to recycle its discourse through a strategy of revisionism. With the emergence of new...
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From: Afroeurope@n Configurations: Readings and Projects[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Giommi notes the parallels between black British literature and that of younger Italian authors who deal with migration. In particular, she focuses on how Levy’s Small Island...
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From: Florida Studies: Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association
Species Muck, Floating Sanitoria: Deconstructing and Historicizing Lanier’s ‘A Florida Ghost’ (1877)
[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, originally delivered at a conference in 2007, Reiner takes a new historicist approach to deconstruct Lanier’s poem “A Florida Ghost” (1877), as well as other writings related... -
From: Uses of History: Marxist, Postmodernism and the Renaissance[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Jardine offers a feminist/new historicist reassessment of Gertrude's guilt in marrying her murdered husband's brother in Hamlet.] Ham. Madam, how like you this play?...
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From: Raritan[(essay date fall 1998) In the following essay, Mikics examines the dichotomy between poetry and politics in A Midsummer Night's Dream and contends that Shakespeare makes a claim "for poetry in the face of power."]...
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From: CEA Critic[(essay date spring and summer 2005) In the following essay, Bates discusses Keats's modification of Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" in his 1818 poem "Fragment: Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow," sometimes...
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From: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature[(essay date June 1999) In the following essay, Tsomondo analyzes the narrative and dramatic strategies of Othello, concentrating on the construction of Othello as "Other" in terms of its implications within the play and...