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...Srikanth Reddy Duke University Press 2005 Srikanth ‘‘To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand Reddy Marianne Moore’s Interdisciplinary Digressions For, what tho’ his Head be empty, provided his Common- place-Book befull...

...Jeanne Heuving The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly . By McCaffery Steve . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xii , 282 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry . By Reddy...

... where description preponderates over argument suggesting that her informal and digressive style ‘‘charmed’’ readers, in part, because it seemed to allow them confidential access to her womanly feelings.10 Another reviewer’s assertion that Child’s New York letters came ‘‘so straight from her own heart...

... the book’s physical properties for different kinds of work. Whereas chapter 9 has more words per page than any other chapter in the book, chapter 10 has fewer. The action in chapter 9 is subordinated to philosophical digressions, long lists of names that seem to be selected almost at random, and stories...

.... By Steve McCaffery. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2012. xii, 282 pp. Paper, $34.95; e-book, $34.95. Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry. By Srikanth Reddy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2012. x, 192 pp. $40.95. A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural...

... in American culture gives this richly digressive book its through- line. Messenger positions Godfather narrative, which has the demotic power 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 217 of 246 of sentimental formula and the literary gravitas of epic, in a shifting ground...

...- tions.WereittobeincludedinNorthropFrye’sliterarytaxonomy,it might find itself consigned to his eclectic ‘‘other forms of fiction’’ (34), along with the playful, digressive, and metafictional writings of Rabe- lais, Joyce, and Borges. Although Aldama’s book focuses on English- language texts, the first chapter’s presentation of García Márquez’s Cien...

.... Their classical educations suggested that lengthy digressions to Roman and English history, copious sprinklings of Latin, and other varieties of circumlocution might keep upstart American propagandists at bay. Alarmed by the media blitz that Whig activists had unleashed, Myles Cooper in his 1775 pamphlet poem...

... historical novels and tales is closer to what Homi Bhabha terms a “per- formative” mode, as opposed to a “pedagogical” one.21 In other words, the digressive narrative structures of historical novels—which were roundly criticized and still retain this stigma—actualized a present, conflicted sense...

... in American ideals of abstract citizenship, they are announced in the narrative by Petry’s strategic positioning of these ideals against the harshness of Lutie’s material surroundings. These contradictions be- come most apparent during Lutie’s narrative digression to her days as a domestic worker...

... Narrative by Cristobal Silva; The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England by Sarah Rivett, 190–92. Heuving, Jeanne. Review: The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly by Steve McCaffery; Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry by Srikanth Reddy...

..., and last of all to a Philadelphia theater!’ . . . . Call this digression a preface to my story, if you please, and I will explain” (Lippard 1848, 72, 73). Reminding read- ers of the various geographies the narrative has visited over the course of previous chapters, the narrative folds over on itself...

... bother about such shabby treatment? When he did leave for Harvard, there were a few letters in Duke publications charging that the move proved Gates had used Duke for his own careerist purposes. I digress somewhat by repeating that shameful episode in my uni- versity’s history, but I do so...

..., the final part of this article circles back to The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian . Narrative digression from confessional to episodic form here dilates ecstatic temporality around the voice of another life—a life whose exteriority to the present at once foils the ascription of autological subjecthood...

... this sensitivity in his work and at other times simply illustrative of it; this is why his lengthy and rarely consistent philosophical digressions are so often marginalized by critics except as, at best, an addendum to naturalist...

..., the novel is not fragmented but comprehensive, resembling in its plot trajectory an integrated body rather than a split and broken consciousness. The Guardian Angel contains a tendency to digression, but because it takes the marriage plot as its template, conclusion and completion are also paramount. Thus...

... of these novels also incorporates digressions on political and social issues such as sexual mores, slavery, Indian removal, and dueling, all while directly addressing aesthetic questions. Yet these works—their narrative incoherence, their bombastic style, their philosophical digressions...

... as well as the digressions from that attention. This essay argues that while Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge and Elleanor’s Second Book reveal a complex dynamic common in jointly produced antebellum texts, they illustrate a white woman’s efforts to engage oppositional discourses...

... incorporates a number of seem- ingly unrelated references that occasionally read as unnecessary digressions from the book’s larger argument. This is particularly true in her first two chapters. Richardson seems to hit her analytical stride in chapter three, however, when she discusses...

... studies than either Murray or Ikard; throughout the volume, her analysis incorporates a number of seem- ingly unrelated references that occasionally read as unnecessary digressions from the book’s larger argument. This is particularly true in her first two chapters. Richardson seems...