...Ben Robbins This article analyzes William Faulkner’s 1951 prose drama hybrid narrative Requiem for a Nun as an adaptation of two “women’s films” that he worked on as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, The Damned Don’t Cry (completed in 1941, released in 1950) and Mildred Pierce (completed...

...Christian Haines This essay argues that William S. Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads (1983) produces a concrete utopia in response to the political reaction of the 1980s and the rise of neoliberalism. Against Margaret Thatcher's claim that “there is no such thing as society,” Burroughs...

...Michael Nicholson A critically neglected short poem that focuses on the ancient custom of stone giant building in Cumbria, William Wordsworth's “Rural Architecture” avoids the monumental permanence and transcendent universality so often associated with Lyrical Ballads . An expressly opaque “local...

...Daniel Williams This essay considers the use of “serial thinking”—an approach to representation and cognition that emphasizes repetition, enumeration, and aggregation—in the work of Thomas Hardy. Examining his first novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), it connects Hardy's approaches to serial thinking...

...Rebecca Tierney-Hynes This essay argues that William Congreve’s comedy, influenced by Lockean empiricism, intervenes influentially in the development of eighteenth-century models of selfhood. Congreve takes John Locke’s mimetic model of the mind, in which we copy and contain the afterimages...

... Euripides, Sophocles, Miguel de Cervantes, William H. Gass, and Gustave Flaubert, among others. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oklahoma 2018 genre performative speech-act theory sparagmos anagnorisis longue durée ...

...Jeffrey R. Wilson This essay theorizes a tradition in William Shakespeare’s drama involving some of his greatest and most captivating characters, including, among others, Richard III, Aaron the Moor, Shylock the Jew, Edmund the Bastard, Falstaff, Thersites, and Caliban. While they have been called...

... Blau DuPlessis's work, including Drafts (1987–2013) and Traces, with Days (2017–), readily suggests itself as a case study for thinking through a megatextual impulse in the twenty‐first‐century long poem. Though her work is plainly indebted to its modernist precursors (H.D., Pound, Williams, etc...

... places Walpole in a tradition of cosmic horror that also includes Clara Reeve, William Godwin, and Walter Scott. Yet the relationship between Lovecraft's fiction and these earlier writers of historical fiction has been more assumed than explored. Aware of history as a malleable and potentially...

...Joe Kennedy William Sansom belongs to a loose category of British novelists working around World War II and in the wake of prewar modernism who produced fictions recapitulating neither high modernism's assertive experimentation nor the 1930s retreat into social realism. While this writing failed...

... for the Nazis, William Joyce, who was nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw and executed for treason in 1946. Lord Horror is a multimedia production appearing in novels, comic books and graphic novels, music, and films. Focusing on the graphic novel Reverbstorm (2012), this article explores the dense visual and textual...

... emperor Jahangir to become the wife of Captain William Hawkins of the East India Company, and two English women, Frances Steele and Mrs. Hudson. Soon after her husband's death on the voyage to England in 1613, Mariam married another East India Company employee, Captain Gabriel Towerson. After a few years...

...William B. Covey Conrad Mark T. , Ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir . Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky , 2006 . xv , plus 248 pp. COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 352 GENRE Mark T. Conrad, Ed. The Philosophy...

...William Richey; Kevin J. H. Dettmar © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. WORKS CITED Benjamin Walter . “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical...

...William Richey Davies Ray , Waterloo Sunset: Stories . New York : Hyperion , 2000 . 256 pp. $22.95 (cloth). © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 REVIEWS Hajdu, David. Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan...

... embodiment. From Pound's Imagism and Eliot's "dissociation of sensibility" to Williams' "no ideas but in things" and the various forms of objectivism, this story of the modernist project has been well rehearsed and its philosophical grounds thoroughly discredited. However, Susan McCabe's always...

...Robert D. Aguirre © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 WORKS CITED Alamán Lucas , ed. Historia de la conquista de México . By Prescott William H. . Trans. Vega José María González de la . México : Porrúa , 1985 . Alcina Franch José . “Juan...

... by Julia Roberts) and an Englishman, William Thacker (Hugh Grant), an educated upper-middle-class owner of a struggling travel bookstore on Porta- bello Road in West London. First encountering each other when Anna wanders into William's bookstore, their blossoming romance must overcome a series...

... of New England . Sadoff Dianne . 1985 . “Black Matrilineage: The Case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston.” Signs 11 ( 1 ): 4 – 26 . Shakespeare William . 1997 . Shakespeare's Sonnets . Edited by Booth Stephen . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press...

... . Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 1994 . —. `` William Godwin's Fleetwood: The Epistemology of the Tortured Body .'' Eighteenth-Century Life 16.2 ( May 1992 ): 25 - 43 . Burke Edmund . A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . 1757 . Ed...