...: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility . The Mind a Department Store: Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age Gail McDonald ’ve been spending a month,” Henry James wrote to a correspondent I in 1905, “in the horrific, the unspeakable, extraordinary, yet partly interesting...

...William Waters Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition . By John T. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature, 2003. 348 pp. University of Washington 2006 William Waters is associate professor at Boston University...

...Kevin Brazil Abstract The work of Don DeLillo and Philip Roth has been characterized as a turn to writing novels about lateness in a style that for both authors tends toward “less and less.” Their work manifests a relationship between lateness and style that departs both from canonical accounts...

... of a specifically academic form of capitalism, responding to and flourishing in a period of institutional crisis, tend to replicate top-down, marketized models of academic entrepreneurship in the ways we read. Departing from more widely favored models of “collaboration” and “interdisciplinarity” as solutions...

... the city as at once socially fragmented and structurally connected. Furthermore, the novel departs from classical realism in its closure; though the 2008 financial crisis is omitted from the novel, it overshadows the entire plot, and its absence emphasizes the lack of finality in the story of this phase...

..., for a method that keeps structures in view, even while focusing on details. Suggesting that structuralist methods could usefully reshape the teaching of literature now, the essay reads two novels that both depend on and depart from traditional fairy-tale patterns: Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose (1992) and Helen...

...Dora Zhang Abstract Departing from the premise that novelistic details particularize and locate characters in a sociocultural matrix, this essay examines what happens to the detail in texts that refuse certain norms of specification. The essay focuses on the French writer Anne F. Garréta’s novel...

... that our institutions have standards and expectations. They don’t. Certainly not uniform ones, across institutions or across departments within a given institution. But not even within individual departments. What about the often-alleged, increasingly widespread expectation of a book or, at leading...

... an associate professor of English at a regional public university in Indiana have in common with an endowed chair in an Ivy League literature department? What about the adjunct teaching four introductory-level writing courses at three institutions in one city (or in several)? Or, a graduate student...

... taught both Greek and English; in addition, he coached baseball and football and at one time served as dean of men. In 1913 he went to the University of Chicago for graduate study, was a fellow, became secretary to Professor John M. Manly, chairman of the English Department, and obtained his...

... languages but media. David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is coeditor of The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011) and general editor of Gateways to World Literature (2 vols., 2012). His...

... for any change in departmental/institutional makeup. The formation of theater studies programs, for instance, leads to fewer people working on and teaching drama in literature departments, with the result that scholars of novels and poems are simply not confronted, on a day-to-day basis, with the kinds...

... animal.” Spitzer’s interpretation may remove some difficulties, but at the cost of creating others: “which doth part from thine” he glosses “which now departs [must depart] from thy life-blood” ; but surely, if there is any departing of the one blood from the other, it is the fawn’s...

... paradise or in some other place equally inaccessible to man and is frequently identified with the land of the departed.15 In a story from French Switzerland belonging to a well-known marchen type (Grimm, K.H.M., No. the “singing tree” and the “bird of truth” must be fetched from the glass...

...George F. Reynolds Members of the Graduate Staff of the Departments of Language and Literature of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1945. Pp. viii + 345. $3.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 374...

... the reader with background against which to judge the running account of events appearing in each issue. The department “Foreign History” appeared every month; it was com- pounded of letters, eyewitness reports, rumors, and gossip from the capitals of Europe and the Middle East. Although always...

... the opportunity to study their native language and literature as a school subject and to use it as their medium of instruction. Permission was reluctantly granted by the Scottish Education Department as long ago as 1875, but the actual implementation of this goal has had to be secured largely...

... support of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and with additional support from Modern Lan- guage Quarterly and the University of Washington’s School of Drama, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, and College of Arts and Sciences. Modern Language Quarterly...

... with a critical practice that also acquires, through its care and devotion, “the power to materialize spirits.” (Hernandez takes an interest in departed, disembodied spirits, just as Jager and Coleman do.) “The very practice of Anglo-American literary criticism and pedagogy depends on presenting literature...

..., including those whose books I am reviewing, have departed from this habit of selecting the Wordsworthian mo- ment in Wordsworth’s poetry to try to define a pattern or structure of moments that characterizes his works. James H. Averill describes a cathartic movement from suffering to calm as “one...