... resentment: What is it like to be born in a place and to live there more or less forever, to know that you are of it?” -Edward W. Said‘ THE DYNAMICS OF EXILE AND DESIRE: NARRATIVE FORM AND MEANING...

... Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Vol. 1, The Poetry of Desire (1749-1 790). By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xx + 807 pp. $37.50. As the inventor of the historicized autobiography that sets the inner life in the context of the outer life and times, Goethe has left his...

..., rather different study. A. S. G. EDWARDS University of Victmk B@we Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Faction. By J. PAULHUNTER. New York: Norton, 1990. xxv + 421 pp. $25.00. Desire and Tmth: Functions of Plot...

.... By Susan J. Napier. Council on East Asian Studies, no. 33. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. viii + 258 pp. $28 .oo. Visions of Desire: Tanizaki’s Fictional Warlds. By Ken K. Ito. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991. viii + 305 pp. $35.00. What logic might...

... literature at all, 242 and was especially vexed that I planned to incliidc CJnck’fhnL’\ (iilnn and the 1959 Lana Turner version of Zmztntton of I recognized that her aversion derived primarily from her desire to shield another African American femi- nist scholar from the racist naiveti that she...

... of the Statue of Liberty and Ida B. Wells-Barnett are forthcoming in Journal of American Culture and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers . “The Burden of Reflecting”: Effort and Desire in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz Simone Weil Davis On the cocktail...

... and literature he has published Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality (1994) and has a forthcoming edition of James VI (I)'s political works, The True Law of Free Monarchies and Basilikon Doron . “Tis Like I Cannot Tell What”: Desire, Indeterminacy, and Erotic Performance...

... at the 2018 Modern Language Association annual meeting. These pieces vividly demonstrate that Nancy Armstrong’s first book, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel , published by Oxford University Press in 1987, continues to inspire live thought. Armstrong’s book has provoked ongoing...

... had been hoodwinked was not pleasant. It did have its compensations, however. I first read Desire and Domestic Fiction while I was in college in the early 1990s—a moment when, despite important inroads made by feminisms of color, the sex wars, and queer theory, Shakespeare’s sister still loomed...

.... PAULDELANY Simon Fraser University The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity From Dickens to Joyce. By PHILIPM. WEINSTEIN.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xiv + 310 pp. $32.50. One of the many pleasures in reading this fine study of the nineteenth...

... Literature . Going Mundial : What It Really Means to Desire Paris Jaime Hanneken n The World Republic of Letters  Pascale Casanova proposes to read mod- Iern literary history on a global scale through the movement and defi- nition of literary capital as it circulates independently...

...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...

...Thomas Carmichael Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction . By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxviii + 320 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Thomas Carmichael is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He...

...Vin Nardizzi Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens . By Rebecca Bushnell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 198 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Vin Nardizzi is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University. His dissertation considers...

...Alexander Pettit Abstract During an eleven-year period that began in 1913 with the composition of his first play, Eugene O’Neill repeatedly experimented with New Comic forms. His seven “metacomedies” from this period—most focally Bread and Butter , “Anna Christie,” and Desire under the Elms —render...

... for desire and action, sin indicates the subject’s splitting by the norms that organize it. Piers Plowman , which explores the medieval split subject through formal experimentation, repeatedly encounters the demands of political, ethical, economic, and spiritual life and repeatedly problematizes all its...

...Ian Duncan Abstract Trained on the history of the novel in English, Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction also illuminates continental European developments. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship , the prototype of the nineteenth-century “novel of development” (bildungsroman), forms itself...

... and willing to recognize them. That mix of secrecy and openness was especially attractive to gay poets, since it enabled them to express their desires obliquely by writing through authors who hinted at similar experiences. Queer allusion thus offers an alternative to long-standing theories of influence...

... becoming human as a temporary letting go of his divinity; for Rossetti and Hopkins, this models a way of being and thinking in which the subject is untied from an ego desirous of control and power. Both writers consequently embraced the interdependence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Trinity...

.... For instance, while Oldtown Folks endorses Protestantism’s collaboration with North American settler colonialism, it also challenges the efficacy and desirability of the Congregational Church’s South Seas missionary work. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022...