...Janice Ho This essay situates Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses within the historical context of a politics of extremity that was mobilized by ethnic migrants in postwar Britain in their struggles against racism. Such a politics—characterized by the discourses of war, militancy, rioting, and heat...

... run counter not only to assumptions that are commonly made in the practice of political criticism of literature, but also to basic features of our ordinary engagement with fictional discourses. The essay then examines the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses , a controversy...

... assigned to the realm of verse, even if its medium is prose). Most of the canonical specifications of the novel ( Ian Watts 's “formal realism,” for example) work with a similarly defining opposition. But it is surely the case that any such dichotomy simplifies the diversity of the novel's representational...

... Edward's room some fragments of irregular verse, which he appeared to have composed under the influence of the agitating feelings occasioned by this sudden page being turned up to him in the book of life. The doctor . . . communicated this treasure to Aunt Rachael, who, with her spectacles dimm'd...

... in novels that we tend to forget that it wasn’t inevi- table: ancient novels were certainly in prose, but the Satyricon, for instance, has many long passages in verse; the Tale of Genji has even more (and they are crucial, as hundreds of tanka poems stylize sadness and longing throughout the story...

... of the nineteenth-century collection of Oriya popular devotional verses by Bhima Bhoi known as Stuti Chintamoni and Bhajan Mela , Mangharam focuses on the transactions between the oral recitations of the verses, dhuni , and the patterns of the written verse form in the Chintamoni manuscript—forty line poems...

... (New York: Routledge, 19991, pp. 243, paper, $24.99. Salman Rushdie's The Satanzc Verses, a novel that appeared after a decade of Thatcherism, appeals for a return to Victorian values, and a deluge of English "heritage films" and "Raj Revivalism," has the distinction of having inaugurated...

... or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, toward the English Channel, without the benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky. —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) An unforgettable image on the printed page: the plummet...

... of egalitarian politics constituting Keats's verse. Keats's affirmation of negative capability refutes the traditional hierarchy in which only some are born to noble action and words and the many to mere existence. By refusing poetic individualism and annulling the difference between activity and reverie...

...-note . 2 vols . London: n.p., 1770 –71. Brown , Tom , . Commendatory Verses: or, A step Towards A Poetical War betwixt Covent Garden and Cheap-side . By Several Hands. London: n.p., 1702 . Coventry , Frances . The History of Pompey the Little; or, The Adventures of a Lap-Dog...

... to modern tragedy), not to mention that while his novels superficially follow conventions of nineteenth-century realism, many also challenge such conventions in varying ways. Additionally, he invented more verse forms than any other English language poet. Because Keen investigates form—point of view...

... between Yerby and Richard Wright, who Jarrett rightly sees as the dean of African American literature of the day. Must black poets write exclusively in what white litterateurs considered “black verse”? Dunbar’s resistance to this sort of pigeonholing structured his relations with William Dean...

... describes the polar world, inhabited by Bear-men and Fish-men and so forth, in the terms of contemporary natural description. Similarly, her 1653 volume of scientific verse, Poems and Fancies , includes defamiliarized descriptions of an atomic universe, including a charming verse on the atomic worlds...

..., though, the autodidact “Ettrick Shepherd” might have found it harder to bear the oblivion that followed derision. In very short order after his death in 1835 (he was born in 1770), Hogg’s best-known work was butchered and bowdlerized, and much of his prose and verse simply vanished from print...

... of comparative literature at Yale. His novel, The First Verse, won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His book on queer conceptions of the family and narrative form in the modernist novel is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2011. KEVIN A. MORRISON is assistant professor of English...

... Elliot’s “The Lifted Veil” (1859), “a wave of telegraphic fiction by mainstream authors” in the 1860s and 1880s (27), and Henry James’s In the Cage (1898). Well versed in critical accounts of literary realism, Menke forges telegraphic realism as its dynamic Victorian expression, “an analog cultural...

... of the Scholars of Winchester College, and All Other Devout Christians . London , 1695 . King R. W. “Verse and Prose Parallels in the Work of Thomas Hardy.” Review of English Studies 13 . 49 ( 1962 ): 52 – 61 <doi:10.1093/res/XIII.49.52> . Laird J. T. The Shaping of Tess...

..., for example, “stands at a triple intersection” of theater, novel, and theory, a place where the representation of Hamlet arrives fresh from its travels through Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and Coleridge’s lectures on literature (46). When Arac cites Wordsworth’s verse play The Borderers, it is to invoke...

... or begin- ning graduate students. Still, Brantlinger’s trademark clarity and the wonderful richness of the range of reference will make the volume a pleasure for scholars versed in the field as well as those coming to it from related interests elsewhere. Chapter 1, “Exploring the Terrain,” opens...

...-by-point attack" on the popular songs, lewd verse, and sensational adventure and crime stories that chapbooks typically included.* More's tracts set the initial generic standard for didactic religious fiction. One of her longer stories, The Shepherd of Salisbziry Plain, displays...