...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Ul Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill s Early Poetry Timothy Materer You know, this guy’s got a secret, and he’s gonna keep it. —Arthur Miller to Dylan Thomas about James Merrill...

... canines, these works succeed in writing the human ignorance of nonhuman animal worlds, but they also expose the fissure within human autobiography itself. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 alterity animal anthropocentrism autobiography modernism Anthropocentricism, in some sense...

... unity, implicative openness, and overt autobiography of Four Quartets as the culmination of a resistance to the fragmented, depersonalizing epistemological dualism that Eliot first began questioning as a graduate student. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 academic culture endnotes Four...

... for innocence and a desire for sexual knowledge within a context of repressive normalization and antihomosexual panic. The Chinese Garden is also a fictional autobiography, foregrounding Manning’s own resistance to her pre-Stonewall historical present, and her fascination with the queer past. Works Cited...

... this reductive reflex, this essay reads James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a serious exploration of biracial identity and experience. Specifically, the article argues that Johnson draws on early twentieth-century conceptions of femininity as a vehicle for rendering mainly...

... of the genre, autobiography, that most structured, and limited, their interpretations. Recent work by Oliver Harris, however, suggests the trend may finally be moving away from reading Burroughs’s texts on his terms, much less taking him at his word when he pontificates in extratextual appendages...

..., The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, his protagonist, Oscar Acosta, quits his job as a War on Poverty- funded Legal Services lawyer in East Oakland, California, dumping his law license in the wastepaper basket. His resignation precipitates his search for racial identity in Autobiography and eventual...

...- standing Comics. What has been less discussed is the source of the special relationship between graphic literature and autobiography.5 Why are so many graphic writers compelled to expose their most private secrets? Chute, in Graphic Women, implicitly and explicitly addresses the argument...

... contribution, then, is a compelling reevaluation of autobiography as a major genre of twentieth-century literature. The second scholarly contribution would be Barbour’s methodology. While he does not discuss his critical method in detail, perhaps owing to his academic background in religious rather than...

...Zachariah Pickard Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 BAI Natural History and Epiphany: Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin Letter Zachariah Pickard riting in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and, particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new...

..., Widiss’s study challenges conventional understandings of twentieth- century literary history. Drawing on a wide range of texts—two novels (William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita), two memoirs (Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Dave Eggers’s...

... – 64 . Jameson Storm . (1934) 1982 . Company Parade . London : Virago . Jameson Storm . 1937 . “ Documents .” Fact 4 : 9 – 18 . Jameson Storm . 1971 . Autobiography of Storm Jameson: Journey from the North . New York : Harper and Row . Lassner Phyllis...

...-presence and Marlow’s faith in truth produce the very loss of self in writing and sense of dislocation that would be unthinkable without any prior presence or ground. For all the power of Fordham’s insights, I am reminded of the whirli- gig described by Paul de Man in “Autobiography as De...

... (in his mind) into a period of some 10 years of extended groping between writ­ ing autobiography and reportage. This review about an “objective” real­ ist that ends with a very tentative turn toward autobiography, along with the remarkable memory lapse it occasions, seems to me to provide a cru­...

..., literary servants fracture myths of a hermetically-sealed nuclear family, becoming implicated in the primal web of desire, fear, and identification in the Female Gothic. In this essay, I historicize Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance, and her ghost story “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” in terms...

... to whom she pro­ fessed indebtedness. By 1920 Moore had read all three of James’s autobiographies and most likely read them soon after they appeared in 1913,1914, and 1917.35 As soon as the two-volume editions of Henry’s letters and William’s let­ ters came out, both in 1920, she read them...

... “dance masters” (160). Preston stresses the image of the “motor” in this artist’s work by opening the section with a quotation from Duncan’s autobiography in which she states “Before I go out on the stage, I must place a motor in my soul . . . if I do not get time to put the motor in my soul, I...

... of a social welfare world run by global bureaucrats.2 The strong impulse toward autobiographical revelation in Wells, most obvious in his 1934 work Experiment in Autobiography and more generally in the “transparent” reappearances of his own story in many of his novels and other writings, suggests...

... “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb,” Stein began work on The Making of Americans—a work that could be said to inau- gurate a tradition of books that are impossible to read in a conventional manner. Stein was to remark in Everybody’s Autobiography that “The Making of Americans is a very important thing...

... detail in The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950 (2021). 3 The second volume of Burnett’s (1984a , 1984b ) two-volume bibliography of working-class autobiographies, covering 1900 to 1945, is roughly the same length as the first volume, covering 1790 to 1900. 4 See, for example...