...Laura Frost Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Huxley’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World Laura Frost “JL T have just been, for the first time, to see and hear a picture talk,” Aldous Huxley writes in a 1929 essay called “Silence Is Golden...

...Jerome Meckier Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Aldous Huxley’s Americanization o f the Brave New World Typescript Jerome Meckier hen Aldous Huxley revised the Brave New World typescript1 be­ tween 27 May and 24 August 1931, he strove to Americanize his dysto­ pia. His...

... of an Ang- lo-European tradition to which Americans have only attenuated access (for example, Shelley functions in Huxley’s Ape and Essence in much the same way Shakespeare functions in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and Brave New World). The recurrent trope of Shakespeare’s...

... it to Brave New World, Rudolph Schmerl deems it “an almost incredibly bad novel,” its symbolism “labored, crude, and spoiled by the unnecessary explanations of the narrator” and its originality of form an “indifference to form itself” (334). George Woodcock initially regards it as “a pendant...

... referenced as well in the second chapter on Huxley’s Brave New World (1932). The chapter’s previous publication in Journal of Medical Humanities might suggest a particular audience for both the chapter and the book as a whole, specifically in relation to bioethics “proper.” But Linett’s apparent...

... the dystopia depicted in Brave New World (1932). Based, like Lawrence’s Sir Joshua, on Bertrand Russell, but also recalling Henry Scogan, a member of Chaucer’s circle and tutor to the sons of Henry IV, the urbane Scogan envisions a time when “impersonal generation” ( CY 23) will replace natural reproduction...

... a function of marketing to the mainstream, as academics are consumers of the textbook market, and I imagine that our continued separation of women’s poetry in our curricula is also to blame. Bryant’s book is brave, and not just because she reads against the grain of much feminist scholarship...

... 103 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Boy, Billy Boy.” Bits and pieces of the grim fact keep intruding: this is war; Billy Boy Watkins died. Denying Billy Boy Watkins’s death, however, is necessary in order for Paul Berlin to deny his own relendess fear. Soldiers are supposed to be brave, after...

... . Huxley Aldous . 1931 . Music at Night . London : Chatto and Windus . Huxley Aldous . (1932) 2007 . Brave New World . Toronto : Vintage . Huxley Aldous . 1936 . Eyeless in Gaza . Toronto : Macmillan . Huxley Aldous . 1937 . Ends and Means: An Enquiry...

..., that mattered to Woolf. What I found particularly brave about this essay is its direct confronting of the awkward fact that Woolf’s criticism of her male- identified women friends’ ideas and behaviors can often sound homophobic, especially today when read in the context of queer theorizing...

... زندانیان پر دل و آزاده ی جنوب با تارهای قلب پرامید و پر تپش __پرشور می نوازند ( MAS 79) But Comrade! Shen Ju! Never forget and sing whenever you can the Great Song: The living song sung by anonymous comrades the French brilliant brave friends standing before the firing squad— The living...

... The Remains of the Day and Midcentury Anglo-American Tensions.” 48.1 (2002): 77-99 McGuckian, Medbh. See Wheeler McKinsey, Martin. “Classicism and Colonial Retrenchment in W. B.Yeats’s ‘No SecondTroy 48.2 (2002): 174-190 Meckier, Jerome. “Aldous Huxley’s Americanization of the Brave New...

..., but the setting quickly shifts to overlap or include the London of the 1920s. The opening lines obliquely identify the setting with their allusion to King Munza2 and exemplify the style and imagery that dominate all 500-plus lines: One fantee wave Is grave and tall As brave...

... found ourselves under a door of light which shed its colors mixed with snow. This Martha had never seen, nor I, this door open for a red and brave issuing like fires. We wondered. “It is faery,” she said, and after a while, “Could one catch such—Ah, no!” Through the snow shone bunches of red and blue...

... ultimately retreats from the murky politics of the “brave new McWorld” into the haven of domestic life (Franzen 44), along with Franzen’s own account of his “tragic realism,” a form meant not to “change anything” but to “preserve something” (essentially a liberal humanist conception of the value...

... “for his brave and unending confronta- tion with cultural taboos concerning the most carefully policed psycho- sexual complexes” (151). This chapter ends with an extended reading of the poem “Despair in Being Tedious.” In his conclusion Fredman looks forward to the 1970s and 1980s through...

... with horror in a brave quest for truth but of a plea to be understood or even forgiven. J. M. Coetzee finds transgression an inessential component in confession but finds “Absolution the indispensable goal of all con­ fession, sacramental or secular” (252).Thus confessions are not really made...

...?”That evening Merrill read her his poem about the end of his affair with Strato Mouflouzélis, “Strato in Plaster,” which eventually appeared in Braving the Elements (1972). She wrote Merrill soon after the visit that she was “quite crazy” about Merrill’s passionate love poem about Strato, “To My Greek...

... R.W. Campbell’s novel Dorothy, VAD and the Doctor: “[God] will punish the monster who has caused the slaughter of those brave boys whose eyes are the eyes of that good man who died on Calvary” (118). Such novels conjured “the romance of war” (142) with particular allure, suggesting to readers...

... on pictorial media from England, France, Germany, and Russia as well as lyrics, letters, and memorials (1914—1989). Common to both halves of the study is a definition of chivalry as “discipline, which leads to worthiness that is measured by brave deeds freely undertaken, extend­ ing to the greatest...