...Timothy Parrish Philip Roth—Countertexts, Counterlives , by Shostak Debra , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2004 . 332 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 You Must Change Your Life: Gender, Desire, and Philip Roth Philip Roth—Countertexts...

...Graham Fraser Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 HI The Calligraphy of Desire: Barthes, Sade, and Beckett’s H ow It Is Graham Fraser One is the victim of everything one writes. —Samuel Beckett (qtd. in Abbott 109) “ Ti f something is ‘communicated...

...John C. Charles © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual , by Reid-Pharr Robert , New York : New York University Press , 2007 . 208 pages. Review Desire, Agency, and Black American Subjectivity Once You Go...

...James Najarian Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 ULI “Greater Love” : Wilfred Owen, Keats, and a Tradition of Desire James Najarían ilfred Owen is still, to some extent, a prisoner of his saindy repu­ tation. Though the most recent biography of Owen, by Helen...

...Kirstie Blair Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 41 Gypsies and Lesbian Desire: Vita Sackville-West,Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf Kirstie Blair Long Barn, Knole, Richmond and Bloomsbury. All too familiar and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange...

...Brian Gollnick Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America , by Siskind Mariano . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Mariano Siskind’s Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity...

...Benjamin Schreier Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 u \ Desire’s Second Act: “Race” and The Great Gatsby’s Cynical Americanism Benjamin Schreier I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives. —Fitzgerald, “My Lost City” (31) F e w...

...Zhao Ng This essay engages in a critique of soteriological desire, alongside its corporeal and affective correlates, mobilized in different ways in German fascism of the thirties and Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel, Nightwood . In contrasting the “fascist body” with the “hysterical body,” I seek...

... in publishing as a novelist and in sustained composition. Through paying close attention to Ellison’s compositional style in Invisible Man , in addition to his work in the essay form, this account shows that despite Ellison’s desire to publish the novel, his approach to novel-writing indicates his investment...

... aesthetic. This essay argues, however, that what Corregidora affirms most strongly is not a more accurate (because more traumatic) history but rather what Stephen Best has recently called the desire to make the past present. What Ursa Corregidora struggles to realize in the novel is precisely the pastness...

... 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. Copyright © 2019...

... with a desire to write a utopian collective. This is confirmed both by previously unstudied draft material for Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and the published texts that followed. However, in The Four-Gated City this attempt to break from the destructive globalization of the postwar era becomes deeply...

... psychological work on trance, it argues that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, queer desire was in part understood as a function of compulsively misdirected and pathologically fixed attention. Embracing rather than refuting this model of queerness, writers such as Barnes and Rechy drew...

... short story, “Bliss.” Most readers of “Bliss” assume that the protagonist, Bertha, knows nothing of her husband’s apparent affair with a guest at their dinner party and even that she is unaware of her own burgeoning homosexual desire for this same guest. And yet the persistent ambiguity of Mansfield’s...

... and the personal force of individual desire plays out on a broader structural level as Baldwin’s gay plot is drawn toward the magnetically forceful heterosexual love triangle in Hemingway’s tale. Hemingway and Baldwin address gender normativity and sexual inadequacy from a particular American perspective that must...

..., Sister Carrie depicts clothing and accessories as the principle objects of desire and media of seduction. These commodities speak for capitalism, and their discourses are narratives o f desire— desire for the production of an idealized subjectivity through the acquisition of things...

... discussions of the work of Virginia  Woolf use just about every possible word except bisexual to describe her portrayal of desire. Since bisexual was rarely used to describe a sexual identity type until the 1960s, it might seem anachronistic to use the word to describe the coexistence of sexual...

... polymorphous mutability of desire” in order to set up the essay’s ambitious plan to offer us a new and newly produc- tive way to read representations of same-sex desire in Woolf’s work. Courageously eschewing Woolf critics’ frequent use of autobiog- raphy as an interpretive tool, it posits instead...

...Carrie J. Preston You! hypocrite lecteur! New Readings of T. S. Eliot Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot edited by Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.265 pages Carrie J . Preston Readers, hypocritical or otherwise...

...Randi Saloman The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann , by Cuda Anthony , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2010 . 235 pages. Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf , by McIntire Gabrielle , Cambridge : Cambridge...