... to “fastidiousness” that characterized her early poetry, to the conscious development of a capacity for witness that became her postwar concern. detail ethics Jean Wahl Pontigny witness In a poetic career marked by a relative reluctance to issue general statements, Marianne Moore’s essay “Feeling...

...Jennifer Willging Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 “True Down to the Last Detail”: Narrative and Memory in Marguerite Duras’s “Monsieur X.” Jennifer Willging arguerite Duras’s La Douleur (1985)1 is a collection of six disparate texts...

... and has significance for environmentalist ethics. This article traces the stylistic and formal influence of cosmopolitan and metropolitan experience upon Butts’s evocations of rural Dorset before looking at her work’s ethical implications in more detail. It examines some of the tensions that arise...

...Paul Bradley Bellew American modernist Hart Crane’s poem “The Idiot” details the poet’s real-life encounters with a young man with a cognitive disability. Beginning in 1926, Crane worked on the poem through different versions through letters, manuscripts, and magazine publications until about 1932...

... that incorporates the imaginative recovery of (often silenced) history that Toni Morrison (1987) called “rememory,” along with what Holocaust scholar Michael Rothberg (2009) calls “multidirectional memory,” this article details Williams’s daring exploration of spaces of overlap between the histories of American...

... by examining the diarist’s representations of the effects of rape and rubblestrewn Berlin. Third, the essay details the complicated publication history of the diary through a consideration of the relationship between the trauma sustained by the survivors of mass rape and the blows to German national identity...

..., various incarnations of  Vladimir Nabokov materialize within the four segments of  W. G. Sebald’s hybrid 1992 work, The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten). To begin with some details: Nabokov appears photographically in the Henry Selwyn section of The Emigrants (Figure 1) in which Dr. Selwyn presides...

... Nabokov” proved a truly thrilling read: despite its complexity, I could not put it down. The essay builds on a few seemingly small details in W. G. Sebald’s 1992 novel The Emigrants, several small appearances of various incarnations of  Vladimir Nabokov in the text—as “the butterfly man” mentioned...

... in the 1920s. Instead of florid, obfuscating devices, he prefers the luminous detail, the radiating historical fact, alive with autotelic significance, as he imagines it, even as it resists being appropriated by an unscrupulous orator to nefarious ends. And he prefers referring to past details over...

... not just with O’Malley but with other Irish republicans and socialists, such as Peadar O’Donnell and Charlie Gilmore, who represented political orientations very much at odds with the Unionism that pervaded the Beckett home in suburban Foxrock. Perhaps most revelatory, however, is the detailed work...

... on that score.) Easy access to the correspondence permits both Moody and Nadel to provide a closely detailed account of Pounds literary life. How­ ever, in Moody’s case this is a mixed blessing. His narrative is fragmented by the practice of redacting details from Pound’s correspondence with a particular...

... was not about to pass over it. What appears at first to be Hemingway’s realistic detail in describing the Caesarian is in fact the basis for an extended system of metaphor, running through all o f the stories and contributing greatly to their unity. Hemingway returned...

... and consulted every pertinent source to build a picture of young “Tom” Eliot. His enthusiasm for the details of Eliot’s life leads him to spend considerable descriptive effort (at which he excels) in conjuring up the St. Louis of Eliot’s boyhood, the Gloucester of his childhood summers, the rooming houses...

... of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The logistical details of this meeting, simultaneously courageous and awkward, exemplify the relationship between these important literary figures of the twentieth century. In 1942 the two authors were, in a sense, at the pinnacle of their ca...

... what he calls the poetics of oblivion, a perspective that recognizes how, in the Americas, both human violence and a dynamic natural world have conspired to make history invisible. With the attention to detail and the argumentative nuance that are characteristic of the book...

... Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. As Pollard duly notes, these relationships have been acknowl­ edged and occasionally disputed, but Pollard for the first time spells out in full detail what these writers make of their model. The result is not reducible to an influence study...

... imminent entry into the Second World War. Toward the end of this omitted section, since returned to the text in recent editions, Hurston details her relationship to the radical Left. Most of this passage involves repudiating a commitment to redistribution, insisting that rather than striking for “a little...

... with related mention of decay, decline, and degeneration). The admirably detailed index makes it easy to find these words, but it has no entry for imaginary , which, because of its frequent mention, deserves both indexing and some defining theoretical discussion within the study, which is absent. The word...