...Františka Zezuláková Schormová Forget English! Orientalism and World Literatures , by Mufti Aamir R. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 304 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 “World literature is Orientalism, it is inseparable from it,” remarked...

...Edward J. Ahearn Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Modern English Visionary: Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor and Angela Carter’s The Passion o f New Eve Edward J. Ahearn he popularity of Peter Ackroyd and Angela Carter, and the (sometimes puzzled...

... of recuperating the English translation of the diary within the context of the scant supporting historical documentation and memorialization of Berliner women’s experience during the occupation. Second, it demonstrates how the diary produces a feminist account of survival and a narrative for collective trauma...

...William Fogarty Taking up the persistent question of poetry’s sociopolitical capacities by considering how Harrison’s poems depend on the power of local speech, this article examines how they cast his working-class northern English dialect in meter and rhyme as a way to scrutinize social...

...Barbara Foley The winner of this year’s prize is Conrad Steel’s “Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and ‘Howl.’” The judge is Barbara Foley, Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Foley’s chief scholarly and political interests are in the fields of African...

... that he has fled but that has also produced him. Both thinkers offer similar accounts of how English colonialism affects the consciousness of the colonized, producing the sort of elitist disdain we see in Gabriel as well as the ideal of an “authentic” Irish culture typically mobilized to critique him...

... in contemporary society and politics. Demonstrating how John Dowell’s impressionistic narrative signals the dangers of social disengagement and political isolation, the essay also addresses the novel’s historical allusions to the English Reformation and the latent correlations between characters’ behavior...

... as a result of her reactionary tendencies and concludes that despite Butts’s intuitive sensitivity to the nonhuman energies that permeate human society and culture, her work betrays an elitist resistance to the inclusion of all sociocultural groupings within an idealized English community. In the first...

...Irene Tucker Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature , by Wirth-Nesher Hana , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2006 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m Reviews Writing Jewish Call It English: The Languages o f Jewish American...

..., Imagisme and all Vital Forms of Modem Art.” From this “Discussion” would emerge the English avant-garde movement vorticism. Lewis, Pound, and the other artists and writers affiliated with this new journal had yet to ascribe a moniker to their movement, but in form and content this ad...

... that English fiction was “too much concerned with right and wrong, and not enough with evil” (“Evil” 3). For Wilson, the English novel had rejected the metaphysical and used socially ac­ ceptable behavior (“right and wrong”) as its only moral benchmark. He predictably came under attack from his fellow...

... the metacritical question of how these texts can be understood in light of theoretical debates in postcolonial studies, subaltern studies, Marxist historiography, nationalist historiography, Gandhi studies, and Indian English literary studies. Shingavi deftly interweaves these different levels of analysis...

...Kurt Koenigsberger Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI Elephants in the Labyrinth of Empire: Modernism and the Menagerie in The Old Wives’ Tale Kurt Koenigsberger D espite his deep sympathies for things Continental and a mild con­ tempt for narrowly English cultural...

... between Jamaican dialect and standard English, between vernacular rhythms and measured and mannered prosody, a modern Caribbean verse spoken by a range of subaltern Jamaican speakers, articulating distinct and dissent- ing visions of colonial modernity.4 On this reading, the irregularities...

... . Florence : Taylor and Francis . Brannigan John . 2015 . Archipelagic Modernism . Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh Press . Chambers Robert , ed. 1880 . Chambers’s Cyclopaedia of English Literature, a History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors...

.... For instance, the West Indian protagonists of Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea find themselves caught in the imperial dynamics of the metropolitan core. But her first novel, Quartet (originally published as Postures), does something different. Here, Rhys draws her protagonist from an English...

... be to substitute Irish for English capital but no-one, I suppose, denies that capitalism is a stage of progress. The Irish proletariat has yet to be created. A feudal peasantry exists, scraping the soil but this would with a national revival or with a definite preponderance...

... the British and Irish archipelago, including Scottish, Welsh, and regional English, and with regional writers from America, such as Robert Frost. The literary devolution that comprises the largely untold story of twentieth-century “English” literature suggests the viability of regionalism generally...

... that the forms of the radical American poets informed Zábrana’s “lyric subterfuge” (88) of Czechoslovak communist ideology. “Arrival in English” (chapter 3) opens with the influential English critic, editor, and poet A. Alvarez. In 1962, Alvarez both published The New Poetry , the anthology of “Extremist...

... Great Mop has become distinctly unpleasant, just as organized by an English social and sexual order as are the more obviously man-made environs of London that Laura sought to escape. Laura paces the boundaries of the field “in despair and rebellion” (142), unable to envision a solution...