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...Samuel Cohen This essay argues that Jonathan Lethem’s 2009 novel Chronic City is the product of 1) the author’s anti-Bloomian relationship to literary influence, as seen in his 2007 essay “Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism” (and elsewhere) and as worked out in his use of genre and the modes...

... Coetzee later distanced himself both from Beckett and from the mathematics important to his dissertation but seemingly at odds with his later creative practice as a novelist. In this essay I provide an account of the literary-critical and literary-historical context of Coetzee’s postgraduate research...

... in Eliot’s poem. The meticulous attention to pinpointing the precedents for the poem—not Laforgue, as has been thought, since his influence will come only later—is matched by the exactitude in discerning and discriminating the literary influences on the poem, including Keats, Swinburne, and others...

...’ influence on what has constituted “literature” since the early twentieth century. Where scholars and critics have long denigrated his and his literary inheritors’ work as “pulp” or “popular,” Cole takes a more positive view, calling for a new future for Wells scholarship in literary modernism. Nor does her...

... Sacrifice .” College Literature 25 , no. 2 : 121 – 35 . Saunders Judith . 2012 . “ Literary Influences .” In Rattray 2012 , 325 – 34 . Singley Carol J. 1998 . Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit . New York : Cambridge University Press . Toth Margaret . 2012...

... grapple with an unattainable vision of the normal and with the crippling American myth of self-determination. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 American self-determination cross-racial literary influence Ernest Hemingway homosexuality James Baldwin love triangle In the wake of a world...

... for canonization in Ellison’s remarks about Faulkner’s literary influence; and perhaps most intriguingly, the idea of Faulkner as a father to Ellison himself and to many others of whom Faulkner won’t necessarily “be proud.” All of this bears upon the sense of generational, even Oedipal, tension between...

... remarkable sway. And, on the other hand, she aims to revive a term—belatedness—that is still bound to Harold Bloom’s theory of literary influence. Keniston’s argument isn’t dedicated to overturning these powerful theories emerging from New Haven in the 1970s, and de Man’s influence in particular is evident...

... as seemingly unrelated as homophobia and literary influence; and important because it revealed that silence, which many readers have celebrated in Joyce’s works, also hinders Stephen Dedalus’s growth as an artist. At the same time, the question requires us to distinguish Stephen’s silent...

... of the Caribbean postcolonial experience. Models of literary influence that isolate writers by geography or race or that oppose writers in Oedipal struggles are simply not multifaceted enough to describe the increasingly transcultural relationships among writers in the twentieth century...

... for literary legitimacy and prestige. In turn, these increasingly complex and cosmopolitan relationships across the sea had notable effects on Hughes’s late work, an influence that merits close study in its own right. For present purposes, however, I want to focus on the impact Hughes had on South...

... “magic” to signify the literary transformation of the world was influenced, as Dougald McMillan notes, by Jolas’s “special affinity” for the early romantic poet Novalis and his philosophy of magical idealism (1976, 33). Novalis believed one could willfully learn to control one’s spirit, body...

... work, but obstructs any attempt to de­ fine a national or literary influence for it. Rushdie himself is scarcely any help. In the essay “Imaginary Homelands,” he suggests that migran- cy, either as a literal or literary (imaginative) experience, has marked writ­ ers as diverse as Borges...

... study, then, walks us down the hall—from the creative writing classroom to the department of literary studies. In the latter, she finds the home of “critical thinking,” a difficult-to-define metaperspective on one’s own thought and writing that proves a crucial influence on a subgenre of poetry she...

.... 304 Marianne Moore and Democratic Taste Overcoming the Master: Henry James’s critique of democratic form More than any other literary influence, it was Henry James who taught Moore how to approach the question of aesthetic taste in a democratic culture. As Linda Leavell has shown, Moore...

... sublimity. Such a conviction, as Zhaoming Qian suggests in his new book, influenced the American poets Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, not only inspir­ ing their creative practices but also constituting the key to an important aspect of American literary modernism that Qian calls...

... as a nineteenth-century narrative by the wife of a British commissioner and the anti-colonial narrative of Soga, an African missionary. Wenzel’s notion of genuine intertextuality is influenced by, and also informs, debates about whether literary history in South Africa is best approached from...

...Abram Foley Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review , and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde , by Glass Loren , Stanford University Press , 2013 . 272 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Abram Foley Literary History and its Incorporations...

... Literature in the 1930s , the “intensity with which many thirties authors criticized the idea of political writing after 1939 has become one of the iconic volte-faces in twentieth-century literary history” (197). By the end of the decade, numerous authors and intellectuals had already begun to dismiss...

... syllabi.) At first glance, this approach seems incongruous in a book with the word “global” in the title. It bears fruit, however, insofar as Giles is less interested in the elasticity of the term “American” than he is in the rigidity of the exceptionalism that shores up most literary histories...