...Peter L. Rudnytsky Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Goodbye, Columbus: Roth’s Portrait of the Narcissist as a Young Man Peter L. Rudnytsky F or all the undoubted virtuosity of the other five stories in the collec­ tion, it is of course Goodbye, Columbus that is the pièce de...

...Gregory Castle “The Consolation of Objects” takes seriously Nietzsche’s call to embrace what is, to love necessity. Amor fati for him entails the ability “to see what is necessary in things as what is beautiful in them.” Stephen Dedalus, in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...

... trials follow Hans Goebbels’s famous dictum that trials should begin not with the idea of law, but with the idea that this man must go” (1964, 149). Under this definition the Nuremberg trials must surely be counted as political trials. 2 Beginning with the premise that “these men must go,” they worked...

...Tonje Vold Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Tonje Vold How to “rise above mere nationality”: Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man in the World Republic of Letters Tonje Vold J. M. Coetzee’s work presents critical reflections on literature that circulate beyond their culture...

...Eric D. Smith Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Worldlessness, Utopia, and the Void in Rushdie’s Grimus “Fictions Where a Man Could Live”: Worldlessness, Utopia, and the Void in Rushdie’s Grimus Eric D. Smith From that day to this, I have thought of myself as a wholly...

...Harry Thomas Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Harry Thomas “Immaculate Manhood”: The City and the Pillar, Giovanni’s Room, and the Straight-Acting Gay Man Harry Thomas Eight years separate the publication of Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948) and James Baldwin’s...

...Tom Herron Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Ml The Dog Man: Becoming Animal in Coetzee’s Disgrace Tom Herron Crossing borders or the ends of man I come or surrender to the animal—to the animal in itself, to the animal in me and the ani­ mal at unease...

...Deirdre Coleman Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 The “Dog-Man”: Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage in Coetzee’s Disgrace The “Dog-Man”: Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage in Coetzee’s Disgrace Deirdre Coleman In J. M. Coetzee’s most recent novel, Summertime, Sophie Denoël, one...

...Marc Singer Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 “A Slightly Different Sense of Time”: Palimpsestic Time in Invisible Man Marc Singer I^ .a lp h Ellison once argued, in a panel discussion with William Sty- ron and Robert Penn Warren on “The Uses of History in Fiction...

...Chris Roulston This article explores the relations among childhood innocence, queerness, and nation-building in Rosemary Manning’s boarding school narrative, The Chinese Garden (1962). Recent scholarship by Lee Edelman and Kathryn Bond Stockton has questioned the innocence we invest in the figure...

... of the city, but Head “could feel the boy’s steady hate,” which he knows “would continue just that way for the rest of his life” (128). Indeed, Head himself looks “ravaged and abandoned,” and he “felt he knew now . . . what man would be like without salvation” (129). This scene shares the vocabulary...

...” predicated on an “empathy not explicitly for or toward the human, but with the world in its emergence” ( Manning 2013 , 152). By hoping for better care in the future, after a social reformation, Berger avoids the challenge of actually articulating new, radical modes of caring in the present. Alyson...

...Cheryl Alison In 1952, Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man to acclaim, though the novel’s subterranean ending has inspired critical debate. For over forty years afterward, he worked on his second novel, unfinished when he died in 1994. This article considers what was at stake for Ellison both...

...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...

... this reductive reflex, this essay reads James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a serious exploration of biracial identity and experience. Specifically, the article argues that Johnson draws on early twentieth-century conceptions of femininity as a vehicle for rendering mainly...

... by considering “Clepsydra” in relation to influential readings of poetry offered by some of Ashbery’s major contemporaries (Marjorie Perloff, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom). Exemplifying the allegorical mode of modernism that the young Ashbery resists, Baudelaire’s poem manifests the triumph of linear time...

... is, in Heidegger’s terms, a “pre-ontological testimony” to Dasein’s groundedness in care, Kafka’s story “The Cares of a Family Man” (1919) and Blanchot’s novel The Most High (1948) may be called “post-ontological testimonies” of care. Both texts thematize the slipping away of the temporal horizon of care...

... in the Sun (1962). Borrowing from Hannah Arendt’s theory of action, we propose a reading of Returning to Haifa that comes to grips with the enigmatic but crucial phrase “man is a cause,” arguing that in his representation of women in the novel, Kanafani not only writes against Palestinians resigning...

...Yael Levin This paper traces instances of metalepsis in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman , Vladimir Nabokov’s Bend Sinister , Karin Fossum’s Broken , and J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man . In its collapsing of narrative levels, that stylistic device is commonly seen as dramatizing a uniquely...