...Jackson Ayres © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Confirming the New Orthodoxy: Martin Amis’sMoney and Thatcherism Confirming the New Orthodoxy: Martin Amis’s Money and Thatcherism Jackson Ayres The Conservative election victory of 1979 that elevated Margaret Thatcher to Prime...

...Mitchum Huehls Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present , by Martin Theodore . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 250 pages. Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace , by Rosen Jeremy . New...

...Regina Martin Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Regina Martin The Drama of Gender and Genre in Edith Wharton’s Realism Regina Martin Edith Wharton’s depiction of the socially ambitious Undine Spragg’s peregrinations through New York and French “society” suggests...

...Martin McKinsey Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 m Classicism and Colonial Retrenchment in W. B.Yeats’s “No Second Troy” Martin McKinsey X rom the moment I began The Wanderings of Oisin,” wrote W B.Yeats of the title poem of his 1889 collection, “my subject-matter became...

... not so much to always add new layers of interpretation onto what we know as we are to strip away as best we can the official interpretations that prevent us from undergoing a fresh experience with our subject. ––Charles Johnson, “Lessons” Martin...

... homophobic and homophilic,6 but subsequent revaluations, as in Robert K. Martin and George Piggford’s excellent anthology Queer Forster, have crafted ways of reading that recuperate Forster’s necessarily covert means of incorporating same-sex desire into seemingly heterosexual fictions...

... for making generations have no interest in playing Corregidora, and so managing them requires manipulation and entails obvious contempt. Though Irene conceives Ursa with Martin and later marries him, she emphatically tells Ursa she did not initially intend to become involved with Martin and had even thought...

... moments—James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), Vladi- mir Nabokov’s Lolita (1958), Luis Martín-Santos’s Time of Silence (1961), and Victor Erofeev’s Russian Beauty (1990)—which allows her to engage a wider comparative scope than studies of literary censorship that have tended to focus on Anglo American...

... starling your glittering sing your pharaoh’s wing 9 For a particularly excellent meta-analysis and cultural history of prosody, see Martin 2012 . See, also, Perloff and Dworkin 2009 . Northrop Frye on babble and doodle can be found in chapter 4 of The Anatomy of Criticism (1957). 10...

... but (with the partial exception of Robert Martin’s concluding essay) not to Howards End. 7. For example, Daniel Born argues that “Critics have paid too much atten- tion to Margaret’s rhetoric about connection, and not enough to [her] primary obsession with realty” (152). 8. Margaret’s positing of a queer...

..., animals died houses burned, and the fields ran wild just as in times immemorial and less political. (149-50) The identity assigned to Golding during these years was not substan­ tially altered by his later work. The Inheritors (1955) and Pincher Martin (1956), two more...

... of psychoanalysis, they are overshadowed in historical accounts of twentieth-century psychology by the psychosexual theories of Freud. On the other hand, both lines of research were frequently pursued by the same handful of medical men (including Richard Krafft-Ebing, Alfred Moll, Auguste Forel, and Jean-Martin...

... with prior Hopkins biographies will find some lines of discussion missing. Most notably, little is made of Hopkins’s relationship with Digby Dolben. In his biography Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life (1991) Robert Bernard Martin argued that Hopkins conceived a homoerotic passion...

.... When Krentz moves on to discuss the relationship between disability and trauma in Danticat’s 1994 novel Breath, Eyes, Memory , he does so in response to Barker and Stuart Murray’s (2013) call to consider trauma when examining disability in postcolonial literature. Reading the character of Martine...

... this magical status. In response to language’s putative decline, scholars of the humanities have typically attempted to reinvest in language’s relevance by emphasiz- ing the antagonism and incompatibility between humanistic learning, on the one hand, and science and technology, on the other. Martin...

... in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects , 129 – 56 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Lynn Kenneth S. Hemingway . 1987 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Martin Wendy . 2002 . “ Brett Ashley as New Woman in The Sun Also Rises .” In Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also...

... . Berkeley : University of California Press . Wagner-Martin Linda . 1995 . Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Posman and Schultz give credit to Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) poet and poetry professor Jacques...

... are not sublated into collective politics, but, rather, politics is discounted as mere effect. In a telling exchange between Rose and Martin in the “Present Day” chapter, we learn that Rose assisted the British war effort after 1914, recruiting men for the war and performing industrial work, activities...

... German cultural experience following the fall of communism, Martin Jay identifies a key limitation in the “inability to mourn” model. It “was easy for the Mitscherlichs to identify the unmourned lost object of the post-Nazi era with the figure of Hitler,” he writes, but in the case of the German...

... such as F. R. Leavis, who tagged the author as “bent” and “spinsterly” (qtd. in Martin and Piggford 15). In this, Trilling functions something like Lucy’s Aunt Charlotte Bartlett. When Lucy at last achieves her happy ending, she realizes that her aunt, at first an obstacle to the marriage...