...Patrick Redding Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Patrick Redding “One must make a distinction, however”: Marianne Moore and Democratic Taste Patrick Redding The root & seed of democracy is the doctrine Judge for yourself...

...John King One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile , by Borinsky Alicia , Trinity University Press , 2011 . 223 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 John King One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile by Alicia Borinsky Trinity University Press, 2011...

... the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). He is currently coediting with Len Platt The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature . Professor McHale writes: One convention of this sort of citation is to protest the virtual impossibility of selecting a “best” paper from...

...Jason Vredenburg In both the critical literature and the popular imagination, Jack Kerouac’s seminal road narrative On the Road is often viewed as a celebration of American individualism and frontier myth. Placing the novel within the context of the changing approach to automotive infrastructure...

...Jay Rajiva This essay argues that at the center of Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe lies the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death , which...

... English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, and author of On Deconstruction and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Professor Culler writes: Ordinary mortals, leafing through magazines, choose whether to read an article, if the subject interests them, or to pass on by...

...Richard Danson Brown Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 w “YourThoughts Make Shape Like Snow”: Louis MacNeice on Stephen Spender Richard Danson Brown T h e notion that the left-wing writers o f the 1930s form ed a homog­ enous clique o f interchangeable, mutually...

... an A+ or its analogue in an enthusiastic encomi­ um. Unfortunately, given the conditions of a competition, I am forced to select one entry in a field where all submissions deserve a prize. “Elephants in the Labyrinth of Empire: Modernism and the Menagerie in The Old...

.... ” The judge is Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Among her books is Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter. She is working on a...

...Jon Kertzer Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 !4I The Course of a Particular: On the Ethics of Literary Singularity Jon Kertzer I n Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Course of a Particular,” the cry of win­ try leaves provokes a shift in mood from robust assurance that “one is part...

...Lisa Fluet Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Ml Modernism and Disciplinary History: On H. G. Wells andT. S. Eliot Lisa Fluet Gutman stopped whispering. His sleek dark eyes examined Spade’s face, which was placid. The fat man asked: “Well, sir, what...

...Feng Lan The Modernist Response to Chinese Art , by Qian Zhaoming , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2003 . 274 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 American Poetry and Chinese Art: New Perspectives on a Cross-Cultural Relationship The Modernist...

.... Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English at Vanderbilt University. Professor Spillers’s recent work has appeared in New Centennial Review, boundary 2, and German and Japanese journals, and she is working on a manuscript titled “The Idea of Black Culture,” to be published by...

... straightforward: the 21-year-old Capote meets the older, already well-known Trillings on a train and briefly dis­ cusses with them E. M. Forster’s homosexuality and why it didn’t appear in Lionel’s book on Forster. The essay then goes on to analyze how this episode is remembered by Capote (in various let­...

...Michael L. Ross Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 On a Darkling Planet: Ian McEwan s Saturday and the Condition of England Michael L. Ross /A lthough Ian McEwan’s recent best seller Saturday maintains through­ out a conspicuous air of up-to-the-minute internationalism, that...

... Nelson, Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Nelson is the current national president of the American As- sociation of University Professors and has written widely on modern poetry and on the politics...

...Linda Hutcheon Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Twentieth-Century Literature’s Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism, 2010 The winner of this year’s prize is Brenda S. Helt’s “Passionate Debates on ‘Odious Subjects’: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theo- ries of...

...Brenda S. Helt Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny Passionate Debates on “Odious Subjects”: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity Brenda S. Helt Contemporary scholarly...

... power; no discov­ eries of what turn out to be obvious cultural forces; and above all no willful allegorizing of texts on the basis of single passages and the author’s passion to make it new. The finalists’ essays were all careful analyses of particular texts driven by powerful...

... convention, I was bracing myself for far less substantial pieces of work: the dazzle of clever but thin reflections on a theme, the hum of hastily applied buzzwords, the precariousness of massive cultural generalities built on needle tips. Instead, each essay selected by the journal as a...