... and poor, high and low, stupid and intelligent, Lawrence and Huxley undo the hierarchicalism with which they are typically identified in modernist studies. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 aristocracy class modernism satire status Aristocracy wears many faces in modern British...

... formal features, such as the adopted/fostered characters’ abrupt discovery of their adoptive status and the presence of psychological discourses in representing the distress of learning that new information. They come to very different conclusions, however, about the root cause of the adopted characters...

...David Sergeant This essay argues for a fuller recognition of the key transitional status of The Four-Gated City (1969) in Doris Lessing’s career. As an attempt to recalibrate the basic coordinates of the realist inheritance, the novel develops a strongly spatial narrative mode that coincides...

...Eric Strand Although our recovery of Elizabeth Bishop’s politics has involved seeing her as a resistant “outsider,” this essay argues that she was at her most challenging as an inhabitant of poetic institutions. Exemplifying the vexed status of the Depression-era writer after the crash...

... questions about the status and value of these statements. For example, Nealon interprets as a statement about actual money lines by Gary Snyder that describe money in terms of a “dazzling,” incalculable, quasi-magical power (29-30). Assuming that this is indeed a statement of the poet’s belief about...

..., and social challenges. The pervasive image of shoes in the two plays serves to symbolize this crossroads. A shoe falling off Lenin’s statue represents the post-1989 failure of communist ideology, a pair of designer shoes illustrates the worldwide rise of capitalist consumerist ideology, while other shoes...

... accelerated in the second half of the nineteenth century, as states gradually began to recognize women as potential property holders rather than as property themselves. From this point on, Irr suggests, “individual women’s property rights could plausibly be understood as deriving from their status...

... status as ideological propaganda that at some times destabilized and at other times naturalized ethnic writers’ claims to an American identity. Although he acknowledges that Whitman, in an 1858 editorial in the Brooklyn Daily Times, asks, “is not America for the Whites...

... that it covers, that something like what we consider to be postmodernism comes into view, albeit under other names such as black hum or (Feldman). And even the final essay in the volume, John B arth’s 1967 “The Literature o f Exhaustion,” has— despite its status as a postm odern manifesto— more...

... seven or eight years later, Royall becomes Charity’s sole guardian. Charity recognizes that as Mr. Royall’s ward, her class status is elevated above that of her Mountain kinfolk. However, her first experiences “look[ing] into shops with plate-glass fronts” (57) and attending an illustrated...

..., and innumerable others, have shown. The incontrovertible epistemic issue seems to be the sense of a definitive transformation in language’s status in relation to representation. This transformation is commonly conceived of as a loss: language, once in possession of a sovereign overview of the world like...

... of the art museum redefined the social status of art, but the museum’s effects on aesthetic experience and the development of new artistic forms were still being feverishly debated in the early twentieth century by modern artists who resisted what they perceived to be the museum’s complicity with cultural...

... this funniness, argu- ing that Wright’s greatest gift is the intellectual “promiscuity” that he bequeaths his “varied and multihued progeny” (52). Reid-Pharr puts into tension Wright’s status as Father of Black American Literature (a status of celebrity) with his status as an intellectual...

... Jessica Maucione, “retains [his] Italianness by resisting and overcoming assimilative values and desires” (101). Arturo not only rediscovers “his own status as alien and outsider” (137), as Richard Col- lins suggests, but also locates himself with others who have experienced exclusion: “he...

... and cynical high priest of Apollo, as personae for 393 J. H. Stape their creator through which he explores his anxieties and hopes about the nature, value, and sociopolitical status of art in our time. § The ironies of speaking through a woman and a homosexual priest can hardly have...

... after some prior knowledge has been established. Given the proximity of England to Ireland as well as Ireland’s long-standing status as an inter­ nal colony of Great Britain, the fiction of Ireland’s archival emptiness was perhaps even more difficult to maintain than in geographically dis­ tant...

... instances, Fussell does not assign Brittain’s work an authoritative status that allows it to stand or speak on its own. Instead, the two references arrive with the male perspective attached, presumably to validate Brittain’s own words.1 This omission can be explained by Fussell’s...

... and millennialist vision of the first statue, in which the dead rise in a state so pure that they need not even be cleansed of sin, Rubek has added a darker aspect of the apocalypse narrative. He has retrieved the image of the beast. The statue is now an allegory of conflict within the artist’s soul. Since...

..., this streak also highlights anxieties about Oscar’s professional status that echo the Cahns’ critique of the War on Poverty. Part of the reason for Oscar’s scathing satire of Oakland Legal Aid is that the agency in no way resembles the kind of neighborhood law office that the Cahns hoped to establish...