...Ryan Hibbett Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m Imagining Ted Hughes: Authorship, Authenticity, and the Symbolic Work of Collected Poems Ryan Hibbett T e d Hughes’s recently published Collected Poems runs 1331 pages, the table of contents alone taking 29. It sits...

...Frances Leviston The impact of Elizabeth Bishop’s maternal loss on the symbolic order of her poems is well-established, but the ways in which Bishop draws on literary tradition in exploring that loss have received less attention. This essay offers a close reading of “The Bight” that demonstrates...

... unspeakability of the events, Delbo’s text oscillates between self-consciously aestheticized language and graphic physical representations of abject bodies. The irruptive visceral descriptions confront the reader with automatic, embodied repulsion in order to highlight the gaps in symbolization...

...Adrian Wanner The city of Odessa has gained prominence in twentieth-century literature as a symbolic hub of sensuality, irreverent humor, and criminal ingenuity. While Odessa’s storied ethnic diversity is now largely reduced to a Russian/Ukrainian binary, the multicultural and Jewish Odessa lives...

... Cold War discourses and highlight real or symbolic junctions between postsocialist European and US spaces, thus constituting new publics and developing new frames of interpretation. The three authors relate the socialist past and its immediate aftermath to the United States: Penkov addresses...

... an “artificial” stereotype as a symbol for artistic self-reflexivity? By addressing such issues in O’Connor’s work, this essay in turn poses questions for the discipline and institutionalized procedures of literary criticism. Flannery O’Connor’s “The Artificial Nigger” was originally published in the Kenyon...

... Finch—is articulated in part by snobbish opposition to what she deems to be “white trash” attitudes. In this way Lee’s critique of a steeply stratified southern society is compromised by her transferring the symbolic rhetoric of defilement from a racial “other” to a class “other” assumed to be racist...

... with the maternal object (the pre-Oedipal phase) is abandoned for a symbolic-social identity based on the division of self and other.7 The mecha­ 129 TWENTIETH CENTUR Y LITERATURE nism of melancholia—the encryption of the lost object within the self...

... into bodily symptoms (such as coughs, convulsions, limps, or linguistic distortions) which function as physical metaphors of psychic distress. In other words, trauma is con­ verted into somatic symptoms that function as “mnemic symbols” of dis­ content (Freud 2: xviii...

...-symbolic system. Indeed, Berger suggests that these defenses of narrative, in opposing the ideology of neuroscience, revise our very sense of otherness. He ends by making the bold claim that narrative “in neuroscientific terms is in fact a truer form of knowledge than the model and . . . the ideology...

... ascent. Since the Joe Cah is not a brand model, nor is it registered with the state, it frees those symbolic associations from their confinement within the consumer economy and the consumer’s republic. By flying both the Confederate flag and a coonskin, the car alludes to the fundamental contradiction...

... that for Lacan the “unconscious, then, is closer to the real than it is to 252 Review the symbolic” (157), and that “the imaginary is closer to the real than is the symbolic,” we find ourselves confronting an extraordinary misreading. This is largely because Hakutani does not acknowledge Lacan’s...

... dancy in the “myth and symbol” school of American criticism.4 A product of the fifties intellectual tradition, Roth has described his introduction to “high art” in the academically inspired ideals of high modernism filtered through the language of New Criticism: “I imagined fiction to be some­...

... and the polemical call for minimalism on which Pound predicates imagism lead him to castigate the openness of symbolism, the suspicious vagueness of political rhetoric, and the usury he detested in world finance: all betray an uncontrollable excess he found anathematic. Recent studies of Pound have tended...

... with his category of the symbolic—is but one element in his tripartite schema of subjectivity and its relationship to the social. The other two elements of course are the imaginary and the real. While the imaginary largely overlaps (and overdetermines) the symbolic, the real is precisely...

..., communities are formed not only through their particular structural or material pattern but also through the symbols, folklore, and heritage that bind them together. Such an “interpretive attitude” imparts a sense of relation to the larger political and social structures and estab­ lishes...

... disrupt “literal” signification, and thus, by creating uncertainty, ambivalence, and paradox, destabilize meaning. Julia Kristeva distinguishes the semiotic, which she as­ sociates with the voice and body of the mother, from the symbolic, which is bound up with the paternal word and the law...

... of empathic understanding that entwines the student’s present moment with the intellectual framework his teacher imaginatively invokes when he calls upon “fiery Columbanus” (27), “Shakespeare’s ghost” (28), “mocking mirrors,” “swaddlingbands,” and mathematical symbols moving “in grave morice.” Cyril allows...

... to the patient’s past, it also belongs to the future, because the repressed is only ever produced by and in analysis itself. It is in this sense that for Žižek the repressed returns “from the future” (Sublime 55), for it is the symbolic outcome of analytic work. Part of the horror of Babi Yar in The White...

... is “unforgivable” both because it is radically other, nonhuman and in no need of forgiveness, and because it has been made to serve as a symbol, bearing the ideological freight of sin and predestination that a word like “unforgivable” implies. The setting of the poem, its view from prison, connects its...