... or criminals” (304). Barnes’s so-called criminal friends were the gays and lesbians who were part of her social milieu in Greenwich Village in the 1910s, where she resided before relocating in 1920 to a similar community of American expatriate sexual dissidents on Paris’s Left Bank, whose lives she...

... his visit to Bishop’s childhood village as an occa­ sion on which his manners are challenged to prove themselves as more than mere politeness, as having moral substance. Though he attempts to pay “tribute” (Poems 667) to Bishop in a manner that would not cause her “dismay,” Merrill’s urbanity...

...).The date is August 1922, the place is near the fictional village of Great Mop in Buckinghamshire, and Laura is Laura Erminia Willowes (called Lolly by her relatives), protago­ nist of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1926 novel Lolly Willowes. Laura tramps around the field, “turning savagely when she...

... the gaps that “Manuelzhino” acknowl­ edges are the least interesting. “The Riverman,” for example, in which the speaker is a man from an Amazon village who wants to become a witch doctor, contains some of the few genuinely dead lines in Bishop’s work: “I know some things already / but it will take...

.... Most progressives, such as the authors of the 1932 Urdu collection Angare , were skeptical if not outright critical of religion. However, this began to change in the 1930s as urban, middle-class youths left universities and went to India’s villages as part of nationalist outreach. This resulted...

...? City, village, or neigh­ borhood? The France of today or yesterday? Everyday or institutional France? Are the French here individuals, or are they types or roles? Groups, social classes, or a generalized people? Moreover, why this country and culture rather than another? Is it for example...

... Killed in an Accident”) (1934), Yi’s narrator visits a spring in the village of Paech’ŏn (in today’s southwestern North Korea) with his friend “S,” seeking a cure for his tuberculosis. The first part presents the narrator’s last morning there, where he observes daily life in the village. Although some...

... haunts of English peace. I sit here, in Edward’s gunroom, all day and all day in a house that is absolutely quiet. No one visits me, for I visit no one. No one is interested in me, for I have no interests. In twenty minutes or so I shall walk down to the village, beneath my own oaks, alongside my own...

... industrialism and the metropole. Even as Smith’s own reading apprehends a Faulkner who embraces ties (yes, pun intended) to such unexpected locales as Greenwich Village, however, Smith overlooks a substantial body of Faulkner scholarship that already situates the Mississippi novelist in ways that he...

... propaganda following the 1940 defeat would have made the Révolution nationale an unavoidable presence during Beckett’s experiences in both Paris and the unoccupied zone: “The regime’s propaganda was on a scale unprecedented in France” ( Jackson 2003 : 253), with posters blanketing city walls and village...

... is that after reading it the world resembles the poem (One Art 409). Recording visits to Great Village, Grand Falls, and Cape Breton, Merrill describes such Bishop-like details as a “lichen and moss encrusted” shack and a country store with a “stuffed shark” and a “live red parrot named Eric” (Journal...

...” and “Swan-boat ride” and in the short story “In the Village.” Susan McCabe approaches Bishop in light of Freud’s thinking about the fort-da game and Lacan’s méconnaissance to argue that the lack of close parental relationships, particularly with her mother, was fundamental to Bishop’s writing: “Bishop’s...

... on caricature: he was poor, and when the communists came to steal food from his village, he joined them and hid from the Nazis. Because he was starving, the young man left his dugout, only to find that “communism sprouted fragrant blooms” ( Penkov 2011a : 59). As a “heroic partisan” he was “given a high...

... “The U.S.A. School of Writing” in the New Yorker in 1956, and in that period—when Pound’s so-called village explainer had found a stable home in the university—the essay would have registered a cynicism about the academic mainstreaming of literary creativity; “later,” she writes, a colleague of hers...

..., it is recalled nostalgically in terms of a pastoral idyll of village churches, bloom­ ing gardens, and genteel domesticated contentment, diegetic detachment combining with anonymous and generalized mimetic utterances. On the other hand, with the narrative voice now loosely affiliated with the general­ ity...

... moved to Montoma, in upstate New York, in search of pure air and fresh milk for the invalid. Gregory was forced to commute to Greenwich Village—as infrequently as her duties allowed her. By September she felt she could no longer continue to satisfy the demands of both men and wrote...

...; their only regret was that it was a failure, and that the United States ensured that it would be” (Hewison 128). In Remains, we see that Eden retains his popular support as late as August 1956. In one passage, Stevens spends an evening in the rural village of Tavistock and misleads...

... the quotid­ ian details of life in two French villages, Bilignin and Culoz, where Stein and Alice B.Toklas lived from 1939 to 1944, against the advice of their friends and American officials. Stein and Toklas were protected by their friend Bernard Faÿ, a Nazi collaborator, professor of American...

... by way of some primordial migration, and Waterman’s intuitions and dreams about a native village on Mars inhabited by human-like aliens appear to confirm that Mars is in some sense the human home-world, with Native Americans the most direct descendants of a species that originated on the red...

... the war was like handing a glass of water to the village drunk. There are lines in the chapter on the denazification of Carl Schmitt—who is probably the most intellectually eminent individual discussed in the book, but whose eminence leaves Sollors, by his own admission (the price of decency...