Criticism and interpretation subtopic
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Articles
1-87 out of 87 article(s)
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Author |
Type |
Date |
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| Who's dying, who's watching now? |
Rickels, Laurence A. |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2009 |
2288 |
| "Mad laughter" in Federman's The Twofold Vibration. |
Feuer, Menachem |
Critical essay |
Mar 1, 2009 |
7103 |
| Roberto Bolano: reading Roberto Bolano is a vertiginous experience: exasperating, confusing, enlightening, rewarding. Think Paul Auster--but in a parallel universe where poets and writers are revered as lunatic mystics. |
Smith, Patrick |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2009 |
2770 |
| Anita Shreve: thrillers, emotional dramas, ordinary people, extraordinary choices. C'mon, you know you like that stuff. |
Teisch, Jessica |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2009 |
1939 |
| Tom Wolfe: "To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but i still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things i don't know about.". |
Teisch, Jessica |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2009 |
3677 |
| Aliens and existential elevators: absurdity and its shadows in Douglas Adams's Hitch hiker series/Ruimtewesens en eksistensiele hystoestelle: absurditeit en die skadu's daarvan in Douglas Adams se Hitch hiker-reeks. |
van der Colff, M.A. |
Essay |
Dec 1, 2008 |
5588 |
| Literary criticism, The Interpreters: Soyinka's prose style. |
Goddard, Horace I. |
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Sep 22, 2008 |
2472 |
| The Orient "made Oriental": a study of William Beckford's Vathek. |
Al-Alwan, Muna |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2008 |
4240 |
| Intransitive autobiography: Naked Lunch and the problem of personal identity. |
Bennett, Benjamin |
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Sep 22, 2008 |
4790 |
| The geometry of the pressant. |
Mccarthy, Tom |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
1932 |
| Black crisis shuffle: fiction, race, and simulation. |
Murray, Rolland |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
12004 |
| "Manumission and marriage?": freedom, family, and identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale. |
Hussen, Aida Ahmed |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
9341 |
| Alternatives to the "talking cure": black music as traumatic testimony in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. |
Visvis, Vikki |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
8979 |
| Black "like me": (mis) recognition, the racial gothic, and the post-1967 mixed-race movement in Danzy Senna's Symptomatic. |
Young, Hershini Bhana |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
12126 |
| "What would be on the other side?": spectrality and spirit work in Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Anderson, Melanie R. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
10311 |
| Sancho as a thief of time and art: Ovid's Fasti and Cervantes' Don Quixote 2. |
de Armas, Frederick A. |
Author abstract |
Mar 22, 2008 |
12060 |
| A puerta cerrada: funcion de Madrid en Miau de Benito Perez Galdos. |
Torres-Pou, Joan |
Report |
Jan 1, 2008 |
3443 |
| Vinculos homossociais e homoeroticos em Dom Casmurro de Machado de Assis. |
Gomides, Camilo |
Report |
Jan 1, 2008 |
3039 |
| Hard Times as Bodie: the allegorical functionality in E.L. Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times (1960)/Hard Times as Bodie: die allegoriese funksionaliteit in E.L. Doctorow se Welcome to Hard Times (1960). |
van der Merwe, Philip |
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Aug 1, 2007 |
9865 |
| In the shadow of the cross: on Lagerkvist's Barabbas/ In die skadu van die kruis: oor Lagerkvist se Barabbas. |
van der Linde, Gerhard |
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Aug 1, 2007 |
6724 |
| Hemingway's camera Eye: the problem of language and an interwar politics of form. |
Trodd, Zoe |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2007 |
6450 |
| Life unworthy of life? Masculinity, disability, and guilt in The Sun Also Rises. |
Fore, Dana |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2007 |
6201 |
| Reading For Whom the Bell Tolls with Barthes, Bakhtin, and Shapiro. |
Lester, Jennifer |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2007 |
3565 |
| The Great Gatsby. |
Pidgeon, John A. |
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Mar 22, 2007 |
3081 |
| Hermann Hesse. |
Teisch, Jessica |
Critical essay |
Mar 1, 2007 |
3365 |
| Modernist homage to the fin de siecle. |
Thain, Marion |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2007 |
9727 |
| 'Lane, you're a perfect pessimist': pessimism and the English Fin de siecle. |
Shrimpton, Nicholas |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2007 |
8254 |
| "A bicycle is a splendid thing": Hemingway's source for Bartolomeo Aymo in A Farewell to Arms. |
Cirino, Mark |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
3196 |
| Cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban religion, and Santiago's failure in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. |
Melling, Philip |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
8211 |
| "A very sinister book": The Sun Also Rises as critique of pastoral. |
Savola, David |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
9295 |
| Objects on the table: anxiety and still life in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. |
Wilhelm, Randall S. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
7790 |
| Wake up alone and like it!: Dorothy Hollis, Marjorie Hillis, and To Have and Have Not. |
Eby, Carl P. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
3765 |
| Judas, we hardly knew ye: the "gospel" of Judas and The Da Vinci Code make Christianity unrecognizable. |
Berger, Rose Marie |
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Aug 1, 2006 |
719 |
| Insurrection and Depression-era politics in Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities (1935). |
Stevens, Jason W. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
13604 |
| "My heart belongs to daddy": the fictionalization of Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi in contemporary film and novels. |
Lent, Tina Olsin |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
4831 |
| The collective voice in The Madonna of Excelsior: narrating transformative possibilities/ Die kollektiewe stem in The Madonna of Excelsior: die beskrywing van transformatiewe moontlikhede. |
Zulu, N.S. |
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Apr 1, 2006 |
7380 |
| The world's Pontoppidan and his Lykke Per. |
Lebowitz, Naomi |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
11555 |
| "A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula. |
Fulton, Lorie Watkins |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
6967 |
| Oratory, embodiment, and US citizenship in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio. |
Karafilis, Maria |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
11255 |
| Imagining the post-human: recent books by Kazuo Ishiguro and Michel Houellebecq offer guides of sorts to the post-human. |
Cooper, Simon |
Critical essay |
Feb 1, 2006 |
1706 |
| Ernest Hemingway. |
Pidgeon, John A. |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
1713 |
| Translating between cultures: a Kristevan reading of the theme of the foreigner in some twentieth-century novels by Irish Women. |
Ingman, Heather |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2006 |
138 |
| A curse on literature! A discussion of the eighth lesson of J M Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. |
Macfarlane, Elizabeth |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
5823 |
| Teaching peace in the feminist classroom: Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing. |
Fuller, Laurie |
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Dec 22, 2005 |
6231 |
| A Place Where Wolves Fuck. |
Rosenblatt, Les |
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Oct 1, 2005 |
3077 |
| Whose will be done?: self-determination in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's daughter. |
Bussey, Susan Hays |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
8913 |
| Inheriting the criminalized black body: race, gender, and slavery in Eva's Man. |
Young, Hershini Bhana |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
10543 |
| The Other side of paradise: Toni Morrison's (un)making of mythic history. |
Gauthier, Marni |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
12263 |
| Creating the beloved community: religion, race, and nation in Toni Morrison's paradise. |
Romero, Channette |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
9235 |
| "How people go to hell": pessimism, tragedy, and affinity to Schopenhauer in the sun also rises. |
Schmigalle, Gunther |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
6238 |
| "You don't know the Italian language well enough": the bilingual dialogue of A Farewell to Arms. |
Cirino, Mark |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
7950 |
| "Pulvis et umbra sumus" Horace in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. |
Calloway, Katherine |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
4621 |
| What is "real?" The author of The Professor's Daughter spends a lot of time explaining that her novel isn't autobiography. |
Raboteau, Emily |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
924 |
| Mazarine John Lang's 1845 novel. |
Crittenden, Victor |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
2526 |
| Reorienting Hamsun: or why Glahn left Norway for India. |
Zook, Darren C. |
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Jun 22, 2005 |
9988 |
| Futile attraction: Michel Houellebecq's Lovecraft. |
Banville, John |
Critical Essay |
Apr 1, 2005 |
4135 |
| Corruption and innocence in Robert Penn Warren's fiction. |
Ealy, Steven D. |
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Mar 22, 2005 |
5805 |
| Barbara Chase-Riboud, visionary woman: in words and art the renowned author and sculptor breathes life into the history of the forgotten female. |
Wells, Monique Y. |
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Mar 1, 2005 |
1350 |
| Romance at any age: a daughter's curiosity brings back a writer's long ago memories of sneaking Mama's romance novels from under the bed and urges her to write for every generation. |
Palfrey, Evelyn |
Editorial |
Jan 1, 2005 |
1470 |
| The novel in Irish since 1950: from national narrative to counter-narrative. |
Conchubhair, Brian O. |
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Jan 1, 2005 |
10498 |
| Frans Masereel: Passionate Journey. |
Antonsen, Lasse B. |
Critical Essay |
Dec 1, 2004 |
922 |
| In search of Don Quixote. |
Greenberg, Martin |
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Oct 1, 2004 |
4569 |
| Good grief: Lord of the Flies as a post-war rewriting of salvation history. |
van Vuuren, Marijke |
Critical Essay |
Aug 1, 2004 |
10519 |
| Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: "a well of tears". |
Panichas, George A. |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2004 |
6962 |
| Corpses, curses, and cannibalism: containment and excess in Selma Lagerlof's Bannlyst and its reception. |
Nordlund, Anna |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2004 |
9845 |
| Disintegrating bodies: postmodern narrative in Mariaana Jantti's Amorfiaana. |
Chace, Tara |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2004 |
7892 |
| "What dignity is there in that?": the crisis of dignity in selected late-twentieth-century novels. |
Medalie, David |
Critical Essay |
Jun 1, 2004 |
6003 |
| The butler in (the) passage: the liminal narrative of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. |
Scherzinger, Karen |
Critical Essay |
Apr 1, 2004 |
8908 |
| Meer dydelikhyt oor die punch en die vis 'n Vergelyking van Niggie, Daar's vis in die punch en Eilande. |
John, Philip |
Critical Essay |
Apr 1, 2004 |
8780 |
| Yes, that is a roll of bills in my pocket: the economy of masculinity in The Sun Also Rises. |
Leland, Jacob Michael |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2004 |
3986 |
| Not so true, not so simple: the Spanish translations of The Sun Also Rises. |
Rodriguez-Pazos, Gabriel |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2004 |
6828 |
| Infantry and infanticide: in A Farewell to Arms. |
Pozorski, Aimee L. |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2004 |
9771 |
| "In music she had always used to feel alone in the world": Jane Austen, solitude, and the artistic woman. |
Wells, Juliette |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2004 |
5536 |
| Austen's urban redemption: rejecting Richardson's view of the city. |
Easton, Celia A. |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2004 |
6355 |
| More distinguished in his domestic virtues: Captain Wentworth comes home. |
Casal, Elvira |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2004 |
4429 |
| War as an internal and external battleground in Alamo Oliveira's Ate Hoje (Memorias de Cao). |
Ramos Villar, Carmen M. |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2004 |
9274 |
| Rereading Pepetela's O Desejo de Kianda after 11 September 2001: signs and distractions. |
Rothwell, Phillip |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2004 |
5950 |
| Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication. |
Rothberg, Michael |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
9819 |
| "I will gladly share with them my richer heritage": schoolteachers in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chesnutt's Mandy Oxendine. |
Jackson, Cassandra |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
9825 |
| Appropriating space and transcending boundaries in The Africa House by Christina Lamb and Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda. |
Wenzel, Marita |
Critical Essay |
Dec 1, 2003 |
6338 |
| Deconstructing empire in Joseph Conrad and Zakes Mda (1). |
Sewlall, Harry |
Critical Essay |
Dec 1, 2003 |
6241 |
| Translating Triomf: the shifting limits of "ownership" in literary translation or: never translate anyone but a dead author. |
de Kock, Leon |
Critical Essay |
Dec 1, 2003 |
6731 |
| A safe preserve for sport. (Fiction chronicle). |
Watman, Max |
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May 1, 2003 |
4510 |
| Who was Simon Raven? |
Allen, Brooke |
Critical Essay |
Apr 1, 2003 |
4886 |
| A ciascuno il suo. L'abito, il corpo e il profumo in Rube di Giuseppe Antonio Borgese. |
Fabbian , Chiara |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2003 |
8671 |
| A method to her madness: Bessie Head's A Question of Power as South African national allegory. |
Magnolia, Tiffany |
Critical Essay |
Jun 1, 2002 |
6019 |
| Moving tropes: new modernist travels with Virginia Woolf. |
Lamont, Elizabeth Clea |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
7778 |
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