Recently added articles from Notes on Contemporary Literature:
"Good country people" unmasked: Hulga's journey to salvation.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Pietka, Rachel ... Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga, the bickering mother and daughter in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," are united by their interest in the legendary category of people for which the story is named. Mrs. Hopewell tells a Bible salesman that "good country people are the salt of the earth!" ...
Woman as survivor in oates's rape: A love story.(Joyce Carol Oates)(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Chatterjee, Srirupa ... A contemporary Gothic narrative, Joyce Carol Oates's Rape: A Love Story (NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003) returns to her obsessive concern, namely, the distressing subject of sexual abuse. This paper seeks to show how in embracing a neo-feminist stance that moves beyond victimhood, the ...
Shelley and the waste land.(Percy Bysshe Shelley)(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Meyers, Jeffrey ... Shelley's poetry had an intoxicating effect on Eliot during his adolescence and teenage years and profoundly influenced many of his early poems (see Christopher Ricks' extensive notes to Eliot's Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917, NY, 1996). But his early enthusiasm later turned ...
Condemning the neutrals in oppressively dull worlds: look back in anger, a clockwork orange, and equus.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Stinson, John J. ... Feelings of personal malaise, national diminishment, and general torpor were by no means entirely lifted even when rationing of food and consumer products finally came to a total end in Britain in the early 1950s. Most creative writers, in various ways, gave expression to the national ...
Love on a three-day shoot: Waller's debt to Hemingway.(Robert James Waller, Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Monteiro, George ... In the more than fifteen years since it was first published in 1992, Robert James Waller's novella The Bridges of Madison County has been translated into twenty-five languages and has sold over twelve million copies. When it was first published, it made it to the top of the New York Times ...
