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Temporal paradoxes in narrative.
Jun 22, 2009; Ryan, Marie-Laure ... Our intuitive notion of time comprises tour fundamental beliefs: (1) time flows in a fixed direction; (2) you cannot fight this flow and go back in time; (3) causes always precede their effects and (4) the past is written once for all. This paper examines narratives that create alternative ...
Abortographism and the weapon of sympathy in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of A Sleepwalker.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Boren, Mark Edelman ... Conceived when the United States was in its infancy, facing an unknown future, and with dangers on all sides, Edgar Huntly; Or, Memoirs of A Sleepwalker has traditionally been read as a gothic novel that reflects the dire issues and chaos facing the new nation, and as giving birth to and ...
Pynchon's transition from ethos-based postmodernism to late-postmodern stylistics.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Kohn, Robert E. ... The Crying of Lot 49 was written while the postmodern ethos was developing. The essence of that ethos, which Pynchon helped shape, was the repudiation of modernity's unconditional faith in the inevitability of human betterment through scientific, technological, moral, and cultural ...
E. E. Cummings's parentheses: punctuation as poetic device.
Jun 22, 2009; Tartakovsky, Roi ... M. B. Parkes writes, is part of a text's pragmatics. Originating with a need to assist unskilled readers, punctuation communicates an interpretation of a written text, but is itself the object of interpretation, in conjunction with historical shifts. As semantically fuzzy, marks of ...
Everyday modernities.(Heidegger's Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts)(Given 1 Degree Art 2 Degrees Crime: Modernity, Murder And Mass Culture )(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Wolfreys, Julian ... Roger Ebhatson, Heidegger's Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006); ISBN 1-84519-105-6; pp.172+ix. Jean-Michel Rabate, Given: 10 Art 20 Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007); ISBN ...
William Baker. Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Vandersluis, Melora G. ... William Baker. Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 644 pp. ISBN 978-0-8160-6416-8. With biographical data, chapter-by-chapter overviews, and literary critiques of the breadth of Austen's work, William Baker's new release ...
Richard Cook. Alfred Kazin: A Biography.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Medici, Anthony G. ... Richard Cook. Alfred Kazin: A Biography. Yale UP, New Haven & London, 2007. 452pp, index, notes, illustrated. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-300-11505-5. Alfred Kazin broke onto the American literary scene in October 1942, at the young age of twenty-seven, with the publication of On Native ...
Jakob Lothe, Jeremy Hawthorn, and James Phelan, editors. Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Richardson, Brian ... Jakob Lothe, Jeremy Hawthorn, and James Phelan, editors. Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre. Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008. xii + 281 pp. $54.95 cloth, $23.95 paper, $9.95 CD. The introduction to this volume notes the ...
Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward, eds. 2006. Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Turner, Ken ... Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward, eds. 2006. Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. (Studies in Language Companion Series 80.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. xi + 350. For ...
Modern Language Association. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Abbott, Craig ... Modern Language Association. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: MLA, 2008. xxiv + 336 pp. $32.50 cloth. My guess is that most scholars who use the MLA style of documentation probably pick it up not through the MLA Style Manual but by way of ...
