Work by: Etel Adnan – Demosthenes Agrafiotis – Will Alexander – Rachel Tzvia Back – Dan Bellm – Aleksandr Blok – Pura López Colomé – Colin Dayan – René Depestre – Rachel Blau DuPlessis – Marcella Durand – Sarah Tuss Efrik – Elke Erb – Peter France – Johannes Göransson – David Hadbawnik – Larry Kearney – Alexis Levitin – Brian Lucas – Michèle Méta…[Read more]

This book-length paper is a Brown University dissertation in American literature and literary theory. A theoretical analysis of the concept of authorial intention in narrative fiction, and of its structural and communicational implications, is followed by an in-depth examination of Stephen Crane’s novella ‘The Monster’ (1898) as a case study in…[Read more]

This paper derives from an M.A. dissertation on Stephen Crane (“Reading ‘The Monster’,” Brown University, 1989). It examines the critical reception of Stephen Crane’s story ‘The Monster,’ with a special focus on the issue of racial representation and on the way authorial intentions bearing on this issue are constructed by critics. The critical…[Read more]

This is about the personal and political relationships between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott

This article examines the combination of 17th century and 19th progressivism in Hawthorne’s work.

This essay argues that the subject of impotence is much more profoundly intrinsic to The Scarlet Letter than has previously been argued.

Profile of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance by Maggie Coughlin Worth in the Romance Writers of America newsletter, Romance Writers Report

‘If God Meant to Interfere’: Evolution and Theodicy in Blood Meridian

On the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
significant intellectual departure from the standpoint alle…[Read more]

contents

i. weed weakens / compels me

ii. an Ender’s Game after-party

iii. playroom is a realm of the dead

iv. a precise german History

v. short review: STATUES ALSO DIE

vi. Kenneth Clark, curator for Fascism

vii. a protest poem, in industry lit

viii. Lawrence & the English Romance

including readings of Joseph McElroy, Tolkien, Norman Rush, Sartre, and others

a poetic condensing of the larger work

on apocalypse, shakespeare, Clarke’s Third Law, the corporate take-over of Star Wars and else

a four-year journal / longpoem, @ Twitter

a longpoem

In this article, I argue that the groundlessness associated with postmodernism is not as entrenched within its discourse as it may appear. Graham Swift’s Waterland (1992) and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), while conforming to many of the aesthetic values of postmodernism, share an ecopostmodernist platform that raises questions and con…[Read more]

Presents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.

در پژوهش¬های متعدد، ارتباط میان حافظ و امرسن بررسی و در این زمینه، بیشتر بر تأثیر حافظ بر امرسن و گاه شباهت میان آن‌دو یا شیفتگی امرسن به حافظ تأکید شده است؛ اما جنبه¬های تاریخی این ارتباط و چرایی آن بررسی نشده است. توجه به آمریکای قرن نوزدهم، جنبش¬ها و گفتمان¬های سیاسی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی این کشور، پژوهش حاضر را به نتایجی روشنگر رهنمون می¬شود.…[Read more]

Four conceptualizations of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature provide a basis for this history and its historiography. Three of these pertain to cultural works produced at least in part by Native Americans: these are (1) written representations of Native American spoken performances, or “oral literature”; (2) wri…[Read more]