Recently added articles from College Literature:
Tragic lives: on the incompatibility of law and ethics.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Hogan, Patrick Colm ... Patrick Colm Hogan Tragic Lives: On the Incompatibility of Law and Ethics A common view, shared by legal theorists and ordinary people, is that there is and should be a close, positive relation between ethics and law, that law should, and commonly does, embody ethical ...
Trial separations: divorce, disestablishment, and home rule in Phineas Redux.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Frank, Cathrine O. ... Cathrine O. Frank Trial Separations: Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule in Phineas Redux Phineas Redux (1874), the fourth of Anthony Trollope's "political" novels, depicts several unions between parties who remain formally tied to one another although they have no ...
Doctors, detectives, and the professional ideal: the trial of Thomas Neill Cream and the mastery of Sherlock Holmes.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Reiter, Paula J. ... Paula J. Reiter Doctors, Detectives, and the Professional Ideal": The Trial of Thomas Neill Cream and Home Rule in Phineas Redux The 1892 trial of serial killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream put both Cream and the professionals involved in the case on trial. The judge simultaneously ...
A "complex, multiform creature" no more: governmentality Getting Wilde.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Higgins, Lesley J. ... Lesley J. Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps A "Complex, Multiform Creature" No More: Governmentality Getting Wilde This paper investigates the trials of Oscar Wilde from two converging perspectives: their individualizing effects on Wilde, and their effectiveness in defining, for ...
The common law illusion: literary justice in Coleridge's on the Constitution of the Church and State.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Barr, Mark L. ... Mark L. Barr The Common Law Illusion: Literary Justice in Coleridge's On the Constitution of the Church and State This paper traces Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with issues of legal interpretation late in his career and most particularly in On the Constitution of the ...
Law of the intangible: desegregation, diversity, and the individual.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Britt, Theron ... Theron Britt 142 Law of the Intangible: Desegregation, Diversity and the Individual This essay examines two related U.S. Supreme Court eases concerning school desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and Parents Involved in Community Schools p. Seattle ...
Grand juries, legal machines, and the common man jury.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Myrsiades, Linda S. ... Linda S. Myrsiades Grand Juries, Legal Machines, and the Common Man Jury This paper focuses on the concept of a jury of one's neighbors, that is, the common man jury. It traces this construction through two eighteenth-century trails (the trials of John Peter Zenger, 1735, and ...
Geography and English identity in the Middle Ages.('Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature' and 'Angels on the Age of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534')(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Magennis, Hugh ... Michelet, Fabienne. 2006. Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $99.00 he. xiv + 297 pp. Lavezzo, Kathy, 2006. Angels on the Age of the World: Geography, Literature, and English ...
Sara Ahmed. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke UP, 2006. $74.95 hc. $21.95 sc. ix + 240pp.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Ruchti, Elizabeth Simon ... In her book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), Sara Ahmed offers a thorough and at times playful analysis of what it means to be oriented--oriented toward objects, ideas, cultures, and sexes. Though certainly not an easy read--Ahmed draws on Marxist theory, ...
Muldoon, Paul. 2006. The End of the Poem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30.00 hc. $17.00 sc. 406 pp.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Kobylinski, Wayne ... At about the midpoint of The End of the Poem. Paul Muldoon cites the opinion of Octavio Paz: "In theory, only poets should translate poetry; in practice, poets are rarely good translators. They almost invariably use the foreign poem as a point of departure for their own" (204).Taking a ...
William Blake's Poetry A Reader's Guide.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Rovira, James ... Roberts, Jonathan. 2007. William Blake's Poetry A Reader's Guide. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. $75.00 hc. $14.95 sc. xii + 124 pp. The strengths of Jonathan Roberts's William Blake's Poetry largely depend upon the uses to which it is put. The volume is ...
Kofman, Sarah. 2007. Selected Writings. Ed.Thomas Albrecht. Stanford: Stanford University Press.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Payne, Michael ... The range and variety of Sarah Kofman's thought are suggested by the five-part division in Thomas Albrecht's excellent new edition of the Selected Writings: papers on Freud, on Nietzsche, on women in philosophy, on painting, and on Judaism and anti-Semitism. For some time I have been ...
Notice of erratum.(Correction notice)
Jun 22, 2008 ... In College Literature 35.1 (Winter 2008): 198-208 ...
Books received January 16, 2008 to April 15, 2008.(Appendix)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Ahl, Frederick, ed. and trans. 2008. Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrennus and Seneca's Oedipus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $55.00 he. $16 sc. 280 pp. Appiah. Peggy, Kwame Appiah, and Ivor Agyeman-Duah. 2008. Bu Me Be: Proverbs of the Akans. Oxfordshire: ...