Narrative back issues from May 2004:
Narrating the "life" of narrative.(Editor's Column)(Editorial)
May 01, 2004; ... While reading the January 2004 issue of Critical Inquiry, the one given over to short essays on the journal's future by the members of its distinguished editorial board, I took special notice of two pieces that include some reflections on the journal's beginnings. I gave these articles ...
What are we reading when we read autobiography?(Critical Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... It might be said that each of us constructs and lives a "narrative," and that this narrative is us, our identities. --Oliver Sacks In this statement Oliver Sacks makes as bold a claim for the function of self-narration in our lives as any I have ever encountered. His ...
The impersonal voice in first-person narrative fiction.(Critical Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... I. INTRODUCTION The analyses and discussions in this article are all aimed at clarifying a question that most people don't even ask because the answer seems self-evident: "Who narrates in first-person (or what most narratologists call homodiegetic) narrative fiction?" My ...
Generosity and the ghosts of poor laws passed.(Critical Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... Nothing in nature can be more disgusting than a parish pay-table ... nor in nature can anything be more beautiful than the mild complacency of benevolence, hastening to the humble cottage to relieve the wants of industry and virtue, to feed the hungry, to cloath the naked, and to sooth the ...
Hemingway's early illness narratives and the lyric dimensions of "Now I Lay Me".(Critical Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... I want to begin with a claim so basic it scarcely needs to be made: Hemingway's early stories--those of In Our Time and Men Without Women--are full of sick and injured characters, from the laboring woman of "Indian Camp" to bullfighter Manuel Garcia Maera, drowning from pneumonia in "A ...
Redefining intimacy: carver and conversation.(Critical Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... Raymond Carver's short story "Intimacy," a poignant exploration of the relationship between an ex-husband and ex-wife, paints for the reader a picture of this ex-couple's rocky history and their current estrangement. The ex-husband narrator, a relatively well-known writer of fiction, ...
"I've found him!": diagnostic narrative in The DSM-IV Casebook.(Critical Essay)
May 01, 2004; ... On admission to the psychiatric hospital, Louise sat with her hands tightly clasped in her lap and avoided looking at the doctor who interviewed her. She answered questions readily and did not appear suspicious or guarded, but her affect was shallow. She denied depressed mood, delusions, ...
No shame.(Dialogue)(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Robyn, congratulations on your fine book, Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms. As I read the text, many thoughts and feelings moved through me and my body. That I would separate those parts of my being into "me" and "my body" has much to do with what you address ...
Physiology, gender, and feeling: on cheering up.(Dialogue)
May 01, 2004; ... Kay, you summarize my argument beautifully. What's more, you brilliantly tease out the philosophical underpinnings of my project's refusal to buy into the Cartesian mind/body split, and you remind me of questions grounded in feminist epistemology that got me interested in my topic in the ...