Recently added articles from Papers on Language & Literature:
Eric Ambler's revisionist thrillers: Epitaph for a spy, A Coffin for Dimitrios, and the Intercom Conspiracy.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Below a grainy photograph of the author, then eighty years old, the back dust jacket of Mysterious Press's 1990 revised hardcover edition of Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier (1936), the first of his eighteen novels, proclaims that he "virtually created the modern espionage story." More than ...
"Perverse fantasies"? Rehabilitating Malvolio's reading.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... It is now a commonplace notion that Malvolio's reading of Maria's letter in 2.5 of Twelfth Night satirizes the Puritans' approach to interpreting the Bible. (1) The play's first audiences seem to have appreciated the joke: in his diary of a Candlemas performance at the Middle Temple on 2 ...
Sexuality in Hamlin Garland's Rose of Dutcher's Coolly.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The history of the creation of Rose of Dutcher's Coolly is one of older ideas reshaped in response to fresh circumstances. (1) Garland had made notes in 1890 for a story about a Wisconsin farm girl whose intellectual development renders her dissatisfied with farm life, and during 1892 and ...
Boroughs and neighbors: traumatic solidarity in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, was released to overwhelming expectation, anticipating both its failure and its success. The novel follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell on a quest to discover the meaning behind a small key left in an envelope labeled ...
Translating Modern Urdu Poetry.(An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry: In English Translation)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; ... An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry: In English Translation, with Urdu Text. Ed. and Trans. M. A. R. Habib. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. 198 pages. $9.95. In early nineteenth-century British Colonial India (in the transition period from East India ...