Recently added articles from Style:
A mind enslaved?: the interaction of metaphor, cognitive distance, and narrative framing in Chesnutt's "Dave's Neckliss".
Dec 22, 2008; ... Charles Chesnutt--African-American novelist, essayist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries--has become the subject of intense scholarly interest in recent years, particularly for his "conjure tales," which Robert Bone once called "the most important product of ...
Unreadable minds and the captive reader.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Alan Palmer, Lisa Zunshine, George Butte and others have been building the case for reframing the action of novels as a busy, collective reading and misreading of minds. Their work at once draws on and supports the idea that we have an evolved craving to read the minds of others and a ...
Text-alteration as an interpretive teaching strategy: the case of "The Snow Man".(The Pedagogy of Literature)
Dec 22, 2008; ... However problematic interpretation is, it remains essential, even if close reading is now too often only a prelude to some more distant kind of reading. I will not quite argue here, with Rob Pope, that "The best way to understand how a text works ... is to change it: to play around with ...
Updike gets his mojo back.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Stacey Olster, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. Xvi + 193 pp. Hardback $75.00; paperback $24.99. Once upon a time, John Updike lost his mojo. For me, anyway. Back in the mid-1960s, just out of graduate school and reading Updike for the ...
Narrative and the minds of others.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Daniel D. Hutto, Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. xxiv + 343 pp. Theorists of narrative have recently begun drawing on developments in the cognitive sciences, including cognitive, evolutionary, and ...
Brian Baker. Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Brian Baker. Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000. London: Continuum, 2006. Brian Baker's Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000 explores a range of popular novels and films in terms of how their ...
Vera Nunning, ed.: Der zeitgenossische englische Roman. Genres--Entwicklungen--Modellinterpretationen.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Vera Nunning, ed. Der zeitgenossische englische Roman. Genres--Entwicklungen--Modellinterpretationen. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT-Handbucher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium 9), 2007. 264 pp., $24.50. Published as part of the successful WVT-handbooks series ...
Susan B. Rosenbaum. Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture and the Crisis in Reading.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Susan B. Rosenbaum. Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture and the Crisis in Reading. U of Virginia P, 2007. xii + 283 pp. $39.50. When Lionel Trilling defined "sincerity" as "a congruence between avowal and actual feeling," he was well aware that artists ...
Andrew J. Majeske. Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Andrew J. Majeske. Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser. New York: Rontledge, 2006. ix + 217 pp. The author states the purpose of this revised dissertation early in his introduction: <Pre>This book will establish a broad historical ...
John Scattergood. Manuscripts and Ghosts: Essays on the Transmission of Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature.
Dec 22, 2008; ... John Scattergood. Manuscripts and Ghosts: Essays on the Transmission of Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature. Dublin: Four Courts, 2006. 320 pp. $65 cloth. John Scattergood's Manuscripts and Ghosts brings together a selection of eleven previously published essays (2-10, 12, ...
R.M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo, eds.: Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation.
Dec 22, 2008; ... R. M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo, eds. Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation. Albany: State U of New York P, 2008. xv + 295 pp. $74.50 cloth; $24.95 paper. Berry and Di Leo's edited collection, originally derived from a special issue of symploke in ...
Peter C. Herman, ed.: Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Peter C. Herman, ed. Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose. New York: MLA, 2007. xii + 284 pp. $37.50. Peter Herman begins the Preface to this book by noting that "teaching Milton's shorter poetry and prose presents several obstacles beyond the usual ...
William Baker. Harold Pinter.
Dec 22, 2008; ... William Baker. Harold Pinter. London and New York: Continuum, 2008. Writers' Lives. 166 pp. $50.00 cloth. $19.95 paper. I packed the review copy of William Baker's Harold Pinter and headed off to France for a family Christmas. With the deadline for submission falling on the ...
John V. Knapp. Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise.
Dec 22, 2008; ... John V. Knapp. Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2008, 310 pp. How can one teach literature (especially old literature) to modern undergraduates who must learn "from scant beginnings"? "We know that expert teachers run a better ...
Helen Wilcox, ed.: The English Poems of George Herbert.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Helen Wilcox, ed. The English Poems of George Herbert. Cambridge UP, 2007, xlv + 740 pp. $180 hardcover. It is somewhat intimidating to review for a journal called Style the work of a great stylist edited by a scholar whose own style I have admired for many years, always ...
Amit Marcus. Self-Deception in Literature and Philosophy.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Amit Marcus. Self-Deception in Literature and Philosophy. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. 232 pp. Amit Marcus' first book, based on his 2006 Ph.D. dissertation, can be approached from two perspectives: that of its method, including recta-theoretical assumptions and ...
Sarah Graham. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Sarah Graham. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Routledge Guides to Literature, 2007, 128 pp. $14.95 paper. If writing literary scholarship especially--but far from exclusively--on contemporary authors can be viewed as investing in futures, it might have been wise, from ...
James Phelan. Experiencing Fiction: Judgements, Progressions and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative.
Dec 22, 2008; ... James Phelan. Experiencing Fiction: Judgements, Progressions and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007. 249 pp. $74.95 cloth; $24.95 paper; $9.95 CD. In a famous essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (1953), Isaiah Berlin muses on the remark of the Greek ...
Craig Abbott. Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Craig Abbott. Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, 2007. xii-192 pp. Literary forgery is prompted by multifarious motives: the literary ambition of Thomas Chatterton can be balanced by the commercial ruthlessness of Thomas Wise; the ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In my 2007 article in Volume 41.1 of Style, "What if I Sang: The Intonation of Allen Ginsberg's Performances," I state that G. Burns Cooper collected his data on the intonation of performed poetry by ear. Cooper makes it quite clear in Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse (1998), that ...