Recently added articles from West Virginia University Philological Papers:
Introduction.
Sep 22, 2006 ... This present volume featuring refereed articles on the theme, "Imaginary Places," originally delivered at the thirtieth annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, September 15-17, 2005, reveals, I think, some of the many ways in which to interpret the challenge set before our participants ....
Paradise Imagined *.
Sep 22, 2006; ... VENICE When you fly into Venice, you arrive at a new airport named after the city's most famous son, Marco Polo, the thirteenth-century traveler. Then, as you cross the lagoon by motorboat to your hotel, you see Venice rising from the water, a mirage, Shangri La, Bali Hai, ...
Heroic matriculation: the academies of Spenser, Lewis, and Rowling.(Edmund Spenser, J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... C.N. Manlove in Modern Fantasy: Five Studies defines fantasy as a "fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of the supernatural ... [which] can produce an imprint on our imaginations deep enough to give it a measure of truth or reality" (12). The ...
Terrifying beauty: the imaginary world of Garrett Serviss.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Lunar mountains glittering with diamonds and asteroids formed of gold. Cities bathed in light and forests soaring a thousand feet above red vegetation. These splendors astonish Thomas Edison and the crews of his spaceships on their voyage through space to Mars. (1) Six weeks ...
A princess of where? Burroughs's imaginary lack of place.(Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars in 1911, and All-Story Magazine published it as a pulp serial in 1912. The novel tells the story of John Carter's journey to the fourth planet, which the natives call Barsoom. At the time of the novel's publication, manned space flight was an ...
Hollywood as imaginary in the work of Horacio Quiroga and Ramon Gomez de la Serna.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... During the Silent Film Era, two important writers initiate a round of filmic narrative: Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937, Uruguay) and Ramon Gomez de la Serna (1888-1963, Spain). Their fiction thematically incorporates the celluloid art, its makers, actors, and spectators, its inherent ...
Borges and tango: imagining Argentina.(Jorge Luis Borges)
Sep 22, 2006; ... To a blind man, all places are, visually speaking, imaginary. However vivid his memories of a city, a street, a house, or a room, what he actually visualizes is no more and no less real than his own imagination. Jorge Luis Borges, who went blind in mid-life, is famous for his fantastic ...
City of souls: Yeats's Byzantium as an imaginary place.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... There are eight million stories in the naked city but no master narrative. Real cities are chaotic if not quite random, noisy and confused, immersed in what Dickens in Little Dorritt calls "the usual uproar." Imaginary cities, however, are not bound by the vagaries either of history or ...
Ireland as an imaginary place in W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... With the exception of The Player Queen, The Resurrection, Calvary, and the two Oedipus adaptations, all of Yeats plays appear to take place in Ireland. In some cases, as with The Dreaming of the Bones where a true Yeatsian may actually trace each stop along the Young Man and two ghosts' ...
Creativity and destruction: Robert Kroetsch's Notikeewin Trilogy.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... After European explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth century found the North American land mass--assuming it was India and naming the indigene people Indians--it became a mythic new world for the Europeans. The idea of the discovery of North America is an imaginative rather than a ...
Goodbye Lenin, hello GDR that never was.(Vladimir Lenin)(German Democratic Republic)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Two films, which were made thirty years apart, try to come to terms with daily life in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. One film was produced in the former East Germany and the other in the reunified Germany: Die Legende von Paul und Paula (dir. Heiner Carow, 1973) and Good Bye, Lenin! (dir ....
The Imagined Communities of Quebec's science fiction and fantasy: Esther Rochon's Cycle de Vrenalik.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... In Imagined Communities (1983, 1991) Benedict Anderson argues that national identity represents the product of a collective imagination rather than a real phenomenon. The evolving image of the "nation" of Quebec clearly illustrates this concept. From the arrival of the first French ...
Fictional socialism: blurring genre boundaries in Alex de la Iglesia's Mutant Action.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Critics and filmmakers frequently attribute the dearth of Spanish science fiction films to the lack of money for financing special effects that can compete with those of US movies. Following the catastrophic failure of Fernando Colomo's El caballero del Dragon in 1985, Spanish efforts in ...
Magical places in Isabel Allende's Eva Luna and Cuentos De Eva Luna.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Widely recognized as a major contributor to Latin American literature, Isabel Allende holds a preeminent place in its literary history. In The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction (1998), Donald Shaw writes" "Without question the major literary event in Spanish America during the early ...
At ease in Zion? Imaginary places in James' Journey to Jerusalem.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... In an early scene in the feature film James' Journey to Jerusalem, illegal migrant workers in an Israeli prison draw a map on the wall of their cell. Various places are identifiable on the map: Belgrade, Bucharest, Manila, Sofia. The Philippines are right next to Romania. While the ...
From Stella Dallas to Lila Lipscomb: reading real motherhood through reel motherhood *.
Sep 22, 2005; ... This essay traces a history of motherhood in American narrative cinema, but I want to start with an image that falls outside those parameters, since it is documentary. Michael Moore's latest film, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) introduces us to forty-nine-year-old Lila Lipscomb. Lipscomb is from ...
Red mothers and white milk: maternal lactation and American Indians in post-revolutionary France.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Between 1793-1800, the seven-year period in which the influential French author Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand wrote his immensely popular New World romance Atala, Napoleon rose to power within France. These were the years of the Haitian Revolution, and the beginning of French colonial ...
A perfect murder: mother/daughter relations in Pavlova's A Double Life.(Karolina Pavlova)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life (1848) presents the story of Cecilia von Lindenborn, a heroine whose fate is particularly representative of a young aristocratic woman in early nineteenth-century Russia. Her novel provides a harsh criticism of nineteenth-century domestic ideology through ...
Hoarding motherhood in Silas Marner.(Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Human beliefs, like all other natural growths elude the barriers of system. George Eliot The doctrine of separate spheres has long served a double function: as historical master narrative and as a set of ideas that has proven especially useful to feminist critics and scholars of ...
The mythical theory of impregnation in Zola's Madeleine Ferat and L'assommoir.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Promulgated by the French physician Prosper Lucas in nineteenth-century France, the theory of impregnation, an imagined physiological process, relates to the indelible mark left on a woman by her first lover, who even influences inseminations in which he does not participate. In this ...