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British and Irish Literature
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Literary Theory
Twentieth-Century Literature
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Conclusion: New Kids on the Virginia Woolf Block
A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway has examined how the ‘kids on the Virginia Woolf block’1 have employed the ‘mythical method’,2 borrowed and appropriated Woolf’s legacy, and mad...
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“Pale Whore, Pale Writer”: Is There Punishment for the Crime?
What appears to be one of the more essential problems with Dostoyevsky’s poetics in Crime and Punishment deals, simply, with his occasional lapse into often using the wrong word at the wrong time. Beyond the mys...
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Ugly Hairy Mounds, Fierce Hairy Armpits, and Sewer-Like Menstruations: Women as Vulgar Commodity in Fuentes’s The Old Gringo
One of the key responsibilities in criticism is not to ignore the seemingly machismo attitude Fuentes has towards women. In The Old Gringo machismo is not only apparent but vulgar and abhorrent. What is replete ...
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Gazing from the Inside: Lacan and an Endocrinological Notion of the Male “Gaze”
Needless to say, the influence of psychology on literary theory has, over the decades, been significant. Whether one has been influenced by depth psychology, the trend of the past, or critical theory and psych...
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Introduction
British popular and avant-garde literatures from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often conceptualized as dichotomies, as mutually exclusive opposites. The trajectory of their taxonomies, ...
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Introduction
What precipitated the writing of these essays was a suggestion from one of my graduate students, who also suggested the name of the course: “Women in Love and Other Emotional States.” I had previously taught a...
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“Blushes & Flushes”: Anna Karenina’s Shameful Physiology
Not unlike Dostoyevsky’s treatment of “paleness,” Tolstoy experiments with narrational blushing in a way untreated prior to Anna Karenina. Throughout the novel, Tolstoy’s characters either blush or flush at leas...
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Conclusion: ‘All Stories are Spatial Stories’
’suburbia’, as Roger Webster tell us ‘has no history’. The suburb has been, until recently, little examined and is rarely the focus of sustained cultural work. Furthermore, the archive of fictional works treat...
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Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left
In 2006 Lawrence Grossberg, the figure who played the most significant role in introducing the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies to the USA, published an essay ent...
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Virginia Woolf’s Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators
Mrs Dalloway’s postmodernist rewritings studied in Chapters 2 and 3 reveal the reverential or antagonistic dialogues between the hypotext and its contemporary hypertextual heirs. The aim of the present chapter is...
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‘Death is the mother of beauty’: Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium
If a single poetic line encapsulates the mythopoeic motive in Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium (1923) it is: ‘Death is the mother of beauty’.1 It is evidence that Stevens had adopted Nietzsche’s tragic view of nature —...
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Introduction
Utopia, the search for the good society, or at least a much improved one; and science, the pursuit of knowledge, both as an end in itself and for the betterment of human life. Surely the two should go together...
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‘Houseless — Homeless — Hopeless!’: Suburbs, Slums and Ghosts: 1830–1870
Suburbs have been a feature of London for centuries, yet London’s first recognisably modern suburbs, in the sense of living permanently near the city but not part of it began to appear in the latter decades of...
