Topics
The Idea of Tolerance in Pre-Revolutionary England
Paronomasia in the English Renaissance and After
- Paronomasia in the Quip Modest: From Sidney to Herbert
2.3 (1992): 223-33 - Paronomastics: The Name of the Poet from Shakespeare and Donne to Glück and Morgan
2.2 (1992): 115-25 - Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet
2.1 (1992): 182-85 - From Etymology to Paronomasia: Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Others
2.1 (1992): 34-51 - A very Antony: Patterns of Antonomasia in Shakespeare
4.1-2 (1994/95): 8-24
A Place Revisited
- A Place revisited: Editor's Preface
7.2 (1997/98): 141-42 - Revisiting Halberstadt, July 1997
7.2 (1997/98): 143-45 - Colin Clout's Homecoming: The Imaginative Travels of Edmund Spenser
7.2 (1997/98): 146-58 - Old England, Nostalgia, and the "Warwickshire" of Shakespeare's Mind
7.1 (1997/98): 159-80 - Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey": From Self-Consciousness to Sympathy
7.2 (1997/98): 181-93 - A Place Revisited: The House at The Jolly Corner
7.2 (1997/98): 194-202 - Dickens' A Christmas Carol: Revisiting and Reformation
7.3 (1997/98): 255-72 - The Sepulchral City Revisited: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
7.3 (1997/98): 273-89 - Revisitings and Repetitions in Beckett's Later Works
7.3 (1997/98): 290-305 - Nightmare Visions of Eden: Recollections of Home in Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River"
7.3 (1997/98): 306-19 - Paradise Remembered in Some Poems and Paintings
7.3 (1997/98): 320-31 - A Pattern of the Mind: The Country House Poem Revisited
8.1 (1998/99): 22-57
The Poetics of Conversation in Twentieth-Century Literature and Criticism
- Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 106-23 - How to Have a Conversation with Gertrude Stein: An Essay in Four Steps
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 124-46 - Robert Frost's Conversational Style
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 147-59 - "He do the Police in Different Voices": A Bakhtinian Take on Conversational Modes in some Modern British Poets
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 160-74 - "A kind of musical conversation": Britten and Crozier's Let's Make an Opera!
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 175-206 - Conversational Echoes in Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (1989)
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 207-23 - 'Conversation' among Pragmatist Philosophers
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 224-42 - Poetics and Conversation
10.2-3 (2000/2001): 243-67 - The Poetics of Conversation in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
11.1 (2001/2002): 1-28 - "Weisst du noch, dass ich sang?" Conversation in Celan's Poetry
11.1 (2001/2002): 29-41 - "Fortuitous Wit": Dialogue and Epistemology in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
11.1 (2001/2002): 42-59
Poetry as Procreation
- Riddles of Procreation
8.3 (1998/1999): 269-82 - 'The Poets Deliver': Procreation, Communication, and Incarnation in Sidney and Wordsworth
8.3 (1998/1999): 283-93 - Reproducing Living Organisms: Ben Jonson's Dramaturgy of Procreation
8.3 (1998/1999): 294-303 - Poetry as Procreation: John Dryden's Creative Concept of Poetry and Imitation
8.3 (1998/1999): 340-318 - Byron's Procreative Poetry
8.3 (1998/1999): 319-24 - Faulkner and the Problematics of Procreation
8.3 (1998/1999): 325-37 - Cold Monuments: Three Accounts of the Reception of Poetry
9.1 (1999/2000): 34-42 - The Mysterious Genesis of Paradise Lost
9.1 (1999/2000): 57-70 - Poetic Procreation in Edward Taylor's Meditations
9.1 (1999/2000): 71-82 - A Visitation of Kipling's Daemon?
9.1 (1999/2000): 83-99 - W. B. Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter": The Ironies of the Patriarchal Stance
9.1 (1999/2000): 100-10 - Agency in Vaughan's Sacred Poetry: Creative Acts or Divine Gifts?
9.2 (1999/2000): 174-89
The Presence of Myth in American Literature
- Mythical Aspects of Poe's Detective
5.2-3 (1995/96): 131-46 - Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe
5.2-3 (1995/96): 147-66 - The Myth of the Self in Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Traherne's "Thanksgivings": A Hypothesis
5.2-3 (1995/96): 167-86 - Mythfying Africa
5.2-3 (1995/96): 187-207 - The Language of Dogs: Mythos and Logos in Emily Dickinson
5.2-3 (1995/96): 208-27 - Modern Republicanism and the Education of Achilles: An Interpretation of Tom Sawyer
and 5.2-3 (1995/96): 228-39 - Noble Imagery: Wallace Stevens and Mesoamerican Mythology
5.2-3 (1995/96): 240-58 - Faulkner and Racial Mythology
5.2-3 (1995/96): 259-78 - Mythic Sex in Mississippi: Eula and Ike Snopes
5.2-3 (1995/96): 276-83 - The Control Machine: Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs.
6.3 (1996/97): 284-303 - The Myth of the American Adam in Late Mailer.
5.2-3 (1995/96): 304-21 - The Woods, the West, and Icarus's Mother: Myth in the Contemporary American Theatre.
5.2-3 (1995/96): 339-54
"Restored from Death" in Literature and Literary Theory
- Painful Restoration: Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World
17.2-3: 129-43 - Resurrection as Blasphemy in Canto 5 of Edmund Spenser's The Legend of Holiness
16.1-3:1-10 - Donne's Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word
17.1: 1-13 - Echo Restored: A Reading of George Herbert's "Heaven"
16.1-3: 11-25 - The Trials and Tribulations of the revenants: Narrative Techniques and the Fragmented Hero in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier
16.1-3: 26-46 - Decadence and Renewal in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
16.1-3: 47-59 - The Intrusion of Old Times: Ghosts and Resurrections in Hardy, Joyce and Beyond
17.1: 14-28 - "Stand and live": Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Robert Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle
17.1: 29-60 - The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Alias Grace
16.1-3: 60-91 - For/From Lew: The Ghost Visitations of Lew Welch and the Art of Zen FailureA Dialogue for Two Voices
16.1-3: 92-115 - Dis(re)membering History's revenants: Trauma, Writing, and Simulated Orality in Toni Morrison's Beloved
16.1-3: 116-36
Roads Not Taken
- Roads Not Taken
18.1-3: 1-5 - State super vias, et videte, et interrogate de viis antiquis que sit bona, et ambulate in ea
18.1-3: 6-27 - Roads-Not-Taken, Taken by the Adapter: The Case of Biblical Samson
18.1-3: 28-47 - Secrets Not Revealed: Possible Stories in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
18.1-3: 58-81 - Henry James's Double-Bind: Chasing Possibilities in "The Jolly Corner"
18.1-3: 82-103 - The Family Reunion: Eliot, James, and the Buried Life
18.1-3: 104-22 - "The Road Not Taken" in Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
18.1-3: 123-38 - Joe Orton's Laodicean Tragedy: The Good and Faithful Servant
18.1-3: 139-50 - Pynchon Takes the Fork in the Road
18.1-3: 151-82
Sympathetic Parody
- Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy
13.3: 191-212 - Spenser's Parody
12.1: 1-13 - Shakespeare's Falstaff as Parody
12.2-3: 105-25 - Parody, Satire and Sympathy in Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels
12.2-3: 126-38 - Parody as Cultural Memory in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2
12.2-3: 139-54 - The Trials of Sincerity: William Godwin's Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
13.3: 213-29 - A Good Natured Warning: Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno"
13.3: 230-45 - Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest
13.1-2: 32-55 - "Across the pale parabola of Joy": Wodehouse Parodist
13.1-2: 56-76 - Elizabeth Bishop's "The Prodigal" as a Sympathetic Parody
12.1: 14-34 - Parody and Self-Parody in David Mamet
13.1-2: 77-88
Textual Surprises
- Robinson Crusoe, "The Others" and the Poetics of Surprise
14.1-3: 1-18 - "Alice was not surprised": (Un)Surprises in Lewis Carroll's Alice-Books
14.1-3: 19-37 - Textual, Contextual and Critical Surprises in "Désirée's Baby"
14.1-3: 38-67 - Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith's "The Sinner"
14.1-3: 68-86 - "These things astonish me beyond words": Wordplay in William Carlos Williams's Poetry
14.1-3: 87-108 - Pivots, Reversals, and Things in the Aesthetic Economy of Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham
15.1-3: 1-16 - Tender Is What Night? Surprises in the Growth of Fitzgerald's Fourth Novel
14.1-3: 109-18 - Unscrambling Surprises
15.1-3: 17-29 - The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov's Sources: Some New Ideas on Lolita's Intertextual Links
14.1-3: 119-34 - Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and "The Poem" and "Restoration"
15.1-3: 30-57 - Perversions and Reversals of Childhood and Old Age in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
15.1-3: 58-91 - John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise
14.1-3: 135-61