ABSTRACT:Many have interpreted Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest as a farce or a satire. Such commentators presuppose that Wilde disagrees with the values his characters espouse and inverts the serious and the trivial either for the sake of amusement (farce) or for the sake of critique (satire). If, however, one assumes that Wilde agrees with his characters’ values, then a different interpretation emerges, one that examines the characters’ views in light of a value system that regards beauty and pleasure as its highest virtues. Thus, the trivial becomes serious and the serious becomes trivial.
{"title":"The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest","authors":"John G. Peters","doi":"10.7560/tsll65303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Many have interpreted Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest as a farce or a satire. Such commentators presuppose that Wilde disagrees with the values his characters espouse and inverts the serious and the trivial either for the sake of amusement (farce) or for the sake of critique (satire). If, however, one assumes that Wilde agrees with his characters’ values, then a different interpretation emerges, one that examines the characters’ views in light of a value system that regards beauty and pleasure as its highest virtues. Thus, the trivial becomes serious and the serious becomes trivial.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"273 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46262393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Is there anything new left to say about Huxley’s Brave New World ninety years later? The novel has been analyzed for its sociopolitical predictions, read against 1984, and examined for its satire of Wells and Ford. Common to such approaches is the assumption that the World State is as abhorrently stable as the narrative claims. This essay’s argument holds that the World State’s success is counterfactually reported and undermined for parodic effect, and that Brave New World functions as a humorous mock-dystopia.
{"title":"Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World","authors":"Kenneth Eckert","doi":"10.7560/tsll65302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65302","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Is there anything new left to say about Huxley’s Brave New World ninety years later? The novel has been analyzed for its sociopolitical predictions, read against 1984, and examined for its satire of Wells and Ford. Common to such approaches is the assumption that the World State is as abhorrently stable as the narrative claims. This essay’s argument holds that the World State’s success is counterfactually reported and undermined for parodic effect, and that Brave New World functions as a humorous mock-dystopia.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"252 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44748562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-26eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.48
Martyna E Lagoda, Keelin O'Driscoll, Maria C Galli, José J Cerón, Alba Ortín-Bustillo, Joanna Marchewka, Laura A Boyle
Prenatal stress is the mechanism through which poor welfare of pregnant sows has detrimental effects on the health and resilience of their piglets. We compared two gestation housing systems (IMPROVED versus [conventional] CONTROL) in terms of sow stress and welfare indicators and sought to determine whether potential benefits to the sows would translate into improved offspring health. Sows were mixed into 12 stable groups (six groups per treatment, 20 sows per group) 29 days post-service in pens with free-access, full-length individual feeding/lying-stalls. CONTROL pens had fully slatted concrete floors, with two blocks of wood and two chains suspended in the group area. IMPROVED pens were the same but with rubber mats and manila rope in each stall, and straw provided in three racks in the group area. Saliva was collected from each sow on day 80 of pregnancy and analysed for haptoglobin. Hair cortisol was measured in late gestation. Sows' right and left eyes were scored for tear staining in mid lactation and at weaning. Numbers of piglets born alive, dead, mummified, and total born were recorded. Piglets were weighed and scored for vitality and intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) at birth. Presence of diarrhoea in farrowing pens was scored every second day throughout the suckling period. IMPROVED sows had lower haptoglobin levels and tear-stain scores during lactation. IMPROVED sows produced fewer mummified piglets, and these had significantly lower IUGR scores, and scored lower for diarrhoea than piglets of CONTROL sows. Hence, improving sow welfare during gestation improved the health and performance of their offspring.
{"title":"Indicators of improved gestation housing of sows. Part II: Effects on physiological measures, reproductive performance and health of the offspring.","authors":"Martyna E Lagoda, Keelin O'Driscoll, Maria C Galli, José J Cerón, Alba Ortín-Bustillo, Joanna Marchewka, Laura A Boyle","doi":"10.1017/awf.2023.48","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2023.48","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prenatal stress is the mechanism through which poor welfare of pregnant sows has detrimental effects on the health and resilience of their piglets. We compared two gestation housing systems (IMPROVED versus [conventional] CONTROL) in terms of sow stress and welfare indicators and sought to determine whether potential benefits to the sows would translate into improved offspring health. Sows were mixed into 12 stable groups (six groups per treatment, 20 sows per group) 29 days post-service in pens with free-access, full-length individual feeding/lying-stalls. CONTROL pens had fully slatted concrete floors, with two blocks of wood and two chains suspended in the group area. IMPROVED pens were the same but with rubber mats and manila rope in each stall, and straw provided in three racks in the group area. Saliva was collected from each sow on day 80 of pregnancy and analysed for haptoglobin. Hair cortisol was measured in late gestation. Sows' right and left eyes were scored for tear staining in mid lactation and at weaning. Numbers of piglets born alive, dead, mummified, and total born were recorded. Piglets were weighed and scored for vitality and intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) at birth. Presence of diarrhoea in farrowing pens was scored every second day throughout the suckling period. IMPROVED sows had lower haptoglobin levels and tear-stain scores during lactation. IMPROVED sows produced fewer mummified piglets, and these had significantly lower IUGR scores, and scored lower for diarrhoea than piglets of CONTROL sows. Hence, improving sow welfare during gestation improved the health and performance of their offspring.</p>","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"48 1","pages":"e52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936399/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88535749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract: A. R. Ammons's strange first volume, Ommateum (1955), failed upon delivery, leaving the poet stalled and depressed. This article examines Ammons's book as both an aesthetic object, or an arrangement of utterances, and a gesture in the literary field by a poet unfamiliar with the game. Following William McNeill, I argue that the question of "the accessibility of other beings" is the question upon which Ammons's early career turns. A set of animal poems of 1958, arising from an access of childhood feeling and memory, provides the "kindness" that is the key to Ammons's post-Ommateum transformation.
{"title":"Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons","authors":"Kevin McGuirk","doi":"10.7560/tsll65202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65202","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: A. R. Ammons's strange first volume, Ommateum (1955), failed upon delivery, leaving the poet stalled and depressed. This article examines Ammons's book as both an aesthetic object, or an arrangement of utterances, and a gesture in the literary field by a poet unfamiliar with the game. Following William McNeill, I argue that the question of \"the accessibility of other beings\" is the question upon which Ammons's early career turns. A set of animal poems of 1958, arising from an access of childhood feeling and memory, provides the \"kindness\" that is the key to Ammons's post-Ommateum transformation.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"140 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47556349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This article traces Korean intellectual interest in Lord Byron's work during the colonial period in Korea. The early attention to Byron began with scholars' studies of English literature in Japan and continued in so-called pure literature in the 1920s. As antipathy grew toward Japan, a focus on Byron's rebelliousness emerged in the journals of the Korean literary coteries. Studies of Byron at the imperial university in Seoul reveal how both students and faculty had to navigate between allegiance to Korea and presumed loyalty to Japan. Though interest in Byron was often complicated, he emerged as a symbol of resistance and freedom for Korean intellectuals.
{"title":"Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron","authors":"Jaekwon Park","doi":"10.7560/tsll65204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65204","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article traces Korean intellectual interest in Lord Byron's work during the colonial period in Korea. The early attention to Byron began with scholars' studies of English literature in Japan and continued in so-called pure literature in the 1920s. As antipathy grew toward Japan, a focus on Byron's rebelliousness emerged in the journals of the Korean literary coteries. Studies of Byron at the imperial university in Seoul reveal how both students and faculty had to navigate between allegiance to Korea and presumed loyalty to Japan. Though interest in Byron was often complicated, he emerged as a symbol of resistance and freedom for Korean intellectuals.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"180 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48851367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This article examines the political significance, and the limitations, of the representation of the Black patriarchal figure in Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America, and how the (re)writing of Black domesticity is central to the novel's blueprint for Black citizenship. While Delany's novel imagines a political coalition founded upon a Black domestic order, the representation of the Black patriarchy delimits Black female agency as it also reemphasizes the gendered hierarchy within domesticity.
{"title":"The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America","authors":"Joohee Seo","doi":"10.7560/tsll65203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65203","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines the political significance, and the limitations, of the representation of the Black patriarchal figure in Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America, and how the (re)writing of Black domesticity is central to the novel's blueprint for Black citizenship. While Delany's novel imagines a political coalition founded upon a Black domestic order, the representation of the Black patriarchy delimits Black female agency as it also reemphasizes the gendered hierarchy within domesticity.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"160 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49313843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The Middle Passage is now the central metonym for life and death in US Black arts and cultural criticism. It was not always so. In the mid-twentieth century, after long being overlooked, the Middle Passage was brought back into public consciousness by academic slave trade studies. Writers turned to this scholarship, I argue, to confront overdetermined intraracial tensions that arose in the post-civil rights era, transforming the ship's hold into an image of solidarity. To trace this transformation, I analyze poems by Robert Hayden, Primus St. John, and Nathaniel Mackey. Hayden's "Middle Passage," the canonical literary imagining of the event, in fact reveals deep divergences from later Middle Passage poems, stemming from the altered social situation of their composition.
{"title":"Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined","authors":"Yeshua G. B. Tolle","doi":"10.7560/tsll65201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65201","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The Middle Passage is now the central metonym for life and death in US Black arts and cultural criticism. It was not always so. In the mid-twentieth century, after long being overlooked, the Middle Passage was brought back into public consciousness by academic slave trade studies. Writers turned to this scholarship, I argue, to confront overdetermined intraracial tensions that arose in the post-civil rights era, transforming the ship's hold into an image of solidarity. To trace this transformation, I analyze poems by Robert Hayden, Primus St. John, and Nathaniel Mackey. Hayden's \"Middle Passage,\" the canonical literary imagining of the event, in fact reveals deep divergences from later Middle Passage poems, stemming from the altered social situation of their composition.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"115 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43298298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Using James Clifford's theorization of roots and routes and Rinaldo Walcott's conception of future-oriented Black expressivity, I show how Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899) discursively creates a space that is both real and imagined wherein Black life and conceptions of freedom and citizenship in the South are re-visioned. I show that this re-visioning renders Texas as what Edward Soja would term a "Thirdspace," distinct from the North and the South, where Black survival and flourishing are imaginable.
{"title":"The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio","authors":"C. Hill","doi":"10.7560/tsll65205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65205","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Using James Clifford's theorization of roots and routes and Rinaldo Walcott's conception of future-oriented Black expressivity, I show how Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899) discursively creates a space that is both real and imagined wherein Black life and conceptions of freedom and citizenship in the South are re-visioned. I show that this re-visioning renders Texas as what Edward Soja would term a \"Thirdspace,\" distinct from the North and the South, where Black survival and flourishing are imaginable.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"209 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47274628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roland Corthell, N. Clausson, Reto Winckler, Shawn Smith
ABSTRACT:Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint has been studied chiefly for its alignment with Catholic or Protestant homiletics and devotional practices rather than its literary qualities. But Southwell's aims were poetical as well as pastoral. His baroque portrayal of Saint Peter's anguish over betraying Christ ironically incorporates both the ideology of Catholic recusancy, which Southwell supported as a Jesuit missionary, and the devotional discourse of the tears of repentance shared by Catholics and Protestants.
{"title":"Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint","authors":"Roland Corthell, N. Clausson, Reto Winckler, Shawn Smith","doi":"10.7560/tsll65103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65103","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint has been studied chiefly for its alignment with Catholic or Protestant homiletics and devotional practices rather than its literary qualities. But Southwell's aims were poetical as well as pastoral. His baroque portrayal of Saint Peter's anguish over betraying Christ ironically incorporates both the ideology of Catholic recusancy, which Southwell supported as a Jesuit missionary, and the devotional discourse of the tears of repentance shared by Catholics and Protestants.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"1 - 113 - 29 - 30 - 57 - 58 - 87 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43464208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article offers an alternative to the dominant reading of Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss" as a story about Bertha Young's repressed homosexuality, arguing that it can also be read as a story about her unfulfilled desire for communion with Pearl Fulton unmediated by language. In this reading, which pays close attention to the story's language, the pear tree that has been central to the story's interpretation for decades becomes a nonverbal icon as well as a symbol of Bertha's sexuality.
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