{"title":"Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go","authors":"Amy Christmas","doi":"10.7560/tsll65405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139016470","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}
{"title":"Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun","authors":"Yiqun Xiao","doi":"10.7560/tsll65403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139016963","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 Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Dracula updated the novel’s protomodernist fears of technology, subsuming and enthralling its subjects through the new medium of radio. Retaining the novel’s moments of travel, Orson Welles would bleed diegetic layers of the epistolary form together and rework the narrative’s relationships to reflect the asymmetric dynamics of broadcaster and listener. I argue that Welles evokes debates around radio to highlight the medium’s potential to both empower and subjugate.
{"title":"Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”","authors":"Nicholas A. Sabo","doi":"10.7560/tsll65301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65301","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Dracula updated the novel’s protomodernist fears of technology, subsuming and enthralling its subjects through the new medium of radio. Retaining the novel’s moments of travel, Orson Welles would bleed diegetic layers of the epistolary form together and rework the narrative’s relationships to reflect the asymmetric dynamics of broadcaster and listener. I argue that Welles evokes debates around radio to highlight the medium’s potential to both empower and subjugate.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47579264","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 essay argues that Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” utilizes a case history of an early twentieth-century genderqueer Jewish woman with anorexia to indict the clinical establishment and its complicity in protecting certain bodies while disavowing others. An analysis of the clinic’s reliance on gender and racial givens and the complex ways the title speaker struggles to both submit to and defy such givens suggests her death represents the disavowal of a racialized, gender-variant body.
{"title":"“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”","authors":"Catherine Irwin","doi":"10.7560/tsll65304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay argues that Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” utilizes a case history of an early twentieth-century genderqueer Jewish woman with anorexia to indict the clinical establishment and its complicity in protecting certain bodies while disavowing others. An analysis of the clinic’s reliance on gender and racial givens and the complex ways the title speaker struggles to both submit to and defy such givens suggests her death represents the disavowal of a racialized, gender-variant body.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48058805","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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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":null,"pages":null},"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: 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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