ABSTRACT:This article argues that a satirically distorted quotation from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, "If we pick, do we not bleed?," in the Seinfeld episode "The Pick" reveals a subtext of Jewish anxiety in the sitcom. This anxiety about the limits of mainstream acceptance and the persistence of anti- Semitism in late twentieth- century America revolves around maintaining civility, a notion already evident in The Merchant's portrayal of Jewish and Christian acts, attitudes, and values.
{"title":"\"Observance of Civility\": Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice","authors":"Reto Winckler","doi":"10.7560/tsll65101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65101","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article argues that a satirically distorted quotation from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, \"If we pick, do we not bleed?,\" in the Seinfeld episode \"The Pick\" reveals a subtext of Jewish anxiety in the sitcom. This anxiety about the limits of mainstream acceptance and the persistence of anti- Semitism in late twentieth- century America revolves around maintaining civility, a notion already evident in The Merchant's portrayal of Jewish and Christian acts, attitudes, and values.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46801069","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:Samuel Beckett's allusions to John Donne reflect Beckett's interest in paradox as a mode of thinking that is prone to confusion and failure. The paradoxical tensions between the sacred and the profane in Donne's love poems, in particular, provide Beckett with a framework for shaping his own characters' ambivalent attitudes toward erotic and romantic desire in a way that formulates a critique of the conventions of Petrarchan love poetry and of the theme of love in literature in general.
{"title":"Samuel Beckett's Allusions to John Donne","authors":"Shawn Smith","doi":"10.7560/tsll65102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65102","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Samuel Beckett's allusions to John Donne reflect Beckett's interest in paradox as a mode of thinking that is prone to confusion and failure. The paradoxical tensions between the sacred and the profane in Donne's love poems, in particular, provide Beckett with a framework for shaping his own characters' ambivalent attitudes toward erotic and romantic desire in a way that formulates a critique of the conventions of Petrarchan love poetry and of the theme of love in literature in general.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"65 1","pages":"30 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43606515","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:Building on recent studies by Imani Perry and Soyica Diggs Colbert, as well as new work by Julius Fleming, this article argues that the various editions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun are invested in a politics of untimeliness and unfinishedness that complicates common understandings of the play's meaning. By attending to the dialogue among the various versions of Raisin, readers are able to recognize the importance of untimeliness and unfinishedness to Raisin's "radical vision."
{"title":"The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun","authors":"Benjamin Schwartz","doi":"10.7560/tsll64403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Building on recent studies by Imani Perry and Soyica Diggs Colbert, as well as new work by Julius Fleming, this article argues that the various editions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun are invested in a politics of untimeliness and unfinishedness that complicates common understandings of the play's meaning. By attending to the dialogue among the various versions of Raisin, readers are able to recognize the importance of untimeliness and unfinishedness to Raisin's \"radical vision.\"","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"396 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46103655","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 domestic sphere was of great importance to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Indeed, their home in Paris was a social epicenter of expatriate modernism. This article reads Stein's experimental literature of 1908 to 1920 to understand the identificatory and relational processes that the affordances of the domestic space make possible. It situates the queer in Stein as a domestic phenomenon, arguing that queer bonding and identity formation happen, for her, most meaningfully in the home.
{"title":"Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior","authors":"M. Abraham","doi":"10.7560/tsll64401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The domestic sphere was of great importance to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Indeed, their home in Paris was a social epicenter of expatriate modernism. This article reads Stein's experimental literature of 1908 to 1920 to understand the identificatory and relational processes that the affordances of the domestic space make possible. It situates the queer in Stein as a domestic phenomenon, arguing that queer bonding and identity formation happen, for her, most meaningfully in the home.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"339 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47931455","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:Critics almost universally considered Stevie in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent as an unwitting victim of the Greenwich explosion. But we argue that because Conrad provides so little access to Stevie's mind there is much ambiguity concerning his role that has previously gone unremarked. Stevie may be an unwitting victim, but there are also a number of suggestions that he knows what he is doing when he places the bomb. Stevie, unlike the nominal revolutionaries in the novel, is the one character who actually performs a revolutionary act. In this contrast between possible unwitting victim / possible witting actor and witting nonactor, Conrad considers the question of who is a revolutionary.
{"title":"Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent","authors":"Show-Ling Jang, John G. Peters","doi":"10.7560/tsll64405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64405","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Critics almost universally considered Stevie in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent as an unwitting victim of the Greenwich explosion. But we argue that because Conrad provides so little access to Stevie's mind there is much ambiguity concerning his role that has previously gone unremarked. Stevie may be an unwitting victim, but there are also a number of suggestions that he knows what he is doing when he places the bomb. Stevie, unlike the nominal revolutionaries in the novel, is the one character who actually performs a revolutionary act. In this contrast between possible unwitting victim / possible witting actor and witting nonactor, Conrad considers the question of who is a revolutionary.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"437 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861549","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:Set from 1896 to 1905 in South Texas, Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short novel Noon Wine chronicles the arrival of a strange man named Olaf Helton whose labor transforms the Thompson family's failing farm into a thriving enterprise. Pointed mentions of vanished Black workers replaced by this conspicuously "foreign" white man provide an uncanny reading of the role of racialized labor, illuminating methods through which the United States has built its regions and nation upon related forms of exploitation.
摘要：凯瑟琳·安妮·波特（Katherine Anne Porter）1939年的短篇小说《正午的葡萄酒》（Noon Wine）以1896年至1905年的德克萨斯州南部为背景，记录了一个名叫奥拉夫·赫尔顿（Olaf Helton）的陌生男子的到来，他的劳动将汤普森家族失败的农场变成了一个繁荣的企业。有针对性地提到消失的黑人工人被这个明显的“外国”白人取代，这对种族化劳动力的作用提供了一种离奇的解读，揭示了美国在相关剥削形式的基础上建立地区和国家的方法。
{"title":"The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter's Noon Wine","authors":"B. Moorhead","doi":"10.7560/tsll64402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Set from 1896 to 1905 in South Texas, Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short novel Noon Wine chronicles the arrival of a strange man named Olaf Helton whose labor transforms the Thompson family's failing farm into a thriving enterprise. Pointed mentions of vanished Black workers replaced by this conspicuously \"foreign\" white man provide an uncanny reading of the role of racialized labor, illuminating methods through which the United States has built its regions and nation upon related forms of exploitation.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"367 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41470201","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:Most critics who have analyzed Seamus Deane's novel Reading in the Dark have examined it in the context of his influential scholarly publications. But this approach does not account adequately for the book's form, which reflects Deane's own uncertainty regarding his autobiographical subject. I argue that critics to date have overemphasized James Joyce's influence on Deane's text and underestimated that of Henry James, especially his famously ambiguous novella The Turn of the Screw.
{"title":"The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark","authors":"M. Richtarik","doi":"10.7560/tsll64404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64404","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Most critics who have analyzed Seamus Deane's novel Reading in the Dark have examined it in the context of his influential scholarly publications. But this approach does not account adequately for the book's form, which reflects Deane's own uncertainty regarding his autobiographical subject. I argue that critics to date have overemphasized James Joyce's influence on Deane's text and underestimated that of Henry James, especially his famously ambiguous novella The Turn of the Screw.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"416 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48047552","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 examines animal presence in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude,” demonstrating how the text’s aesthetics of animacy—the way different beings in the story undergo creaturely transformations and brim with an uncontainable vitality—cannot be read in isolation from the settler colonial environment of rural New Zealand. In establishing this connection, the essay argues that the dreamlike world of “Prelude” indicates the makings of an emergent settler territory.
{"title":"Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”","authors":"Anushka Sen","doi":"10.7560/tsll64301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64301","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay examines animal presence in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude,” demonstrating how the text’s aesthetics of animacy—the way different beings in the story undergo creaturely transformations and brim with an uncontainable vitality—cannot be read in isolation from the settler colonial environment of rural New Zealand. In establishing this connection, the essay argues that the dreamlike world of “Prelude” indicates the makings of an emergent settler territory.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"207 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49513478","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 analyzes Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name in light of theoretical debates on Paul the Apostle between Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben. Badiou argues that with his debate on the Jewish laws Paul tackled the exclusive Jewish identity by creating a radical universality. However, like Agamben, Jacobson emphasizes that Paul’s theology does not resolve the irreducible differences that reside in Jewish identity, along with the Jews’ own right to exist in their own distinctive ways.
{"title":"Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle","authors":"Jaecheol Kim","doi":"10.7560/tsll64304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay analyzes Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name in light of theoretical debates on Paul the Apostle between Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben. Badiou argues that with his debate on the Jewish laws Paul tackled the exclusive Jewish identity by creating a radical universality. However, like Agamben, Jacobson emphasizes that Paul’s theology does not resolve the irreducible differences that reside in Jewish identity, along with the Jews’ own right to exist in their own distinctive ways.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"284 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43639711","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:In this essay, I claim that The Queen’s Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. Following the rise of an orphan (Beth Harmon) in the world of 1960s international chess, the novel suggests, I argue, allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. I further contend that in learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world.
{"title":"“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit","authors":"P. H. Schmidt","doi":"10.7560/tsll64305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this essay, I claim that The Queen’s Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. Following the rise of an orphan (Beth Harmon) in the world of 1960s international chess, the novel suggests, I argue, allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. I further contend that in learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"309 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47241860","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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