abstract:I argue that Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth shares with the work of cultural critics Saidiya Hartman and Christina Sharpe an awareness of how the terms of slavery continue to shape our contemporary political reality and our individual identities. Ware challenges readers to recognize signs of slavery’s afterlife in a comics narrative about four generations of white men. This essay charts the complex pathways by which slavery and its violence continue to circulate in the novel’s contemporary landscape, indelibly marking both its white and its Black characters.
{"title":"Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth","authors":"T. Feroli","doi":"10.7560/tsll64104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64104","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:I argue that Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth shares with the work of cultural critics Saidiya Hartman and Christina Sharpe an awareness of how the terms of slavery continue to shape our contemporary political reality and our individual identities. Ware challenges readers to recognize signs of slavery’s afterlife in a comics narrative about four generations of white men. This essay charts the complex pathways by which slavery and its violence continue to circulate in the novel’s contemporary landscape, indelibly marking both its white and its Black characters.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43138755","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:Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London theatrical world of the 1810s was due to a collaborative effort. This study examines the collaborators’ roles in this success: writers Scott and Byron, who saw the potential in Bertram; actor Kean, who realized the role of Bertram; and publisher Murray, who saw the potential for the play’s success in print. All of them together made the success of Bertram possible.
{"title":"The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray","authors":"Jaekwon Park","doi":"10.7560/tsll64101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64101","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London theatrical world of the 1810s was due to a collaborative effort. This study examines the collaborators’ roles in this success: writers Scott and Byron, who saw the potential in Bertram; actor Kean, who realized the role of Bertram; and publisher Murray, who saw the potential for the play’s success in print. All of them together made the success of Bertram possible.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48353840","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 introduce and conceptualize the term “reading closet” to describe one’s voluntarily exiling oneself from the corporeal world and hiding in a mental space that reading affords. The reading closet connotes a safe, psychological space in which one can silently explore both the contents of texts and those of one’s own desires that are triggered by one’s reading acts. This essay is an attempt to articulate, through its original term, the ways in which we look for an opportunity to be alone with any book available at the moment—for the silent moment of reading that no one could interrupt or penetrate.
{"title":"The Reading Closet","authors":"Sunggyung Jo","doi":"10.7560/tsll64103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64103","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this essay, I introduce and conceptualize the term “reading closet” to describe one’s voluntarily exiling oneself from the corporeal world and hiding in a mental space that reading affords. The reading closet connotes a safe, psychological space in which one can silently explore both the contents of texts and those of one’s own desires that are triggered by one’s reading acts. This essay is an attempt to articulate, through its original term, the ways in which we look for an opportunity to be alone with any book available at the moment—for the silent moment of reading that no one could interrupt or penetrate.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45353089","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:Richard Wilbur’s “All That Is” foregrounds the poet’s thematic interest in ontology: the poem is a meditation on what is and human access to it. Borrowing a phrase from Hans-Georg Gadamer, I characterize the poem’s ontology as a “hermeneutic ontology.” For Gadamer and Wilbur both, human finitude and temporality make it inevitable that our grasp of being can only be hermeneutic—can only be, therefore, both linguistic and dynamic. Wilbur figures all this in the poem’s representation of crossword puzzles.
摘要：理查德·威尔伯（Richard Wilbur）的《一切皆是》（All That Is）突出了诗人对本体论的主题兴趣：这首诗是对什么是存在以及人类对它的访问的思考。借用汉斯·格奥尔格·伽达默尔（Hans-Georg Gadamer）的一句话，我将这首诗的本体论描述为“解释学本体论”。对于伽达默尔和威尔伯来说，人类的有限性和时间性使得我们对存在的把握不可避免地只能是解释学的——因此，只能是语言的和动态的。威尔伯在这首诗中对填字游戏的描绘中描绘了这一切。
{"title":"A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology","authors":"William Tate","doi":"10.7560/tsll64105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64105","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Richard Wilbur’s “All That Is” foregrounds the poet’s thematic interest in ontology: the poem is a meditation on what is and human access to it. Borrowing a phrase from Hans-Georg Gadamer, I characterize the poem’s ontology as a “hermeneutic ontology.” For Gadamer and Wilbur both, human finitude and temporality make it inevitable that our grasp of being can only be hermeneutic—can only be, therefore, both linguistic and dynamic. Wilbur figures all this in the poem’s representation of crossword puzzles.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44791751","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:Ralph Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party in Invisible Man has often been criticized as unfair or formulaic. This article, however, argues that Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party can be read productively when considered in light of the novel's use of caricature, violence, and the scapegoat motif. By observing the Invisible Man's role as both victim and perpetrator of violence, the reader becomes aware of the dangerous cycle of scapegoating in the novel.
{"title":"The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man","authors":"Luke Sayers","doi":"10.7560/tsll63401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Ralph Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party in Invisible Man has often been criticized as unfair or formulaic. This article, however, argues that Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party can be read productively when considered in light of the novel's use of caricature, violence, and the scapegoat motif. By observing the Invisible Man's role as both victim and perpetrator of violence, the reader becomes aware of the dangerous cycle of scapegoating in the novel.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43068743","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 proposes "literal reading," a theoretical concept from Zhang Longxi, with the intent of resisting the reductionist reading of political implications of contemporary Chinese literature in Anglophone discourse. It uses Chinese writer Yan Lianke's novel The Four Books as a case study, investigating how Yan's portrayal of the main character, the Child, has been misread or overinterpreted in English-language scholarship as a representation of the nation's repressive past while his idiosyncratic writing style and use of literary form as content have been glossed over.
{"title":"Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke's \"Child\"","authors":"Haiyan Xie","doi":"10.7560/tsll63405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63405","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article proposes \"literal reading,\" a theoretical concept from Zhang Longxi, with the intent of resisting the reductionist reading of political implications of contemporary Chinese literature in Anglophone discourse. It uses Chinese writer Yan Lianke's novel The Four Books as a case study, investigating how Yan's portrayal of the main character, the Child, has been misread or overinterpreted in English-language scholarship as a representation of the nation's repressive past while his idiosyncratic writing style and use of literary form as content have been glossed over.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41763139","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:James M. Cain's depiction of changing gender roles in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), and Mildred Pierce (1941), classics of literary noir, explores the fatality of sentimentalized romance in relation to the Great Depression's erosion of the American Dream. Serenade (1937) is a puzzling deviation from this theme. Despite criticism of the "iron-hard pattern of necessity" that underlies his work, Cain's early fiction illuminates the nation's cultural legacy.
{"title":"Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain's Depression-Era Novels","authors":"R. Snyder","doi":"10.7560/tsll63402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:James M. Cain's depiction of changing gender roles in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), and Mildred Pierce (1941), classics of literary noir, explores the fatality of sentimentalized romance in relation to the Great Depression's erosion of the American Dream. Serenade (1937) is a puzzling deviation from this theme. Despite criticism of the \"iron-hard pattern of necessity\" that underlies his work, Cain's early fiction illuminates the nation's cultural legacy.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42740966","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 Claude McKay's Banjo in terms of its dialectical critique of civilization. With its radical questioning of the meaning of modernity, McKay's novel of Black life in Marseille aligns with the transnational cultural phenomenon of modernism. Reading Banjo alongside Walter Benjamin's seminal concepts such as the dialectical image reveals how the novel's oft-criticized "crude realism" and plotless structure are its integral elements.
{"title":"The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay's Banjo","authors":"Tomohiro Hori","doi":"10.7560/tsll63404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63404","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay examines Claude McKay's Banjo in terms of its dialectical critique of civilization. With its radical questioning of the meaning of modernity, McKay's novel of Black life in Marseille aligns with the transnational cultural phenomenon of modernism. Reading Banjo alongside Walter Benjamin's seminal concepts such as the dialectical image reveals how the novel's oft-criticized \"crude realism\" and plotless structure are its integral elements.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42961434","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 Heart of Darkness and "An Outpost of Progress," Joseph Conrad's characters initially associate African space with silence and absence and European space with sound and fullness. As these tales progress, however, the barriers between empty African space and full European space break down, as Conrad reveals the activity and sound of the West to be merely a surface that obscures its underlying emptiness, an emptiness that reflects a universe absent of order or meaning.
{"title":"Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad's African Fiction","authors":"John G. Peters","doi":"10.7560/tsll63403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Heart of Darkness and \"An Outpost of Progress,\" Joseph Conrad's characters initially associate African space with silence and absence and European space with sound and fullness. As these tales progress, however, the barriers between empty African space and full European space break down, as Conrad reveals the activity and sound of the West to be merely a surface that obscures its underlying emptiness, an emptiness that reflects a universe absent of order or meaning.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47187083","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}
This paper carefully sorts out the current situation of intercultural communication teaching resources, analyzes the existing problems, and aims to put forward the corresponding measures for the construction of resource database in combination with the training objectives of intercultural communication curriculum in Minzu universities.
{"title":"Construction of Teaching Resource Database of Intercultural Communication in Minzu Universities","authors":"Li Xu","doi":"10.3968/12322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12322","url":null,"abstract":"This paper carefully sorts out the current situation of intercultural communication teaching resources, analyzes the existing problems, and aims to put forward the corresponding measures for the construction of resource database in combination with the training objectives of intercultural communication curriculum in Minzu universities.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74500349","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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