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Literature, British Isles
Christina Wald (Konstanz)
Summary: This article proposes that The Tempest offers metadramaturgic commentary on the playwright's task of (dis)entanglement through its dense knot imagery and actions on stage. It examines how the knot as an image-cluster ties together various early modern concerns and not just formalist elements.
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Geoffrey Russom
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
(2022)
Book
Cultural Studies
R Chatterjee
FEMININE SINGULARITY: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Jonathan P. A. Sell
Summary: This article discusses a crux in Henry V and compares different solutions to it. The author argues that Lewis Theobald's conjecture is not only misguided, but also has influenced the interpretation of other plays in the Henry IV series. The author suggests adopting William Smith's conjecture with slight modification as a more accurate understanding of the play and its characters.
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Literature, British Isles
Debapriya Sarkar
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
George Sadaka, Vicky Panossian
Summary: This essay discusses the internalized patriarchy of women writers in Victorian Britain through the analysis of Charlotte Bronte's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette. The importance of the protagonists' reliance on books that reflect the forlornness of Victorian women is explored in the first segment. The second segment examines how the characters acknowledge and become representatives of the androcentric privilege. Psychoanalytic concepts are used to appreciate the detour of desire in the narratives.
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Literature, British Isles
Namratha Rao
Summary: This essay discusses allegory and thinking in The Faerie Queene. The author challenges the traditional interpretation that sees allegory as a violent form of classification, instead proposing that allegory is a narrative figuration characterized by the mutual conditioning and reciprocal interplay of its poles. The author offers new readings of three well-known gardens in the poem, showing how they express the entanglement and movement between concept and experience. These readings critique the unyielding abstractions of the martial visitors and invite a different kind of thinking, which offers hope for a possible solidarity between constitutive contradictions.
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2023)
Book Review
Literature, British Isles
Fernando Martinez Periset
Article
Literature, British Isles
Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Leslie S. Simon
Summary: This article surveys the Dickens scholarship published in 2020 and identifies key trends in areas such as adaptations and afterlives, form, gender and sexuality, and politics and media. The article also highlights the potential growth of research in science and health, as well as race and intercultural exchanges in the coming years.
DICKENS STUDIES ANNUAL
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Urvashi Chakravarty
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Sophie Emma Battell
Summary: This article examines the role of secrecy in "Pericles" and demonstrates how secrets can have a poisonous influence on relationships, but also possess beneficial curative properties. Secrets in the play reveal and conceal simultaneously, binding people together while separating them, disrupting desires for control and order.
Book Review
Literature, British Isles
Darren Freebury-Jones
SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY
(2022)
Article
Literature, British Isles
G. R. A. E. M. E. TYTLER
Summary: Literary criticism has often portrayed Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights as supreme fictional lovers, but a careful reading of the novel questions this viewpoint. While Heathcliff's love for Catherine remains consistent from childhood to death, it is not clear if Catherine's love for him is equally passionate. There are indications that her love for Heathcliff may only remain at the level of childhood affection. Despite appearing to side with Heathcliff over her husband on occasions, Catherine still relies on Edgar for her security and well-being.
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Literature, British Isles
Jennifer Goodman Wollock
Summary: This article provides an account of the creative project option in English 330 at Texas A&M University, discussing its use and the philosophical and educational principles behind it.
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Literature, British Isles
V. M. Braganza
Summary: This essay reinterprets Lady Mary Wroth's cryptic monogram and its relationship with her works. The discovery of the first printed book from her personal library is used as evidence to revise past readings of the monogram. The essay also identifies Wroth's bookbinder and suggests a possible origin for the Cyropaedia.
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Hannah Louise Bower
Summary: This article explores the representation of political spectacle in Chaucer's Squire's Tale, and highlights the relationship between spectacle as an enacted event and a commemorative poetic narrative. It argues that both texts reflect on the risks and opportunities of the translation process, and how it affects the preservation and generation of wonder, enigma, and authority.
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Literature, British Isles
Mizuki Tsutsui
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Literature, British Isles
Liza Blake
Summary: This essay argues that Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson were not atomists and did not believe in atomic matter making up the universe. However, both poets engage with atomism in their poetry, not due to philosophical beliefs, but because it helps them explore questions of knowledge, including in the realm of theology. Their poetic engagements with atomic philosophy allow them to go beyond empiricism in their epistemologies.
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2023)
Article
Literature, British Isles
Sarah Harlan-Haughey
Summary: In the Legend of Hypsipyle and Medea, Jason is depicted as a predator driven by compulsive sexual needs, causing destruction to those around him. Chaucer's imagery sequence explores the continua of desire and formlessness, shedding light on sexually predatory men, the value of love, and the underlying emptiness that fuels greed. This interpretation of the legend emphasizes recurring motifs such as dragons, foxes, gold, and emptiness, and analyzes their significance to Chaucer's philosophy, aesthetic and moral plan for the Legend of Good Women, and his ongoing fascination with the transformative nature of predatory masculine sexual behavior and compulsive infidelity. The legend presents a pessimistic and cautionary vision of a recurring human behavior, a biological impulse that becomes unstoppable when disguised by gentility, as seen in the first seducer, Jason.
