DOCSLIB.ORG

Introduction 1. This Term Appears to Have Originated in a Poem by Coventry Patmore from 1854, Titled the Angel in the House

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Introduction 1. This Term Appears to Have Originated in a Poem by Coventry Patmore from 1854, Titled the Angel in the House Notes Introduction 1. This term appears to have originated in a poem by Coventry Patmore from 1854, titled The Angel in the House, which cast women as pious, pure, submissive, and devoted to domesticity above all else. The repercussions of this idea are discussed in more detail on page 13 of this chapter. 2. I use the term “she-warriors” throughout this text to refer to vigilante heroines created by women authors. 3. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Geena Davis as Thelma, and Susan Sarandon as Louise. 4. Directed by David Slade and starring Ellen Page. 5. Directed by Neil Jordan and starring Jodie Foster. Chapter One: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger: The Female Avenger 1. In the original French, “L’Incontournable volume.” 2. This reading is borne out by the ending of Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, wherein Janie Crawford Woods is declared innocent of the shooting death of her husband, who attacks and attempts to murder her after he is stricken with Rabies. 3. Nevertheless, the members of the poor black Southern community where Sykes and Delia live understand the importance of Delia’s actions and do not bother to label them as crimes. Sykes, in fact, alienates himself from the community as a result of his laziness and fecklessness, while Delia remains within the good graces of her neighbors. 4. Helene Deutsch, author of The Psychology of Woman— A Psychoanalytical Interpretation (1944), attests, “While fully rec- ognising that woman’s position is subjected to external influence, I venture to say that the fundamental identities ‘feminine-passive’ and ‘masculine- active’ assert themselves in all known cultures and races, in various forms and various quantitative proportions” (qtd. in Friedan, Feminine Mystique, Ch 5). Although I disagree with this statement, I include it as evidence that this belief once held wide- spread currency. 172 NOTES 5. Rawlings is perhaps best known today for her later work, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Yearling (1938) and the autobiographical Cross Creek (1942). 6. Such characters appear in other of Grau’s novels, for example, Roadwalkers (1994), her most recent novel, narrates the story of two homeless black children, who during the Great Depression travel like gypsies across the southern United States in search of food and shelter. 7. This paradox is a microcosm of the dilemma of vigilantism itself: when facing conflict, should a person rely on their personal morality of right and wrong, or should they abide by public law, which can be unjust and slow to change? Chapter Two: Women Warriors and Women with Weapons 1. The middle- class ideology for femininity “developed in post-industrial England and America, [and] prescribed a woman who would be a Perfect Lady, an Angel in the House, contentedly submissive to men, but strong in her inner purity and religiosity, queen in her own realm in the Home” (Showalter 14). 2. Ann Jones writes, “properly understood . a motive is not the cause of [a] homicide, but the cause for the sake of which the homicide is committed.” In this chapter, when I speak of the motive for women to engage in armed combat, I am referring to the cause for the sake of which combat is undertaken. Ann Jones, Women Who Kill (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1980) 99. 3. Flanagan notes that transvestism is “viewed as an adult behavioral fetish, a means of procuring sexual gratification,” while transsexu- alism is a psychological condition that involves individuals who “identify with the opposite sex and may seek to live as a member of that sex.” Victoria Flanagan, Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children’s Literature and Film (New York: Rutledge, Taylor & Francis, 2008) 3. 4. One example of this is Spenser’s Britomart from the canonical poem The Faerie Queene (1590). Britomart, disguised as a man, dressed in armor from head to toe, and armed with a phallic sword, fights in the name of Chastity. Spencer got the idea for this character from the fourteenth- century Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto, which features the female Christian warrior Bradamante. Spenser used the character of Britomart as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth, to justify the rule of an unmarried woman. The legendary Joan of Arc was also purported to be a virgin warrior. In 1429, at the age of 16, Joan donned male clothing and NOTES 173 a sword and mounted a horse to lead the Armagnac army to victory against the English army in Orleans. Joan was a mystic—she identi- fied two female saints and an archangel as the source of the voice compelling her to go to war. Anne Llewellyn Barstow writes, “Joan’s lesson for women is . to take themselves seriously . but the further message . is that women must not assume that their truth is accept- able in the world of male values.” Anne Llewellyn Barstow, Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986) xvi. 5. Rita Mae Brown was born on November 28, 1944, in Hanover, Pennsylvania, to an unwed mother. She was adopted by Ralph and Julia Brown, a working- class family who lived in Hanover until she was eleven years old, when the family moved to Florida. Brown attended the University of Florida on a full scholarship but was expelled from the school in 1964 for her political activity in the civil rights movement and for her outspoken lesbianism. She went on to receive a PhD in English and Political Science from the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington D.C. and has written more than fifteen novels to date. Harold Woodell, “Rita Mae Brown,” The History of Southern Women’s Literature, ed. Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002). 6. The press was Daughters Inc., founded by June Arnold (see Chapter Four), Bertha Harris, and Charlotte Bunch. 7. Velazquez’s incredible career continued after her husband’s untimely death, when she became a Confederate spy and then published her shocking memoir. DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War (New York: Vintage, 2002) 178. 8. Quentin Compson, Buck McCaslin, and Thomas Sutpen, for example. 9. The verbena flower that Drusilla wears in her hair is representative of oppositions. Maryanne M. Gobble attests that it has historically been associated with “war and peace, love and death, and politics and domesticity,” and that according to legend, the early Romans declared war by “launching a spear decorated with verbena into the enemy’s territory” Maryanne M. Gobble, “The Significance of Verbena in William Faulkner’s ‘an Odor of Verbena’ ” Mississippi Quarterly 53.4 (2000). 572. 10. The portrait of Colonel Sartoris in The Unvanquished is closely mod- eled upon that of Colonel William Clark Falkner. (Rubin, Louis D. “Discovery of a Man’s Vocation.” Faulkner: Fifty Years after the Marble Faun. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1976). 174 NOTES Chapter Three : The Woman Who Snaps, The Woman Who Kills 1. The fact that Beloved is unable to forgive Sethe for what she has done suggests, in a double entendre, that restitution can never adequately make up for the harms done to those forced to endure slavery. 2. Yet such an act would still be problematic, for it would, in the eyes of the slave owner and his men, affirm their opinion of blacks as “savage.” 3. I acknowledge that this might be argued otherwise in certain extreme cases, but I believe it is the exception rather than the rule. 4. Mikolchak argues that such desires “do not have a name,” because they are articulated within the patriarchal language structure that has no need to grant them expression. 5. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” are examples of texts that invoke the metaphor of the caged bird to represent the restricted lives of women. This metaphor was especially common in the nineteenth century. 6. Perhaps arguably, because the reader is not witness to the death of Edna Pontellier. Rather, she swims out to sea until her arms and legs grow tired, and we are left to intuit the ending. 7. Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was born in Davenport, Iowa, and graduated from Drake University. She is the author of more than 50 short stories, nine novels, eleven plays, and a biography; she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Chapter Four: The Female Bandit/Outlaw 1. Lesbian feminist June Arnold was born in South Carolina but spent most of her life in Texas. She attended Vassar College and Rice University. After getting married and having four children, Arnold moved to New York City to become a writer. There she wrote and published her first novel, Applesauce (1966). Subsequently, Arnold moved to Vermont, where, with novelist Bertha Harris and political theorist Charlotte Bunch, she founded Daughters Inc. Press in 1973. In its five brief years of existence, Daughters Inc. published thirty titles, most notably Rita Mae Brown’s groundbreaking Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Harris’s innovative Lover (1976). The press also published Arnold’s next two novels, The Cook and the Carpenter, a Novel by the Carpenter (1973) and Baby Houston (1987) (published posthumously). Arnold died at age fifty-five in Houston in 1982. Carla Williams, “Arnold, June,” glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, NOTES 175 Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture (December 14, 2002), March 10, 2009 <www.glbtq.com/literature/arnold_j.html>. 2. Merriam- Webster’s Dictionary notes that the etymology of the word “fertile” is from the Latin “fertilis” meaning fruitful, which is akin to “ferre” meaning “to bear.” The negative connotations of being infertile are evident in this meaning—to be infertile is to be unpro- ductive or unable to produce.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • An Annotated Bibliography of William Faulkner, 1967-1970
    Studies in English Volume 12 Article 3 1971 An Annotated Bibliography of William Faulkner, 1967-1970 James Barlow Lloyd University of Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ms_studies_eng Part of the American Literature Commons Recommended Citation Lloyd, James Barlow (1971) "An Annotated Bibliography of William Faulkner, 1967-1970," Studies in English: Vol. 12 , Article 3. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ms_studies_eng/vol12/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studies in English by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lloyd: Faulkner Bibliography An Annotated Bibliography of William Faulkner, 1967—1970 by James Barlow Lloyd This annotated bibliography of books and articles published about William Faulkner and his works between January, 1967, and the summer of 1970 supplements such existing secondary bibliog­ raphies as Maurice Beebe’s checklists in the Autumn 1956 and Spring 1967 issues of Modern Fiction Studies; Linton R. Massey’s William Faulkner: “Man Working” 1919-1962: A Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collection of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville: Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia, 1968); and O. B. Emerson’s unpublished doctoral dissertation, “William Faulkner’s Literary Reputation in America” (Vanderbilt University, 1962). The present bibliography begins where Beebe’s latest checklist leaves off, but no precise termination date can be established since publica­ tion dates for periodicals vary widely, and it has seemed more useful to cover all possible material than to set an arbitrary cutoff date.
    [Show full text]
  • “The National Voice” Across the Bayard and Ringo Stories
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GRADUATE COLLEGE POPULAR FAULKNER: THE DEVELOPMENT OF “THE NATIONAL VOICE” ACROSS THE BAYARD AND RINGO STORIES A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By WILLIAM WILDE JANUARY VI Norman, Oklahoma 2018 POPULAR FAULKNER: THE DEVELOPMENT OF “THE NATIONAL VOICE” ACROSS THE BAYARD AND RINGO STORIES A THESIS APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH BY ______________________________ Dr. James Zeigler, Chair ______________________________ Dr. Daniela Garofalo ______________________________ Dr. William Henry McDonald © Copyright by WILLIAM WILDE JANUARY VI 2018 All Rights Reserved. To Claire, as a monument to our adventure in Oklahoma. Acknowledgements This project is in many ways the culmination of everything I have done before, and thus it is necessary to acknowledge everyone I have had the pleasure to have known the past three years in the University of Oklahoma English Department: faculty, staff, and my fellow graduate students. In particular, I would like to thank both Dr. McDonald and Dr. Garofalo for not only serving on my committee, but for teaching seminars so influential that they changed the way that I viewed the world and, subsequently, my future plans. In a similar vein, I would like to thank Dr. John Burke and Dr. William Ulmer at the University of Alabama, as I would have never even been here without their part in shaping my formless undergraduate curiosity into the more disciplined inquisitiveness of a scholar. Most of all, I am indebted to my Chair, Dr. James Zeigler, who has over the past three years listened carefully to every road not taken by this work, and always provided clear, helpful feedback as well as a sense of positivity that has made all the difference in its completion.
    [Show full text]
  • Addition to Summer Letter
    May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the Falkner/Faulkner Family Collection, 1770S-1980S
    Guide to the Falkner/Faulkner Family Collection, 1770s-1980s Archives & Special Collections - Cheng Library William Paterson University By: Trudi Van Dyke Ed. by Robert Wolk September, 2006 Descriptive Summary: Creator: Dr. Donald Philip Duclos Donated by: Dr. Stephen Hahn, Associate Provost & Professor of English Title: Guide to the Falkner/Faulkner Family Collection Dates: 1770s- 1980s Quantity: Research-Related/Scholarly Materials: 1 Box Microfilm, Slides, Books, Framed Items: 1 Box Abstract: Collection contains items on the Falkner/Faulkner families, and scholarly materials created by Prof. Donald Duclos related to his doctoral dissertation (1961) at the University of Michigan on Colonel William C. Falkner, an author, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier, who resided in Mississippi during the 1800s. Duclos’ dissertation, Son of Sorrow: The Life, Works and Influence of Colonel William C. Falkner, 1825-1889, was published by International Scholars Publications in 1998. The collection also contains items relating to various other members of the Falkner family, including the Colonel’s great-grandson, the Nobel Prize-winning author, William Faulkner. ________________________________________________ Biographical Sketches Falkner, William Clark, July 6, 1825-November 6, 1889 William Clark Falkner was born in Knox County, Tennessee on July 6, 1825, but lived most of his life in Mississippi, eventually becoming a long-term resident of the town of Ripley. Falkner was a prominent lawyer, politician, businessman and soldier, serving in both the Mexican War and the American Civil War, and ultimately rising to the rank of Colonel in the Confederate Army. He was also a prolific author, composing several poems, plays and novels, including The White Rose of Memphis, Rapid Ramblings in Europe and The Siege of Monterey.
    [Show full text]
  • The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Honors a Distinguished Work of Fiction by an American Author, Preferably Dealing with American Life
    Pulitzer Prize Winners Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction honors a distinguished work of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Chosen from a selection of 800 titles by five letter juries since 1918, the award has become one of the most prestigious awards in America for fiction. Holdings found in the library are featured in red. 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 2012: No prize (no majority vote reached) 2011: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010:Tinkers by Paul Harding 2009:Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008:The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007:The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006:March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Stephan Milhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
    [Show full text]
  • William Faulker's Use of Memory and Imagination
    “NOT GONE OR VANISHED EITHER:” WILLIAM FAULKNER’S USE OF MEMEORY AND IMAGINATION By Kevin Daniel Gleason A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of English The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tennessee May 2011 ii Copyright © 2011 By Kevin Daniel Gleason All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT This thesis examines the role that memory and imagination play in three of William Faulkner’s novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! and The Unvanquished. While most scholars perceive Faulkner’s characters as burdened, debilitated, and destroyed by the past, I argue that Faulkner presents a wide spectrum of engagement with the past which includes the potential for memory to serve as a tool of redemption and power. Henri Bergson’s notion of the fluidity of all time past, present, and future forms the center of Faulkner’s understanding of time, and in this paradigm, Faulkner’s characters are capable of creating and re-creating their pasts through memory and projecting their futures through imagination. In emphasizing Dilsey’s role as a rememberer in The Sound and the Fury, Shreve’s role as an imaginer in Absalom, Absalom!, and Bayard Sartoris’s role as defeater of his cultural and familial past in The Unvanquished, I demonstrate that while Faulkner does present memory and imagination as harmful forces, he also illustrates their potential for preservation and redemption. iv DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this thesis to my wife, Kathleen Gleason, who supported and encouraged me through every step of the process.
    [Show full text]
  • Brown Bag and a Book (2016) JANUARY Gypsy Music Street By
    Brown Bag and a Book (2016) JANUARY Gypsy Music Street by Roberta Dietzen Against the Country: A Novel by Ben Metcalf The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Humans of New York Stories by Brandon Stanton Way down: playing bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors & more: the autobiography of Jerry Scheff by Jerry Scheff The Travels of Marco Polo by Morris Rossabi Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea Lankford Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey Officially Dead by Quentin Reynolds The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by R. Kirk February Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell Atlas of the Roman World by Tim Cornell Modern Priscilla Cook Book by Priscilla Publishing In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison Waking Up White by Debby Irving How’s Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey by David Gregory The Stilwell Papers by Theodore H. White Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley’s Eccentric Manager by James L. Dickerson The Kite Runner: A Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini Presence by Amy Cuddy Little Humans by Brandon Stanton Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Stemple The Executioner’s Race by Andrew Bynon Being Still - Standing Stones in Wales by Marcia
    [Show full text]
  • Faulkner's War Birds / a Ghost Story: a Screenplay and Its Relationship with Faulkner's Fiction
    RSA Journal 12 61 GRAZIELLA FANTINI Faulkner's War Birds / A Ghost Story: a Screenplay and its Relationship with Faulkner's Fiction This brief essay is an excerpt from a project1 which analyzes the relations between Faulkner's film work and his fiction, where I have emphasized a number of connections that point out the great importance of Faulkner's "second" career. These connections challenge many critics who consider Faulkner's production in Hollywood simply a business. It is clear that Faulkner worked differently in writing fiction and in writing for the studios, and that he was aware that motion pictures were not his own medium,2 but he took his work seriously, nonetheless. The analysis of Faulkner's screenplay War Birds / A Ghost Story emphasizes his great ability in dealing with important themes also in his "secondary" Hollywood works — themes such as peace and war, death and life, love and hate, suffering, the burden of the past, tradition, the family, and others. The script is set partly in Jefferson; its protagonists are John and Bayard Sartoris, taken from Flags in the Dust and several of his World War I stories; the work thus must be seen as part of the Yoknapatawpha myth. It offers us an example of how Faulkner extended and clarified themes of his major fiction in his screcnwriting. War Birds / A Ghost Story was Faulkner's second full-length film script written for Howard Hawks during his first period in Hollywood, when he worked at the MGM. According to Bruce Kawin,3 the screenplay was written "between late November 1932 and early January 1933" (257).
    [Show full text]
  • PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS in LETTERS © by Larry James
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS IN LETTERS © by Larry James Gianakos Fiction 1917 no award *1918 Ernest Poole, His Family (Macmillan Co.; 320 pgs.; bound in blue cloth boards, gilt stamped on front cover and spine; full [embracing front panel, spine, and back panel] jacket illustration depicting New York City buildings by E. C.Caswell); published May 16, 1917; $1.50; three copies, two with the stunning dust jacket, now almost exotic in its rarity, with the front flap reading: “Just as THE HARBOR was the story of a constantly changing life out upon the fringe of the city, along its wharves, among its ships, so the story of Roger Gale’s family pictures the growth of a generation out of the embers of the old in the ceaselessly changing heart of New York. How Roger’s three daughters grew into the maturity of their several lives, each one so different, Mr. Poole tells with strong and compelling beauty, touching with deep, whole-hearted conviction some of the most vital problems of our modern way of living!the home, motherhood, children, the school; all of them seen through the realization, which Roger’s dying wife made clear to him, that whatever life may bring, ‘we will live on in our children’s lives.’ The old Gale house down-town is a little fragment of a past generation existing somehow beneath the towering apartments and office-buildings of the altered city. Roger will be remembered when other figures in modern literature have been forgotten, gazing out of his window at the lights of some near-by dwelling lifting high above his home, thinking
    [Show full text]
  • Faulkner's Treatment of Women a Thesis Submitted To
    FAULKNER'S TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN HIS MAJOR NOVELS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF ARTS BY BEVERLY G. SHEFTALL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ATLANTA, GEORGIA August 1969 \ , i"! PREFACE This paper deals with William Faulkner's treatment of women in his major novels. These major works of his time of genius began in 1929 with the publication of Sartoris, the first indication that he had settled upon both a place---the legendary Yoknapatawpha County--- and a manner for his work. In the same year appeared The Sound and the Fury, one of the most important novels of the century. These two were followed by As I_ Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931), both written quickly and as "tours de force." In 1932, Light in August followed and in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! These six novels have been referred to by many critics as the core of Faulkner's major achieve ment. The novels introduce the special world of Yoknapatawpha County and offer an elaborate description of its topography and its people. ^-Unfortunately, the most extensive studies of Faulkner's women up until now, are unpublished theses. In 'William Faulkner: His ' Characterization and Use of Women" (Ohio State University, 1957) the author views his women as four types of symbolic sinfulness.' Nancy McFadden, in "Faulkner's Women in the Structure of the Yoknapatawpha World" (M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina, 1959), classifies women characters as weak, "relief figures," promis cuous, calm and serene, and strong and enduring.
    [Show full text]
  • A Companion to American Literature]
    Journal of Transnational American Studies 10.2 (Winter/Spring 2019–20) Reprise Connecting a Different Reading Public: Compiling [A Companion to American Literature] Yu Jianhua Shanghai International Studies University At the end of 2015, ten years after the project was initiated, A Companion to American Literature was finally published by Commercial Press in Beijing. This was the first attempt in Chinese academia at compiling a large-scale handbook covering foreign literature published in China and in Chinese. The Companion provides readers in China with easy access to sources in order for them to gain a better understanding of three hundred years of American literature. It includes well-known authors and their major works, literary historians and critics, literary journals, awards, organizations and movements, as well as terminologies such as “tall tale” and “minstrel show” that are unique to American literature. We started in a small way in 2003 after a suggestion from Fudan University Press that we provide a handy companion on American literature for Chinese undergraduates and graduate students. After American Literature: Authors and Their Works was published in 2005, a more ambitious plan emerged for a new handbook that was to be more comprehensive, and one that was to be written in Chinese for Chinese readers. The proposition received financial support from the Shanghai International Studies University Research Fund, and later, The National Social Science Fund of China, with more than thirty professors and young scholars participating in the project. After decisions were made in regard to the general layout and entries, we set to work, each responsible for an area that he or she specialized in, and together we contributed to the project that came to fruition ten years later.
    [Show full text]
  • History 135/Literature 135 the History and Literature of the 1960S
    History 135/Literature 135 The History and Literature of the 1960s Instructors: Professor Jan Goggans, Professor Sean Malloy Email: [email protected], [email protected] Office Hours: Professor Goggans (COB 315), Tue. 4:30-6:00 Professor Malloy (COB 311), Tue. 3:00-4:30 Course Website: Available via UCMCROPS Course Description We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. -- Students for a Democratic Society, 1962 I dig being free I like getting high I live for the revolution I’m a yippie! --Jerry Rubin, 1970 Meet the new boss Same as the old boss. -- The Who, 1971 Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. --Gloria Steinem, 1978 . and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? --Jack Kerouac, 1957 There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke -- Bob Dylan, 1967 Course Materials Required books: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House John Rechy, City of Night Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley Online reader: All readings not listed above have been placed online and are available at our CROPS website in the “Resources” folder grouped by week.
    [Show full text]