Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Spring 2013, 55:1
Winter 2012, 54:4
Fall 2012, 54:3
Summer 2012, 54:2
Spring 2012, 54:1
Winter 2011, 53:4
Fall 2011, 53:3
Summer 2011, 53:2
Spring 2011, 53:1
Winter 2010, 52:4
Fall 2010, 52:3
Summer 2010, 52:2
Spring 2010, 52:1
Winter 2009, 51:4
Fall 2009, 51:3
Summer 2009, 51:2
Spring 2009, 51:1
Winter 2008, 50:4
Fall 2008, 50:3
Summer 2008, 50:2
Spring 2008, 50:1
Archives

Spring 2013, 55:1

The Bedrock of Gravity: Pondering the Grammar of Fall in Geoffrey Hill

Susan Ang

Special Section: Literary Modernism and Melody

Edited by Marysa Demoor, Sarah Posman, and Debora Van Durme

Literary Modernism and Melody: An Avant-Propos

Marysa Demoor, Sarah Posman, and Debora Van Durme

Endless Melody

Jed Rasula

Wallace Stevens's Modernist Melodies

Bart Eeckhout

Gertrude Stein's Melodies: In Anticipation of the Loop

Michel Delville

Opera, Allegory, and Remembrance: The Certain Melody in Auden's and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

Sascha Bru

Ezra Pound and Charles Bernstein: Opera, Poetics, and the Fate of Humanism

Robert Zamsky

Winter 2012, 54:4

Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue

Kurt Heinzelman

The Perforated Amulet

Sevgi Soysal, translated by Ruth Whitehouse

Three Sections from "Istanbul" in Beş Şehir (Five Cities)

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, translated by Ruth Christie

Balcony

Hasan Ali Toptaş, translated by Amy Spangler and Nilgün Dungan

Edouard Roditi and the Istanbul Avant-Garde

Clifford Endres

Dirty, White candles: Ernest Hemingway's Encounter with the East

Mel Kenne

Heteroglossic Sprees and Murderous Viewpoints in Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red

Barish Ali and Caroline Hagood

A Heathen between Two Mosques

Behçet Çelik, translated by The Cunda Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature

Limits of the Imaginable in the Early Turkish Novel: Non-Muslim Prostitutes and Their Ottoman Muslim Clients

Hülya Yıldız

Yaşar Kemal, Son of Homer

Barry Tharaud

Fall 2012, 54:3
Linguistics and Literary Studies: Computation and Convergence Essays from the 2010 Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies

Guest Editors: Matt Cohen and Lars Hinrichs

Electronic Text Analysis and Nineteenth-Century Newspapers: TokenX and the Richmond Daily Dispatch

Elizabeth Lorang and Brian Pytlik Zillig

The Substantial Words Are in the Ground and Sea: Computationally Linking Text and Geography

Travis Brown, Jason Baldridge, Maria Esteva, and Weijia Xu

Editing in the Age of Automation

Amanda Gailey

Literary Forensics: Fingerprinting the Literary Dialects of Three Works of Plantation Fiction

Philip Leigh

A Variationist Approach to Text: What Role-Players Can Teach Us about Form and Meaning

Josh Iorio

Prototypical Characteristics of Blockbuster Movie Dialogue: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis

Dan McIntyre

The Story of one: Narrative and Composition in Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans

Tanya Clement

Summer 2012, 54:2
Tony Hilfer on Negative Spaces in Ecocriticism: A Monograph on the Sublime in Philosophy, Poetry, Short Story, and Film

Editor’s Note

Kurt Heinzelman

“The Nothing That Is”: Representations of Nature in American Writing

Anthony Channell Hilfer

Spring 2012, 54:1
Special Issue: Literature and Religious Conflict in the English Renaissance: Essays from the Inaugural Year of the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies

Guest Editors: Wayne A. Rebhorn and Frank Whigham

Introduction

Wayne A. Rebhorn and Frank Whigham

Rewriting Spiritual Community in Spenser, Donne, and the Book of Common Prayer

Daniel R. Gibbons

“A warre . . . commodious”: Dramatizing Islamic Schism in and after Tamburlaine

Jane Grogan

The Theater of the Damned: Religion and the Audience in the Tragedy of Christopher Marlowe

David K. Anderson

Reformed Dragons: Bevis of Hampton, Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene

Kenneth Hodges

Equivocation, Cognition, and Political Authority in Early Modern England

Todd Butler

Temperate Revenge: Religion, Profit, and Retaliation in 1622 Jamestown

Kasey Evans

The Politics of Truth in Herbert of Cherbury

Anita Gilman Sherman

Winter 2011, 53:4

Rereading Barbara Baynton’s Bush Studies

Leigh Dale

The Reflected Eye: Reading Race in Barbara Baynton’s “Billy Skywonkie”

Julieanne Lamond

“Trying all things”: Romantic Polymaths, Social Factors,and the Legacies of a Rhetorical Education

Catherine E. Ross

Dostoevsky and the Diamond Sutra: Jack Kerouac’s Karamazov Religion

Jesse Menefee

“Almost a Sense of Property”: Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, Modernism, and Commodity Culture

Guy Davidson

Fall 2011, 53:3

“Sallets in the Lines to Make the Matter Savoury”: Bakhtinian Speech Genres and Inserted Genres in Hamlet 2.2

Philip D. Collington

A and an in English Plays, 1580–1639

Hugh Craig

Populist Crane: A Reconsideration of Melodrama in Maggie

David Huntsperger

The Reader-Brand: Tolstoy in England at the Turn of the Century

Gwendolyn J. Blume

Ongitan and the Possibility of Oral Seeing in Beowulf

Robin Waugh

Dionysian Negative Theology in Donne’s “A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day”

Jennifer L. Nichols

Summer 2011, 53:2

Legacies of Reading in the Late Poetry of Thomas Merton

Dustin D. Stewart

New Left in Victorian Drag: The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Barry J. Faulk

Prague 1968: Spatiality and the Tactics of Resistance

Julia Friday

“upsidedown like fools”: Jack Kerouac’s “Desolation Blues” and the Struggle for Enlightenment

Todd Giles

The Strange Literary Career of Jean Toomer

Michael Nowlin

Spring 2011, 53:1

The “Backbone of England”: History, Memory, Landscape, and the Fordian Reconstruction of Englishness

Toby Henry Loeffler

A Savagist Abroad: Anti-Colonial Theory and the Quiet Violence in Twain’s Western Oeuvre

Susan Kalter

 

Winter 2010, 52:4

Edgar Allan Poe and the Author-Fiction: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Ki Yoon Jang

Becoming America's "Prophet of Outdoordom": John Burroughs and the Profession of Nature Writing, 1856–1880

Eric Lupfer

Beyond the Romance: The Aesthetics of Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters"

Edward Wesp

The Satirist Who Clowns: Mark Twain's Performance at the Whittier Birthday Celebration

James E. Caron

Fall 2010, 52:3

"One Important Witness": Remembering Lydia Brown in Thomas Dixon's The Clansman

Tara Bynum

"The Shape of Credit": Imagination, Speculation, and Language in Nostromo

Joshua Gooch

Modernist Looking: Surreal Impressions in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Brian Jackson

Speaking "to All Humanity": Renaissance Drama in Orhan Pamuk's Snow

Mary Jo Kietzman

Summer 2010, 52:2

Samuel Johnson as Intertextual Critic

Anthony W. Lee

Dickens's Genera Mixta: What Kind of a Novel is Hard Times?

Nils Clausson

Henry Miller and the Book of Life

Katy Masuga

"Shadow of Abandonment": Graham Green's The Confidential Agent

Robert Lance Snyder

Allen Ginsberg's Biographical Gestures

Jason Arthur

Spring 2010, 52:1

"Your Majesty's Self Is But a Ceremony": Laura (Riding) Jackson, Emerson, and the Conduct of Life

Luke Carson

Social Demarcation and the Forms of Psychological Fracture in Book One of Richard Wright's Native Son

Matthew Elder

Monstrous Rhetoric: Naked Lunch, National Insecurity, and the Gothic Fifties

Fiona Pato

Three Lean Cats in a Hall of Mirrors: James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and Eldridge Cleaver on Race and Masculinity

Douglas Taylor

The American Protest Novel in a Time of Terror: Carolyn Chute's Merry Men

Gregory Leon Miller

Winter 2009, 51:4
Special Issue: News of Ulysses: Readings and Re-Readings

Guest Editors: Charles Rossman and Alan W. Friedman

Don Giovanni on Eccles Street

Roy D. Carlson

Quotation Marks, the Gramophone Record, and the Language of the Outlaw

Damien Keane

Romantic "Ghoststory": Lingering Shades of Shelley in Ulysses

Michael Schandorf

The Role of Elijah in Ulysses's Metempsychosis

Tekla Schell

"Don't eat a beefsteak": Joyce and the Pythagoreans

Ariela Freedman

"Weggebobbles and Fruit": Bloom's Vegetarian Impulses

Marguerite M. Regan

Circean Aerodynamics

James F. Lowe

Molly and Bloom in the Lists of "Ithaca"

Tony Thwaites

"O, despise not my youth!": Senses, Sympathy, and an Intimate Aesthetics in Ulysses

Siân E. White

Fall 2009, 51:3
Britain before Modernism

The Loneness of the Stalker: Poaching and Subjectivity in The Parlement of the Thre Ages

Randy P. Schiff

The Grotesque Body in the Hollow Tub: Swift's Tale

William Freedman

Manufacturing Novels: Charles Dickens on the Hearth in Coketown

Elizabeth Starr

Noblemen Who Have Gone Wrong: Novel-Reading Pirates and the Victorian Stage in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance

Monica F. Cohen

Byron's Orphic Poetics and the Foundations of Literary Modernism

Christopher A. Strathman

Summer 2009, 51:2

Scratching the Surface: Reading Character in Female Quixotism

Jessica Lang

"Clothes upon sticks": James Fenimore Cooper and the Flat Frontier

Sandra Tomc

Intimate Geography: The Body, Race, and Space in Larsen's Quicksand

Laura E. Tanner

"[A]ll / things began in Order to / end in Ordainer": The Theological Poetics of Louis Zukofsky from "A" to X

Jonathan Ivry

Fun City: Kenneth Koch among Schoolchildren

Timothy Gray

Spring 2009, 51:1: Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond

Alan W. Friedman and Charles Rossman, Guest Editors

"The Protestant Thing to Do": Anglo-Irish Performance in James Joyce's Dubliners and Samuel Beckett's All That Fall

Emily C. Bloom

Hesitancy in Joyce and Beckett's Manuscripts

Dirk Van Hulle

From Hardware to Software, or "Rocks, Cocks, Creation, Defacation, and Death": Reading Joyce and Beckett in the Fourth Dimension

Rodney Sharkey

Samuel Beckett Meets Buster Keaton: Godeau, Film, and New York

Alan W. Friedman

"White World. Not a Sound": Beckett's Radioactive Text in Embers

James Jesson

"Thought of everything? . . . Forgotten nothing?": (Re-)Editing Beckett's Eh Joe

Justin Tremel

"Someone is Looking at me still": The Audience-Creature Relationship in the Theater Plays of Samuel Beckett

Matthew Davies

The Posthumous Worlds of Not I and Play

Brian Gatten

Giving Sam a Second Life: Beckett's Plays in the Age of Convergent Media

Sean McCarthy

Winter 2008, 50:4

Raiding, Reform, and Reaction: Wondrous Creatures in the Exeter Book Riddles

Brian McFadden

Pedagogy or Gerontagogy: The Education of the Miltonic Deity

Neil D. Graves

William Jones, "Eastern" Poetry, and the Problem of Imitation

Zak Sitter

"In a Room": Elizabeth Bishop in Europe, 1935-1937

Marit J. MacArthur

Fall 2008, 50:3, Cultures of Detention

The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison

H. Bruce Franklin

Detention Without Subjects: Prisons and the Poetics of Living Death

Caleb Smith

Pits, Pendulums, and Penitentiaries: Reframing the Detained Subject

Jason Haslam

Permeable Borders and American Prisons: Malcolm Braly's On the Yard

Katy Ryan

Reading and Reckoning in a Women's Prison

Megan Sweeney

Summer 2008, 50:2

Globalizing Jewish Communities: Mapping a Jewish Geography in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales

Miriamne Ara Krummel

George Puttenham's Lewd and Illicit Career

Steven W. May

Disputing Good Bishop's English: Martin Marprelate and the Voice of Menippean Opposition

Joseph Navitsky

Heroic Contradictions: Samson and the Death of Turnus

Maggie Kilgour

Spring 2008, 50:1

James Purdy's Allegories of Love

Don Adams

"Not to Creation or Destruction but to Truth": Robert Duncan, Kenneth Anger, and the Conversation between Film and Poetry

Daniel Kane

Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure in the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales

Martin Bidney

The Domestic Transcendentalism of Fanny Fern

Carole Moses

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