The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work,enabling students and ...researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes), and as individual volumes.
Definitions of teacher leader- ship rest in teachers' "empowerment and agency" (Muijs & Harris, 2003, p. 439) to impact students, schools, and communities, as well as their ability to develop the ...skills and responsibility needed to improve the contexts in which they work (Perrillo, 2010). For teacher educators, this means working with preservice teachers to address leadership as actions, skills, and dispositions "inherent to their role as teachers and professionals" (Forster, 1997, p. 88) that rest in the development of identity, agency, and expertise (Forde & Dickson, 2017). Because I can't quite fall in line with leadership that leads nowhere. ...leadership is the acknowledgment that no one is an island; leaders are a piece of the collective, a part of the main, because they are involved in the same endeavors as those they hope to lead.3 None of the articles in this issue expressly address leadership, yet the authors are leading us all the same: to think, to question, to act. James Joshua Coleman's examination of affective reader response is guided by an interrogation of literacy normativities, directing us to consider how "English teacher educators, ELA teachers, and teacher candidates can repair the harm enacted by the field's colonialist, white supremacist, queerphobic, cisnormative, and ableist origins" (p. 273) through new ways of reading and responding to literature.
This essay argues that Thomas Stanley's magisterial History of Philosophy influenced the evolution of Margaret Cavendish's thought in ways that have not been previously recognized. While scholars ...have discussed Cavendish's evolving views of atomism and materialism, a comparison of her attitudes toward Pythagoras and toward skepticism before and after 1660 suggests that Cavendish adopted a more nuanced approach to skepticism-and to philosophical debate and dissent more generally-after encountering Stanley's work. Her reading of Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism in Stanley's 1660 volume may also have informed her vigorous epistolary exchanges with Joseph Glanvill on the subject of witchcraft.
The Editorial Board of Studies in Philology has awarded the 2017 Louis Round Wilson Prize to Achsah Guibbory for her article "Reconsidering Donne: From Libertine Poetry to Arminian Sermons,"
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In Theory of the Lyric Jonathan Culler makes powerful arguments for analogies between lyric and song, especially with regard to each medium’s commitment to producing pleasure and separating ...the speaking voice from individual psychology. But his case runs the risk of avoiding or oversimplifying lyric poems that resist these analogies. These poems call for interpretive acts that fully engage the work of syntax and structure in establishing distinctive modes of experience. Here Shakespeare’s sonnets demonstrate the roles syntax and structure can play, especially in cultivating complex acts of self-consciousness for which Hegel provides our best critical lens. With this focus, some important roles played by metaphysical conceits also become clear. The conceit forces acts of intense reflection. In the poetry, quintessentially in Donne’s “The Extasie,” there emerges a drama of the agents carrying out distinctive acts of self-interpretation: the fullness of love depends on hearing themselves speak and trying to imagine the objective difference that hearing is making in their behavior toward the other lover.
Ben Jonson's 1623 poem "An Execration upon Vulcan" responds to a fire in his house, which seemingly destroyed some books and papers. Scholarly interest in this work has largely been confined to what ...biographical information it reveals. Yet this poem is in dialogue with Cervantes's Don Quixote , Rabelais's Pantagruel , and Donne's The Courtier's Library , and it engages with the genre of the mock library catalogue. By bringing together these works, the essay not only contributes to ongoing study of such Jonsonian concerns as censorship, interpretation, and the value of learning but also highlights his interest in contemporary European comic literature and the closeness of his association with Donne. It sheds light on early modern literature's self-consciousness about the library as a malleable concept, a self-consciousness with important methodological implications for critics and historians of the period.
A Furnace Without Angels is a hybrid work of poetry and non-fiction prose essays revolving around a crisis of faith. With the speaker’s brain always in a state of impending apocalypse, ...information—biological, personal, spiritual—is filtered down through a Biblical syntax, struggling to form an equation that results with ‘but you should live anyways.’ The poems lean toward imagination—the abstract, the surreal. The non-fiction prose flits between academic interest and attempts to recontextualize a fading belief in God. It’s hard to say if anyone wins.
Editor's Note Palmer, R Barton
The Tennessee Williams annual review,
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Williams himself, one suspects, would take much pleasure in Sehnsucht's reinvention of his work, as Karabulut and the others involved in the project suggest to audiences that oppression and ...hard-bitten insistence on the conventional are perhaps most insidious when unconventional on the surface. Since its founding by Robert Bray, the Review has also worked to convey the internationalism of Williams's appeal. In those cases where a work exists in more than one version, it might seem easy enough simply to defer to authorial preference, but Jeffrey B. Loomis's fascinating account of what we might call the evolution of Sweet Bird of Youth quickly dispels such certainty. In addition to marshaling important evidence about the production and publication history of the play, Loomis carefully details what distinguishes the various extant versions of Sweet Bird from one another, placing them and the archival evidence in sequence to tell the story of the circumstances, including production histories, that gave rise to each of them. Writers often stipulate in their wills what they do not wish to survive them, though these wishes are sometimes ignored by literary executors. Because Williams's death was accidental and sudden, he did not have time to prepare carefully his literary legacy.
Frontain points out another plausible source for Tennesse Williams' metaphysical preoccupation with the conflict between spirit and flesh: the poetry of John Donne. Donne is neither a source for nor ...influence on Williams in the traditional philological sense. Still, the early modern poet is a figure who resonates with much in Williams' work, as a poet who incarnates a literary mode. The liminal presence of Donne in the aftermath of Battle of Angels' troubled premiere provides a useful entrée to understanding his sympathetic presence in the background of at least two of Williams' earlier plays, Battle of Angels (1940) and Summer and Smoke (1948).
