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Selected SLI Back Issues Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Selected SLI Back Issues 53.1 & 2 The Mirror Trope in Contemporary Experimental Literature (Saloua Karoui-Elounelli) 52.1 & 2 Literature and Medicine (Shu-Fang Lai & Peih-Ying Lu) 51.1 Suicidal Romanticism: Origins and Influences (Michelle Faubert) 51.2 Reading Love with Murdoch: Philosophy and Literature in the Work of Iris Murdoch (Rossitsa
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Death and Domesticity: Reassessing Domestic Dramas of the Renaissance Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Brent Griffin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Death and Domesticity: Reassessing Domestic Dramas of the Renaissance Brent Griffin (bio) “[T]o call back yesterday; / That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours” (13.48–50): Thomas Heywood’s poignant lines from A Woman Killed with Kindness provide a sentiment familiar to all those who
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Inside Out: Early Modern Domestic Tragedy and the Dramaturgy of Extrusion Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Emma K. Atwood
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Inside Out: Early Modern Domestic Tragedy and the Dramaturgy of Extrusion Emma K. Atwood (bio) Domestic tragedy has constituted a distinct genre of study for the past hundred years, beginning with a 1925 dissertation by Edward Ayers Taylor, who sought to categorize a number of largely forgotten and lost plays (Orlin, “Domestic” 390). Since
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The Role of the Reluctant Harbinger in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Joseph L. Kelly
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Role of the Reluctant Harbinger in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness Joseph L. Kelly (bio) Arden of Faversham (Anonymous 1592) and A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood 1607), two very different plays that exemplify the distinctive sub-genre of “domestic tragedy,” both feature a unique supporting role, each
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Fair Women, Red Hands, Black Will(s): Domestic Tragedy's Racial Logic Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ariane M. Balizet
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Fair Women, Red Hands, Black Will(s): Domestic Tragedy’s Racial Logic Ariane M. Balizet (bio) In Thomas Middleton’s 1608 A Yorkshire Tragedy, the protagonist—a profligate, ferocious householder known only as the “Husband”—is in a gambling-induced rage when his eldest son enters the room and attempts to spin a top at his feet. As the Husband
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Finding Her Conscience: Auditing Female Confession in A Warning for Fair Women Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Cheryl Birdseye
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Finding Her Conscience: Auditing Female Confession in A Warning for Fair Women Cheryl Birdseye (bio) The anonymous A Warning for Fair Women dates from the late-sixteenth century and was based on the real murder of George Sanders by George Browne (who was in love with Sanders’s wife, Anne) in 1573. Significant attention has been paid to
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Student-Friendly Editions—a Pedagogical and Scholarly Experiment with A Warning for Fair Women Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ann Christensen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Student-Friendly Editions—a Pedagogical and Scholarly Experiment with A Warning for Fair Women Ann Christensen (bio) This essay documents a yearlong process to involve undergraduates in research, writing, and performance relating to the play I was editing at the time, A Warning for Fair Women, the unattributed 1599 true-crime domestic
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Interrogating Genre: Domestic Tragedy, Closet Drama, and the Case of Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry (1613) Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Barbara Sebek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Interrogating Genre: Domestic Tragedy, Closet Drama, and the Case of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry (1613) Barbara Sebek (bio) At the conference that was the genesis of this special issue, I deliberately discussed tragic plays that deviate from the key features of English domestic tragedy that scholars ordinarily
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"Sworn to sweat": Witchcraft, Labor, and Wicked Consumption in Middleton's The Witch Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Molly Hand
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Sworn to sweat”: Witchcraft, Labor, and Wicked Consumption in Middleton’s The Witch Molly Hand (bio) I am cooking as I write this, preparing dinner for my husband and me (with a morsel reserved for Beatrice, our “canine daughter,” of course). I can write while I cook because I have a device that does the work for me: I just place the
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Contributors Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2024-01-13
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Emma K. Atwood Emma K. Atwood is Associate Professor of English at the University of Montevallo, Alabama’s only public liberal arts university. At Montevallo, she directs the graduate program in English and teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern women and gender. She has published articles in Comparative
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The Trope of the Mirror in Contemporary Experimental Literature Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Saloua Karoui-Elounelli
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Trope of the Mirror in Contemporary Experimental Literature Saloua Karoui-Elounelli Ever since M. H. Abrams used the metaphor of the mirror in his theorizing of mimetic literature, the trope has been invested in communicating opposed tendencies of literary creativity and largely antithetical conceptions of the literary art. Indeed
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"Some Black, Cracked Mirror, Barely Surviving Its Own Sharp Edges": Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn and the "Twinned," Fractured Nature of Contemporary America Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 David Buehrer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Some Black, Cracked Mirror, Barely Surviving Its Own Sharp Edges”: Steve Erickson’s Shadowbahn and the “Twinned,” Fractured Nature of Contemporary America David Buehrer (bio) Steve Erickson’s experimental contemporary American fiction has always blurred the lines between realism and surrealism on one hand and the historical and fantastic
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The Ekphrastic Visual / Verbal Game of Mirroring in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Yosr Dridi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Ekphrastic Visual / Verbal Game of Mirroring in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 Yosr Dridi (bio) Ever since the publication of André Gide’s 1893 journal, the mirror trope in artistic representation has been irrevocably linked to the originally heraldic metaphor1 of mise-en-abyme. Describing the paintings of Hans Memling and Quentin
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Magic Mirrors and the (Im)-Possibility of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Salaman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Nejib Souissi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Magic Mirrors and the (Im)-Possibility of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Salaman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence Nejib Souissi (bio) Reminiscent of the Arabian Nights in its fabulous atmosphere and the overall mediation of reality through fantasy, Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence is a “‘historical novel’ that mirrors contemporary
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Poetic Mirrors and the Violence of the Self-Reflexive in Post-Colonial Poetry Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Noureddine Fekir
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Poetic Mirrors and the Violence of the Self-Reflexive in Post-Colonial Poetry Noureddine Fekir (bio) This paper investigates some aspects and implications of self-reflexivity in the verse of modern African poets, poets of African descent, and others such as Pablo Neruda and Mahmoud Darwish, who are associated with resistance to different
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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five A Reappraisal, or, "There is 'Something' Intelligent to Say About a Massacre." Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Sadok Bouhlila
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five A Reappraisal, or, “There is ‘Something’ Intelligent to Say About a Massacre.”* Sadok Bouhlila (bio) We tend to think of experiments as cold exercises in technique. My feeling-about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. —John Barth “Once upon a time” crowds
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American Postmodern Metafiction Through the (Un)looking Glass: "Cartesian Sonata" by William Gass and Whistlejacket by John Hawkes Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Saloua Karoui-Elounelli
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: American Postmodern Metafiction Through the (Un)looking Glass: “Cartesian Sonata” by William Gass and Whistlejacket by John Hawkes* Saloua Karoui-Elounelli (bio) Stepping from the treacherous passage at last into the mirror-maze, he saw once again, more clearly than ever, how readily he deceived himself into supposing he was a person.
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Contributors Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-05-17
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Sadok Bouhlila is Professor of English literature at the Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Manouba. His areas of interest include modern fiction, literary theory, utopian and dystopian studies, science fiction, and posthumanism. He published Modern Dystopian Fiction: Genesis, Typology, Evaluation
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Reflections on Literature and Medicine, Their Interactions and Influence Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Shu-Fang Lai, Peih-Ying Lu
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reflections on Literature and Medicine, Their Interactions and Influence Shu-Fang Lai (bio) and Peih-Ying Lu (bio) The present double issue originated in the guest editors' joint attempt to associate literary studies with medics, medicine, and the health profession. In response to the global outbreaks of the recent pandemics that have
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Interview, Story, Conversation, or Poem? Reframing the Medical Consultation Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-02-16 John Blair Corbett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Interview, Story, Conversation, or Poem?Reframing the Medical Consultation John Blair Corbett (bio) The issue of communication between healthcare provider and patient has long been considered problematical. The idea that a doctor should develop a reassuring bedside manner is first attested in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1869, and
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"I was named Doctor": Fancy about Medicine in Dickens's Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Shu-Fang Lai
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "I was named Doctor":Fancy about Medicine in Dickens's Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions Shu-Fang Lai (bio) It is well acknowledged that Dickens's novels and journalism have formed a canon of realistic reflections on Victorian lives containing people, ideas, and events related to medicine, among other subject matter. Doctors attending to
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To "foil the ingenuity of Pain": Byron's The Lament of Tasso Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Adam White
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: To "foil the ingenuity of Pain":Byron's The Lament of Tasso Adam White (bio) A number of figures in Byron's poems and plays, from the prisoner of Chillon to Manfred and Marino Faliero, find themselves in states of mental distress. But less remarked upon is the way that several figures in Byron's poems and plays also suffer bodily pain
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The Medical Science of Nostalgia and the Romantic "Science of Feelings" Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Chia-Jung Lee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Medical Science of Nostalgia and the Romantic "Science of Feelings" Chia-Jung Lee (bio) The perceptions of historicity and mortality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain have reshaped the forming representation of grief in poetry. This article attempts to study the cognitive assimilations of memory, mourning, and nostalgia
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Alzheimer's Disease and the Ethics of Care in the Graphic Memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Hsin-Ju Kuo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Alzheimer's Disease and the Ethics of Care in the Graphic Memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me Hsin-Ju Kuo (bio) 1. Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me1 Sarah Leavitt published her graphic memoir, Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me in 2012. Since its publication, Tangles has
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Introduction Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis (bio) Anniversaries come and go with stern inevitability, overwhelming the ones who are there to remember. This special issue of SLI: Studies in the Literary Imagination is dedicated to a commemoration in 2019 of the centenary of Iris Murdoch’s birth and the twentieth anniversary of her death. The
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On the Failure of Philosophy to "think love": Iris Murdoch as Phenomenologist Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Margaret Guise
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On the Failure of Philosophy to “think love”: Iris Murdoch as Phenomenologist Margaret Guise (bio) The novelist proper is a sort of phenomenologist.… He has always been, what the very latest philosophers claim to be, a describer rather than explainer; and in consequence he has often anticipated the philosophers’ discoveries. —Murdoch,
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Talk of Lovers in a Great Hall of Reflection: Rereading Iris Murdoch's The Fire and the Sun and The Bell Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Hannah Marije Altorf
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Talk of Lovers in a Great Hall of Reflection: Rereading Iris Murdoch’s The Fire and the Sun and The Bell Hannah Marije Altorf (bio) Socrates: Plato has been telling us about being in love. Alcibiades: My subject too! Timonax: He’s in love with Good. Alcibiades: Is it mutual? —Murdoch, “Above the Gods” 522 Introduction Love is a crucial
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The Just and Erotic Gaze: Iris Murdoch's Moral Ontology Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Hank Spaulding
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Just and Erotic Gaze: Iris Murdoch’s Moral Ontology Hank Spaulding For Eros: “When you love,May you feel the joyOf your heart coming aliveAs your lover’s gazeLands on your eyes,Holding them,Like the weight of a kissDeepening.” —O’Donohue 27 Love, as philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch writes, “shifts the center of the world from
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"These fragments I have shored against my ruins": Poetry, Multiplicity, and Being-towards-Death in The Time of the Angels and A Word Child Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Fiona Tomkinson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”: Poetry, Multiplicity, and Being-towards-Death in The Time of the Angels and A Word Child Fiona Tomkinson (bio) At the beginning of Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels, we are introduced to the character of Pattie O’Driscoll, a young woman of mixed race, living in an ambiguous position
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Colors of Consciousness in the Novels of Iris Murdoch Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Rebecca Moden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Colors of Consciousness in the Novels of Iris Murdoch Rebecca Moden (bio) “There’s extraordinary electrical power, joy, variety and difference one can have simply by thinking about colour,” Iris Murdoch said in a 1993 interview for Modern Painters (“Beautiful” 50). Her sustained scrutiny of color was an essential aspect of her complex
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Making Love to Apollo: The Agalmatophilia of Iris Murdoch's Athenian Lovers in A Fairly Honourable Defeat Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Athanasios Dimakis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Making Love to Apollo: The Agalmatophilia of Iris Murdoch’s Athenian Lovers in A Fairly Honourable Defeat Athanasios Dimakis (bio) This essay explores the theme of Apollonian love in Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat. It traces the morally laden scopic and solar milieu of the novel that informs the portrayals of Morgan Browne’s
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"What a fuss about probably nothing": Iris Murdoch's Ordinary Queerness Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 David J. Fine
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “What a fuss about probably nothing”: Iris Murdoch’s Ordinary Queerness David J. Fine (bio) In his introduction to Fear of a Queer Planet, Michael Warner defines the word queer in terms of its opposition to the ordinary. Queer, he writes, “rejects a minoritizing logic of toleration or simple political interest-representation in favor of
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Contributors Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Hannah Marije Altorf was, until Autumn 2020, Reader in Philosophy. She has written on the philosophical and literary works of Iris Murdoch and on different forms of philosophical dialogue. She is the author of Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining (Continuum 2008) and together with Mariëtte Willemsen she translated Iris Murdoch’s
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Introduction Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis (bio) Anniversaries come and go with stern inevitability, overwhelming the ones who are there to remember. This special issue of SLI: Studies in the Literary Imagination is dedicated to a commemoration in 2019 of the centenary of Iris Murdoch’s birth and the twentieth anniversary of her death. The
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Contributors Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Hannah Marije Altorf was, until Autumn 2020, Reader in Philosophy. She has written on the philosophical and literary works of Iris Murdoch and on different forms of philosophical dialogue. She is the author of Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining (Continuum 2008) and together with Mariëtte Willemsen she translated Iris Murdoch’s
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"What a fuss about probably nothing": Iris Murdoch's Ordinary Queerness Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 David J. Fine
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “What a fuss about probably nothing”: Iris Murdoch’s Ordinary Queerness David J. Fine (bio) In his introduction to Fear of a Queer Planet, Michael Warner defines the word queer in terms of its opposition to the ordinary. Queer, he writes, “rejects a minoritizing logic of toleration or simple political interest-representation in favor of
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Colors of Consciousness in the Novels of Iris Murdoch Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Rebecca Moden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Colors of Consciousness in the Novels of Iris Murdoch Rebecca Moden (bio) “There’s extraordinary electrical power, joy, variety and difference one can have simply by thinking about colour,” Iris Murdoch said in a 1993 interview for Modern Painters (“Beautiful” 50). Her sustained scrutiny of color was an essential aspect of her complex
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"These fragments I have shored against my ruins": Poetry, Multiplicity, and Being-towards-Death in The Time of the Angels and A Word Child Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Fiona Tomkinson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”: Poetry, Multiplicity, and Being-towards-Death in The Time of the Angels and A Word Child Fiona Tomkinson (bio) At the beginning of Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels, we are introduced to the character of Pattie O’Driscoll, a young woman of mixed race, living in an ambiguous position
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Talk of Lovers in a Great Hall of Reflection: Rereading Iris Murdoch's The Fire and the Sun and The Bell Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Hannah Marije Altorf
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Talk of Lovers in a Great Hall of Reflection: Rereading Iris Murdoch’s The Fire and the Sun and The Bell Hannah Marije Altorf (bio) Socrates: Plato has been telling us about being in love. Alcibiades: My subject too! Timonax: He’s in love with Good. Alcibiades: Is it mutual? —Murdoch, “Above the Gods” 522 Introduction Love is a crucial
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The Just and Erotic Gaze: Iris Murdoch's Moral Ontology Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Hank Spaulding
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Just and Erotic Gaze: Iris Murdoch’s Moral Ontology Hank Spaulding For Eros: “When you love,May you feel the joyOf your heart coming aliveAs your lover’s gazeLands on your eyes,Holding them,Like the weight of a kissDeepening.” —O’Donohue 27 Love, as philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch writes, “shifts the center of the world from
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On the Failure of Philosophy to "think love": Iris Murdoch as Phenomenologist Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Margaret Guise
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On the Failure of Philosophy to “think love”: Iris Murdoch as Phenomenologist Margaret Guise (bio) The novelist proper is a sort of phenomenologist.… He has always been, what the very latest philosophers claim to be, a describer rather than explainer; and in consequence he has often anticipated the philosophers’ discoveries. —Murdoch,
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Making Love to Apollo: The Agalmatophilia of Iris Murdoch's Athenian Lovers in A Fairly Honourable Defeat Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Athanasios Dimakis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Making Love to Apollo: The Agalmatophilia of Iris Murdoch’s Athenian Lovers in A Fairly Honourable Defeat Athanasios Dimakis (bio) This essay explores the theme of Apollonian love in Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat. It traces the morally laden scopic and solar milieu of the novel that informs the portrayals of Morgan Browne’s
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Introduction to "Suicidal Romanticism: Origins and Influences" Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Michelle Faubert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction to "Suicidal Romanticism:Origins and Influences" Michelle Faubert (bio) The essays in this issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination broaden the important conversation on suicide by providing newly recovered ways of thinking about it in relation to Romantic-era cultural forces, the prehistory of these ways of thinking,
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The Interracial Marriage Plot: Suicide and the Politics of Blood in Romantic-era Women's Fiction Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Deanna P. Koretsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Interracial Marriage Plot:Suicide and the Politics of Blood in Romantic-era Women's Fiction Deanna P. Koretsky (bio) The term "Romantic suicide" tends to evoke sentimental modes of personal expression associated with well-known white men like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Werther, John Keats, and Thomas Chatterton. Yet as a number of
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Romantically Speaking to Save the Suicidal Self in Tennessee Williams and Mary Shelley Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Kirsty Cameron
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Romantically Speaking to Save the Suicidal Self in Tennessee Williams and Mary Shelley Kirsty Cameron (bio) It is uncommon to situate the topic of Romantic suicide in twentieth-century American letters. Yet, an uncustomary pairing of works between Mary Shelley and renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams illuminates a similar preoccupation
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Suicide and Sovereignty in William Wordsworth Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Andrew Bennett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Suicide and Sovereignty in William Wordsworth Andrew Bennett (bio) The problem of suicide is the problem of sovereignty. Twentieth-century suicide theorists such as Jean Baechler, Jean Améry, Anthony Giddens, and Simon Critchley argue that in taking one's own life the individual "proclaims his autonomy and sovereignty" over that life;
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The "victim of too much loving": Perdita Verney's Self-Destructive Sympathy in Mary Shelley's The Last Man Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The "victim of too much loving":Perdita Verney's Self-Destructive Sympathy in Mary Shelley's The Last Man Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square (bio) I have lost you, myself, my life. —Perdita Verney (The Last Man 124)1 In Mary Shelley's fiction, sympathy is represented as a curious and dizzying paradox, her novels conspicuously and vividly registering
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Calvinism, Enthusiasm, and Suicide: The Regulation of Subjectivity in the Romantic Period Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Michelle Faubert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Calvinism, Enthusiasm, and Suicide:The Regulation of Subjectivity in the Romantic Period Michelle Faubert (bio) Since the Renaissance period, Calvinism has been linked to suicide in the popular imaginary, even though it has always been unequivocal in condemning the act. This commonly held belief pronounces Calvinism as enthusiastic in
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Speculation, Suicide, and the Silver Fork Novel Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Leigh Wetherall Dickson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Speculation, Suicide, and the Silver Fork Novel Leigh Wetherall Dickson (bio) Having finished reading a new novel, Lady Holland wrote to her son with her verdict: "There is nothing that makes much genius in the author: it is evidently by a man who has seen London society, tho' he talks of a person as gentlemanly. It is mixed up with bad
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"I leave thee not": Felicia Hemans and Maternal Suicide Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Kelly McGuire
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "I leave thee not":Felicia Hemans and Maternal Suicide Kelly McGuire (bio) The history of suicide, as Michael MacDonald and Terence Murphy maintain, is the "history of illusions," distorted by modern assumptions and faulty record keeping (247). The fact that these records indicate a significant gender imbalance, with men "returned as suicides
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Contributors Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2020-02-13
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. His books include Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace (2017), Wordsworth Writing (2007), Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity (1999), Keats, Narrative and Audience (1994), and, as editor, William Wordsworth
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"Any Man's Blues": Exposing the Crisis of African-American Masculinity in the Delusion of a Post-Racial United States in Toni Morrison's Home Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Vicent Cucarella-Ramon
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Revising the Mythology of the American West after 9/11: Sam Shepard's The God of Hell Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 David Río
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Iraqi Ghosts in the Heart of America: Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Ana Fernández-Caparrós
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The Forgotten Victims of 9/11: Cultural Othering in Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Elena Ortells Montón
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Introduction: Imagining Crisis in Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Media Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Anna M. Brígido-Corachán,Ana Fernández-Caparrós
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A Way Out of the Female Complaint? Rethinking the Crisis of Contemporary Femininity in Emma Cline's The Girls Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Laura de la Parra Fernández
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The Walking Dad: Masochism, Martyrdom, and Apocalyptic Longing in White Patriarchy's Current Crisis Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Thomas B. Byers
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The Age of Humans Meets Posthumanism: Reflections on Don DeLillo's Zero K Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Alexandra K. Glavanakova
The scientific community disagrees over the date of the beginning of the Anthropocene. According to William Ruddiman, who proposed the “early Anthropocene” hypothesis, the onset of this era can be located some eight thousand years ago. The Anthropocene Working Group, set up by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and also supported by the
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Material Nature, Visual Sovereignty, and Water Rights: Unpacking the Standing Rock Movement Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Anna M. Brígido Corachán
The 11-foot-tall mile-marker made by activists at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in 2016 is one of the most emblematic visual icons of the Standing Rock movement. Hand-carved from wood and pointing to Native American reservations, nature sites, cities, and foreign countries, among others, the mile-marker post bears witness to the multilayered preoccupations and collective strategies of the protestors against