Leonard Diepeveen, The Difficulties of Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2003. xviii+ 318
pp. $24.95 paper. eviewing Eliot's “The Waste Land” and Joyce's Ulysses in the inaugural …

Leonard Diepeveen, The Difficulties of Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2003. xviii+ 318
pp. $24.95 paper. eviewing Eliot's “The Waste Land” and Joyce's Ulysses in the inaugural …

" Elitism" is a term that has always made me just a bit uneasy. I have never believed that I
needed that label to verify my status as professor of English, as editor of one of the most …

To move from a novel as explicitly transgressive as Tristram Shandy to the proprieties of
Pride and Prejudice (1813) might seem no easy transition. Yet, as we ended Chapter 2 with …

Harvard, especially the influence of Irving Babbittʼs lectures there, helped foster his
repudiation of the Romantic forbears of turn-of-the-century poetics. 1 In 1919, he had stated …

The problem of" literariness" has been with us for awhile. Jakobsonian struc-turalism
claimed to have found an answer in the peculiar kind of language that literary language is …

BOOK REVIEWS/463 still stamped heavily upon it), the pieces that drew me in were
incredibly pleasurable and enlightening reading experiences, and at times they reminded …

In the introduction to Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in an Age of Media (1992), the noted
literary theorist and advocate for postmodernist poetry Marjorie Perloff recounts the question …

If I did not feel that Monika Fludernik's review in MFS 34: 4 of my Reading Joyce's “Ulysses”
raised fundamental issues for the study of literature, I would not respond. In my study, I seek …

Alan Palmer's essay “Social minds” is a very interesting contribution to understanding how
literary works enable us to understand the social nature of mind. Here, I concentrate on just …