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‘Vancouver Walking’: Contemporary Canadian Urban Poetry
"Homonyms before and after Lexical Standardization"
"New Alchimie": Reading John Donne's "Nocturnall" Through Poems by Kimberly Johnson and Alice Fulton
"Single Nature's Double Name": Some Comments on The Phoenix and Turtle
"The Road Not Taken" in Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
"The road to happiness": Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
(Re-)Telling Aesopic fables in the 21st century
(Un-)Surprise in Alice
A Sentimental Journey: Lost in Translation
Colin Clout's Homecoming: The Imaginative Travels of Edmund Spenser
De Doctrina Christiana and Milton
Dracula and the Idea of Europe
If and It in Shakespeare
Lolita's Sources
Macbeth and Problems of Identity
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Piers Plowman
Silas Marner as Quasi-religious Text
The Faerie Queene as Satirical Intertext
The Family Reunion: Eliot, James, and the Buried Life
The Secret Garden and Wuthering Heights
The Tempest in the Trivium
Titus Andronicus in the Early Eighteenth Century
A Bakhtinian Take on Conversational Modes in Poetry
A Good Natured Warning: Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno'
A Reading of George Herbert's "Heaven"
A Visitation of Kipling's Daemon?
A. S. Byatt's Angels and Insects
Adaptations and the Initiating Text
Advertising and Vindicating Eighteenth-Century Novels
Agency in Vaughan's Sacred Poetry
Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George III
Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"
Ambiguity and Ethics in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns
Ambiguity and the Poets
An Introduction to Metagenre
Textual and Other Reasons for Canonicity
Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes
Anthologizing Shakespeare‘s Sonnets
Anthony Burgess's Shakespeare and "fin de siècle" Conceptions of Genius
Arthur Golding's Translation of Ovid
Arthur Kopit's The Hero in Context
Artistic Rivalry Over Classes and Countries
Artists as Parents
Assessments of the Urban Experience: Toni Morrison's Jazz and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Ben Jonson's Dramaturgy of Procreation
Between Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth
Blending Genres in Sidney's Arcadia
Byron's Procreative Poetry
C. S. Lewis's Complex Relationship with Queer Milton Studies
Carnival and the Grotesque in Ben Jonson's Plays
Catholic Shakespeare?
Character Names in The Winter's Tale
Charles Talbut Onions and the Oxford English Dictionary
Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, Nature and the Sublime
Chasing Possibilities in "The Jolly Corner"
Chinese Diaspora Writing
Christmas as Humbug: A Manuscript Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon ('L. E. L.')
Christopher Marlowe's Edward II
Class, Race, and Sexuality in John Gray's Park
Clones, Doubles and What’s in Between
Close Reading Donne
Competing Discourses in The Winter's Tale
Concepts of Honor in Shakespeare
Conrad, Capitalism and Decay
Contemporary Perspectives on Verse Drama
Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism
Conversation in Celan's Poetry
Criminality and Detection in Eric Ambler's The Siege of the Villa Lipp
Crucifixion Imagery in Paradise Lost
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year
Decadence and Renewal in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
Defoe and "The Other"
Dickens and Colour
Dickens and the Comic Extraneous
Dickens' A Christmas Carol: Revisiting and Reformation
Discourse in Pinter
Disenfranchisement and Diegesis in David Goodis
Doctor Faustus and His Books
Don Juan Between the Cultures: Derek Walcott and Tirso de Molina
Donald Barthelme as Disgruntled Liberal
Donne's Anniversaries: Matter and Spirit, Body and Soul, Time and Eternity
Donne's Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word
Drama and Stage Design in the Stuart Masque
Dylan Thomas: Place, Voice, Rebirth
E. K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading
Edward Taylor's Poetry
Edwin Muir's Chorus of the Newly Dead and its Analogues
Ekphrastic Poetry and the Black Atlantic
Elegance and Poetic Economy
Elizabeth Bishop: Language, Gender, Class
Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Prodigal'
Elizabethan Drama and the Seasons
Ellipsis in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Emerson and Milton
Empirical Readings of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"
Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion
Evelyn Waugh's Humanism in A Handful of Dust
Falconbridge in Shakespeare's King John
Faulkner and Race
Faulkner and Racial Mythology
Faulkner and Racism
Faulkner and the Problematics of Procreation
Formal Limitations in Golden Age Villanelles
From Poetry to the Novel
Gary Snyder's Sense of Place
Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame
Geoffrey Household's Thrillers
George Herbert and Nature
George Orwell's Style and his Politics
Gerald Manley Hopkins Revisiting Binsey
Ghosts and Resurrections in Hardy, Joyce and Beyond
Grotesque Mythology: Faulkner's The Hamlet
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Concept of Divine Womanhood
Hawthorne and Poetic Economy
Henry James's The Jolly Corner
Henry James's Turn of the Screw as Tragedy
Henry Vaughan's "Isaac's Marriage"
Herman Melville and Christian Grabbe: A Source for "The Godhead is Broken"
Herman Melville and Cosmopolitanism
Historical Fetters and Creative Liberation in Shakespeare
Homosexuality in John Milton's Paradise Lost
Hopkins and Home
Hopkins's Portraits of the Artist
How to Have a Conversation with Gertrude Stein
Identity Politics in Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Plays
Image and Imagism
Interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities
Jacqueline Vaught Brogan's "Notes from the Body"
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Jane Hirshfield and Modernism
Joe Orton's Laodicean Tragedy: The Good and Faithful Servant
John Dryden's Concept of Poetry and Imitation
John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise
John Lyly and the Most Misread Speech in Shakespeare
John Lyly's Poetic Economy
John Marston's The Malcontent
Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Mann
Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River"
Kazuo Ishiguro and Tom Stoppard
Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice
Len Deighton’s Political Skepticism in The Ipcress File
Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita
Literary Allusions and Poetic Economy
Literature and Cliché
Literature and Mnemology
Lost and Found: Textual and Intertextual Retrieval in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Exhumation Letters and the ‘Willowwood‘ Sonnets
Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal
Love, not-love and “amor Dei” in George Herbert’s “Affliction (I)”
Maria's Riddle in Twelfth Night
Marx’s scholia: Annotations Involving Classical and Renaissance Texts in Capital
Mary Butts and the Return of the Nativist
Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey
Medieval Visions of the Other World
Medievalist Perspectives on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Melville's Pierre
Meta-Epic Reflection in Twenty-First-Century Rewritings of Homer, or: The Meta-Epic Novel
Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature
Miles Franklin's My Career Goes Bung
Milton and the Restoration
Milton's Astronomy
Mnemonics and Renaissance Literature
Motives for Rhetoric and Action in Troilus and Cressida
Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy
Music and Literature in Conversation
Music as Textual Principle in Toni Morrison's Jazz
Myth and Language - Mythos and Logos in Emily Dickinson
Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs
Myth in the Contemporary American Theatre
Naming und Unnaming in Spenser
Narrative Techniques and the Fragmented Hero in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier
New Intertexts for David Dabydeen’s “Turner”
Prefaces
Old England and Shakespeare's Nostalgia
On English-Canadian Literary Criticism
On the Reception of Poetry
On Writing in Second Person
Oppositions in Thomas Heywood's The English Traveller
P. G. Wodehouse and Arthurian Legend
Paradise Remembered in Poems and Paintings
Parodies of Six-Word Stories: A Comic Literary Metagenre
Parody as Cultural Memory in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2
Parody—and Self-Parody in David Mamet
Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest
Parody, Satire and Sympathy in Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels
Paronomasia from Sidney to Herbert
Paronomasia in the Poems of Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop
Paterson, Plath and Dante
Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude
Patterns of Antonomasia in Shakespeare
Pauline Smith's Short Stories
Perspective, Vision and Memory: Mountain-Climbing in Literature
Perversions and Reversals of Childhood and Old Age in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
Peter Ackroyd's English Music
Peter Martyr and his Translator Richard Eden - Reading Culture in Translation
Philip Roth, Authorship and Death
Poe-tic Economy
Poe's Detective Dupin as Mythological Figure
Poetic (In-)Justice and the Law
Poetic Economy in English Haiku
Poetic Economy: Redundancy and Ellipsis
Poetic form and function in George Herbert's "Deniall" and Henry Vaughan's "Disorder and frailty"
Poetic Insertions in The Lord of the Rings
Poetic Justice
Poetics and Conversation
Poetry and Poeticity in Joyce, Baudelaire and Amichai
Poetry in Daniel Deronda
Poetry in Fiction
Poetry in Kipling's Short Fiction
Poetry in Poe
Polygeneric Narration in Atwood's Penelopiad
Pope's Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock
Possible Stories in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
Post-WWII Japanese-American Narrative: David Mura
Poverty Studies and Contemporary Indian Literature
Procreation, Communication and Incarnation in Sidney and Wordsworth
On Puzzling Shakespeare
Pynchon Takes the Fork in the Road
Quixotic Exceptionalism: Gulliver's Travels and Don Quixote de la Mancha
Re-Evaluating Alan Bennett
Re-Reading M.M. Mahood's Shakespeare's Wordplay
Re-Reading Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer and the American Myth of a Republic
Reading Yang Mu's The Skeptic
Reason in English Renaissance Humanism: Starkey, More and Ascham
Rebuilding Africa - A Myth and its Rewriting
Recent Responses to Shakespeare's Non-Dramatic Verse
Religion in King John
Religious Literary Style in Milton's Paradise Lost
Renegotiating Scottish Identity in the Pilgrim Narrative of William Lithgow
Restoration She-Tragedy: Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved
Resurrection as Blasphemy
Revisitings and Repetitions in Beckett's Later Works
Richard McCoy's The Rites of Knighthood
Richard Savage's The Wanderer: A Vision
Riddles of Procreation
Robert Frost's Conversational Style
Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour"
Sandra Billington's Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama
Self-Imposed Fetters: The Productivity of Formal and Thematic Restrictions
Sensory Perception and Literary Images in Edgar Allan Poe
Shakespeare and New Historicism
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens in Nabokov's Pale Fire
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus in an Irish Context
Shakespeare's Falstaff as Parody
Shakespeare's Lost Code: Tracing Mythology in Hamlet
Shakespeare's Ovid and Arthur Golding
Shakespeare's Scruple of Gold
Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises
Spenser and Ireland
Spenser as Prometheus: The Monstrous and the Idea of Poetic Creation
Spenser's Parody
Staging Dissent in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sujata Bhatt's "The Hole in the Wind"
Surprises in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night
T.H. White's The Once And Future King
Tennyson’s “Tithonus” and the Revision of Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
Textual, Contextual and Critical Surprises in "Désirée's Baby"
The American Adam in Mailer and Didion
The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby
The Arthurian Legend in Graham Swift's Last Orders
The Author's Name as an Object of Paronomasia
The Character of Lucius in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
The Conversationalists and Literature
The Country House Poem Revisited
The Economy of Literary Interpretation
The End of Editing Shakespeare
The Essays of Storm Janeson
The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan's Saturday
The Ghost Visitations of Lew Welch and the Art of Zen Failure
The Historical Context of John Ford's Plays
The Inhuman Non-Human in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin
The Last Moments of Hamlet
The Loss of the Artist's Agency
The Mysterious Genesis of Paradise Lost
The Myth of the Self in Whitman and Traherne
The Narrator of Conrad's Under Western Eyes
The Opening of All's Well That Ends Well
The Origins of the English Laureate Micro-Epic
The Pivotal Position of Henry V in the Rise and Fall of Shakespeare's Prose
The Place Revisited in T. S. Eliot
The Poetics of Alice Oswald's Memorial
The Poetics of Conversation in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
The Politics and Poetics of Robert Lowell
The Politics of Mucedorus
The Re-representation of African Identity in Kojo B. Laing's Fiction
The Reader in Fielding
The Reception History of C. S. Lewis's "A Preface to Paradise Lost"
The Republican Imagination in Eighteenth-Century America
The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
The Search for F. P. Greve/Grove
The Search for the Holy Grail
The Sepulchral City Revisited: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The Theological Background of Twelfth Night 4.2
The Titles of George Herbert's Poems
The Unworthy Servant in Milton's Sonnet 19
The Vertue of Spectacle in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
The Woman Taken in Adultery: A Literary Perspective on Christ’s Writing in John 8:1-12
Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence and Persephone
Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness
Timberlake Wertenbaker's New Anatomies
Tom Phillips’s A Humument (1966-)
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
Toothpicks in Literature
Tragedy and Trauerspiel: John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
Trauma, Writing and Simulated Orality in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Robert Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle
Understanding (through) Annotations
Unscrambling Surprises in Faulkner's Stories
Verse Satire: Its Form, Genre and Mode
Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry
W. B. Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter"
Walcott's Concept of Mythic History
Wallace Stevens and Mesoamerican Mythology
Was The Raigne of King Edward III a Compliment to Lord Hunsdon?
Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed and Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
What is the Dream in Midsummer Night's Dream?
Who was the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnet 86?
Wilfred Owen's "Strange Meeting"
Willi Erzgräber's Studies in Modernism
William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Godwin's Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
William Harmon's "1943"
Wodehouse and the Baroque
Wodehouse Linguist?
Wodehouse Parodist
Wordplay in William Carlos Williams's Poetry
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
Wordsworth's social critique and "The Baker's Cart"
Yeats and Indian Philosophy
Youth, Race and Nation in Colin MacInnes's Novels
Revisiting Halberstadt