CEA CRITICPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2022.0001
Darren J. Borg
{"title":"W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James, and the Modernist Aesthetic of The Moon and Sixpence","authors":"Darren J. Borg","doi":"10.1353/cea.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ultimately, Wilson condemns Maugham as \"a half-trashy novelist, who writes badly, but is patronized by half-serious readers, who do not care much about writing\" (731). Most of Wilson's objections concern Maugham's remarks in the introductory essays to his anthology Great Modern Reading (1943), in which Maugham mixes praise with criticism of James and others; however, the ambivalence about modernism that Wilson detects in Maugham's anthology runs throughout the novelist's critical writings. Moreover, this conflict that Maugham's critical work exhibits—essentially an aesthetic of anxiety about modernism and literary impressionism in particular—manifests itself particularly in the novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919). As this essay will demonstrate, the novel's plot displays the author's anxiety about style, and the novel as a whole represents the author's attempt to resolve this internal conflict and embrace a technique, both in theory and in practice, that supersedes the realism he naturally prefers.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"84 1","pages":"13 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41818797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2019.0023
{"title":"Field Report: News from the College English Association Regional Affiliates","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cea.2019.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2019.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cea.2019.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49136973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2022.0004
S. V. Ploeg
{"title":"A Thousand Acres of King Lear: Reading Shakespeare Through Smiley","authors":"S. V. Ploeg","doi":"10.1353/cea.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Smiley came to write this novel after noticing that critics uniformly censured the elder sisters, Goneril and Regan. Though Ginny, Rose, and Carolyn have their flaws, the novel is a case of literary revisionism that forces us away from great sympathy for their father. Smiley recognizes that the daughters are used up in the play, just as the land is, that they are resources that Lear wastes through pride or dementia. Obviously, Shakespeare isn't concerned with pesticides or hog farms, but Lear's abuse of natural resources is an awareness brought by Smiley that seems quite apt. She intimates that Shakespeare shows \"a dawning awareness\" of the use and potential abuse of the natural world, and that this constitutes an undercurrent running throughout the play.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"84 1","pages":"42 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41653241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2022.0005
Jie-ae Yu
{"title":"\"Vigour to sustain\": The Experience of Imprisonment and Stoic Principles in Lord Byron's The Lament of Tasso","authors":"Jie-ae Yu","doi":"10.1353/cea.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Tasso as an exemplary Stoic figure begins in his motivations. Whereas the biblical figures typically devote themselves entirely to God, Tasso concentrates on his own mental state, and the ways by which he does so leads straight to Byron's interest in Stoicism that surfaces in his letters, journals, and reading lists, composed since adolescence. This interest led Byron to adopt some of their key notions about, Thomas Rolleston writes, one's \"highest spiritual faculty and deepest sense of reason\" by which a suffering protagonist is able to maintain dignity (252). In one of his accounts composing \"Detached Thoughts,\" penned between 15 October 1821 and 18 May 1822, Byron is, Rolleston continues, interested in the \"Stoic vision\" of \"the supremacy of the human soul over the human body\" (23) referenced in both Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius (BLJ 9: 45). In the same journal, Byron reveals a firm belief in the perpetual nature of internal human working: \"Of the immortality of the Soul—it appears to me that there can be little doubt—if we attend for a moment to the action of Mind.—It is in perpetual activity\" (BLJ 9: 45). Byron perceives an intimate relationship between the constant \"action\" of the human mind and insoluble burdens of physical ordeals when understanding the two thinkers: \"the Stoics Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius call the present state 'a Soul which drags a Carcase'—a heavy chain to be sure, but all chains being material may be shaken off … that the Mind is eternal—seems as possible as that the body is not so\" (45).","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"84 1","pages":"50 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47574652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2022.0002
Hande Tekdemir
{"title":"Searching for the Famine Remnants in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South","authors":"Hande Tekdemir","doi":"10.1353/cea.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In North and South, the Irish are never part of a fully developed plot of their own. The Irish workers' actions, dialogues, and feelings are never clearly presented as a first-hand experience but mediated through third parties who talk about them and act in their name. Most notably, the starving Irish are almost invisible in the mob scene as well as in other scenes where they never appear in person. They are in the background, pushed literally and figurately to the remote corners of the mill and the narrative. Theirs is a double silencing by both the English factory owners and the English workers. Although their presence is in shadows and their voices are silenced in the narrative, these workers set the tone for the most climactic and critical moments of the novel.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"84 1","pages":"29 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46812787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2022.0003
Jeraldine R. Kraver
{"title":"Looking Backwards: The Powerful Presence of Precursors","authors":"Jeraldine R. Kraver","doi":"10.1353/cea.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"84 1","pages":"40 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48891110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0025
Robert Vaughan
{"title":"Poetry as Praxis: The Hermeneutical Circle of Allen Tate and Paul Ricoeur","authors":"Robert Vaughan","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Allen Tate's own memorial as a poet will always be \"Ode to the Confederate Dead,\" a portrait of a meditative persona who surrenders to a sterile \"circularity of soul.\" Regardless, Tate the critic's work continues to demonstrate that his own \"personal dilemma [was] perhaps not so exclusive,\" and that his \"practical solution\" does survive in a post-theory era (\"Narcissus\" 600). Just as the \"positive and … productive notion of distanciation\" underlies and animates Paul Ricoeur's most important works of later hermeneutical phenomenology, Tate's similar \"solution\" became the enduring theme of his criticism in the decades following the publication of his most famous poem. The hermeneutical circle, defined in different terms and in different generations by two like-minded critics, allows what Ricoeur calls \"the moment of possession and of enjoyment\" while maintaining that \"representation is always … at a distance\" (Freedom and Nature 96).","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"292 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45515978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0029
Jeraldine R. Kraver
{"title":"Looking Backwards: Poetry and the Pull of Past","authors":"Jeraldine R. Kraver","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The writer's past is something like his own skin: he's got it and can't really do very much about it. Bleaches, creams, and other beautifiers don't help very much; and he certainly can't shed it every spring--unlike the snake, unfortunately. Indeed, it would be madness to hope to do very much about his past, which would be something like crying over spilled milk. What is more important is what he is going to do with it.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"235 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44748205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CEA CRITICPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0027
R. Drake
{"title":"The Pieties of the Fiction Writer: The Writer and His Past","authors":"R. Drake","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"237 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44684746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}