CEA CRITICPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0028
Ayşe Naz Bulamur
{"title":"The Ambivalence of the Turban in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford","authors":"Ayşe Naz Bulamur","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The turban—a long scarf twisted and wrapped around the head—that is simultaneously identified as an Indian, French, and a Turkish headdress in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (1853) serves as a metaphor for the hybrid Victorian England, where cultural identities seem slippery and performative. The novel is structured around the young narrator Mary Smith's train journeys between her sick businessman father in the industrialized Drumble and her single elderly female friends in the neighboring village Cranford, where she used to live. The turban, which the narrator despises as an Islamic headgear, is a traveler like herself that moves hither and thither between East and West. It unsettles cultural distinctions by adorning the heads of an Indian servant, England's former queen Adelaide, French artists, and the English serjeant/magician Signor Brunoni.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"219 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46235055","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.2021.0032
R. S. Pressman
{"title":"Rebecca Rush's Kelroy and the Demise of Republican Idealism","authors":"R. S. Pressman","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In reaction to the nation's ever-increasing commercialization, the fiction of the time demonstrates a widespread fear that the Republic was in grave danger of losing its Revolutionary virtue: on the one hand, the ideal Republican citizen was to be enterprising, advancing the economy being essential to its welfare; on the other hand, that same citizen was to be unflinchingly willing to place society before self and family. For the supporters of Republican ideology, there was no contradiction, for that ideal society would balance the egoistic and the altruistic, the private and the public, because the public would always take precedence, even while the private would always work for the public good. But that virtue appeared more threatened than ever, such that novelists had to work harder to assure that virtue prevailed.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"269 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49106397","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.2021.0024
José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas
{"title":"Voyeurism and Negligence in Flannery O'Connor's \"The River\"","authors":"José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Throughout \"The River,\" the reader encounters characters who are voyeuristic and others who are negligent. These two concepts (or qualities) are usually discussed in relation to sociological manifestations of human culture rather than literature. During the last decades, voyeurism has been largely explored in studies about television and film, which place the spectator in the role of a witness who only confronts—but does not intervene in—a scene. With \"The River,\" O'Connor's voyeuristic characters are not innocent witnesses; rather, their presence is featured as triggering the macabre results of the action.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"285 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43187313","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.2021.0031
Donghee Om
{"title":"\"The fire that lights those big black eyes of his is not an easy fire\": (Ir)rationalizing Blackness in Armadale and The Guilty River","authors":"Donghee Om","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As texts that unconventionally feature mixed-race characters as protagonists, Armadale and The Guilty River collectively interrogate the pervasive structure of racial binarism and question the assumption that blackness is a fixed racial essence. In that way, these texts propose an alternate perspective on the reading of the English social landscape, articulating a belief that \"all scenery … derives a splendor not its own\" and that the \"splendor\" of the British Empire is neither a pre-existing essence nor a standard of comparison, but a manifestation of the ever-fluctuating \"interfusions\" of white and nonwhite Britons of multiple racial and cultural backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"255 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43498078","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.2021.0030
M. Ghasemi
{"title":"Gender and Work in Lauri Lemberg's St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins' Below Rollstone Hill","authors":"M. Ghasemi","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:St. Croix Avenue and Below Rollstone Hill portray a number of social, political and economic push factors that motivate some Finns to leave their homeland at the turn of the twentieth century. These historical fictions draw on the Finnish immigrant characters' success and/or failure in cultural and structural assimilation and incorporation into their host society. The novels also deal with a number of problems that some Finnish immigrant characters and their children face in their new environment and represent the race, class and gender inequities present in the US society.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"241 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49268957","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 : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0021
Matt Seymour
{"title":"Rethinking Argumentative Writing: Moving Beyond Teaching Structure to Engage Students in Critical Conversations","authors":"Matt Seymour","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The issue of teaching form over content in writing instruction is one that scholars have been discussing for years. Historically, secondary educators in the U.S. have tended to emphasize teaching writing structure and made the ideational aspects of writing secondary to issues of form. Over the past 20 years, scholars from multiple disciplines such as rhetoric, education, and literacy have argued against the teaching of preset and replicable structures in favor of a more contextualized approach to writing. Despite the push for content over form by many scholars and teacher educators, an emphasis on form remains prevalent at the secondary level, especially when it comes to the teaching of argumentative writing. Given the persistence of the teaching of structure at the secondary level, an approach students bring with them to the post-secondary classroom, scholarly conversations would do well to consider the systemic issues that incentivize secondary teachers to privilege structure and form in their teaching because research has consistently found an emphasis on teaching structure insufficiently promotes students' growth in writing.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"195 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48744054","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 : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0015
Kristin Czarnecki
{"title":"\"Books Continue Each Other\": A Room of One's Own in Barbara Pym's Jane and Prudence","authors":"Kristin Czarnecki","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Jane and Prudence, Pym not only presents female characters possessing stores of poetry in their minds but also takes up issues vital to the time, such as the conditions necessary for women to write, changing gender roles, and tenaciously held narrow expectations for women—subjects under scrutiny in A Room of One's Own. Recognizing the dynamic between these texts, I heed Erica Delsandro's call to understand \"modernist women writers [as] nodes in the network of modernism, conduits and creators\" (6, original emphasis). In looking to A Room of One's Own as a conduit for her own writing, Pym reaffirmed Woolf's findings and also afforded fresh insights into women's lives and literature.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"127 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45772582","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 : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0016
Kevin J. Gardner
{"title":"Jonathan Swift and the Cartesian Cyborg: The Possibilities and Limits of Posthumanism","authors":"Kevin J. Gardner","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Exploring Swift's satire through the lens of posthumanism provides a vital perspective on one of his key articulations of human failure: that errors in modern thinking can be traced to the mechanistic philosophy of Descartes, in particular to his notion of the body as machine, even if this body is of divine construction and to which a rational soul has been united…. Because this idea runs through forty years of Swift's oeuvre, I have opted in this essay to treat his texts in non-chronological fashion, aiming to develop a deeper understanding of Swift's hostility to Descartes and simultaneously to demonstrate the rich possibilities for new interpretations of Swift offered by posthumanism.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"146 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42797417","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 : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1353/cea.2021.0020
Carly Schnitzler
{"title":"Intimate Extension in Robert Creeley's Open Field","authors":"Carly Schnitzler","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On the fifth of June in 1950, Robert Creeley wrote a short letter to \"O,\" his mentor and compatriot poet Charles Olson, one of thousands of notes and letters to be eventually exchanged between them in their co-creation of an open field poetics…. Creeley laments the oversaturation of the term \"form\" with too many definitions—in this case, the conflation of W. H. Auden's \"technical wonder\" with his \"form.\" \"Form,\" Creeley says, \"has now become so useless a term/that I blush to use it.\" What follows is his attempt to remake the term into something useful, though we can still see him blushing in his proposal of multiple definitions: \"To make it clear: that form is never more than an extension of content. An enacted or possible 'stasis' for thought. Means to.\"","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"187 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46937433","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}