{"title":"Frank O’Hara and the End of Bureaucracy","authors":"Jason Lagapa","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2019.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Frank O’Hara wrote his poems in an American work environment that was, at mid-century, becoming increasingly defined by bureaucracy and its corresponding ethos of organization, efficiency, administration, and paperwork. O’Hara’s reaction to bureaucracy was undoubtedly an ambivalent one: though O’Hara’s work periodically includes signs that he found administrative routine and structure appealing, he was ultimately not able to ignore what he perceived as dehumanizing and even perilous about bureaucratic norms in the cold war era. To counter the deleterious nature of a highly administered society, O’Hara sought to explore the utopian purpose of his writing, wherein poetry might offer an alternative to bureaucratic schedules and temporality, the stultifying tedium of office work, and the bellicose mentality of the cold war period.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45076018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Faulkner, Cleanth Brooks, and the Living-Dead Reader of New Critical Theory","authors":"Yael Segalovitz","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article challenges the assumption that close reading is an apolitical and ahistorical practice by reading Cleanth Brooks’ The Well Wrought Urn alongside his seminal work on William Faulkner. These texts expose the crucial role “attention” plays in the formation of close reading, and demonstrate that at the heart of American New Criticism there lies a notion of reading that assumes a unique capacity for animating otherness. Brooks labors to cultivate in his reader an attentiveness so profound as to lead to self-deadening. However, this self-erasure is not a solely negative process in his mind, since it allows the reader an intimate encounter with the literary text as alterity. This New Critical model of reading unexpectedly corresponds to Jacques Derrida’s hauntological ethics. By bringing into dialogue Brooks, Faulkner, and Derrida, this essay offers a new view of the values that underlie close reading as a contemporary method of literary interpretation.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"49 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48472408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Body of Space in Charles Olson’s Call Me Ishmael","authors":"Joseph R. Shafer","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2019.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Charles Olson’s Call Me Ishmael (1947) redirected Melville scholarship, American Studies, and American poetry. Known for historicizing the whaling industry as the American frontier, by exploring Melville’s experience and poetics of “Space,” criticism has largely read Olson’s seminal concept of space negatively, as an empty, receptive and feminized field which Olson’s mythology, geography, and discourse expands over, projects and inscribes; however, the material, corporeal, insurgent form of space found lacking in this context is precisely the topos underlining Call Me Ishmael. By introducing the body of space in Call Me Ishmael, through the book’s re-narrativization of space, corresponding typographical or haptographical spacing, and concurrent poetry, this article discloses an aesthetics of fleshly space surfacing within and against the symbolic economy of Call Me Ishmael.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"111 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45847473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Dean Howells, Thing Theory, and the Hazards of Speculative Realism","authors":"Craig Carey","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reconsiders William Dean Howells and his realist novel A Hazard of New Fortunes in light of the recent speculative turn in philosophy. Drawing on developments in thing theory and speculative realism, the essay uses Howells’s novel as a case study to reflect on the fortunes and hazards of speculative realism as a contemporary influence on literary criticism. While skeptical of its break with language and consciousness, it finds in speculative realism a fresh approach to dramatizing how the thingness of literary works often exceeds representation and gives form to speculative thought more hospitable to things and their involvements. Inspired by the speculative turn, the essay works to navigate the contemporary hazards of thinking things, while still preserving what William James once celebrated as the “active element in all consciousness.”","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"109 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49180924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Anachronism: Jeffrey Brace and the Racialized Republic","authors":"Ben Bascom","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the memoir of Jeffrey Brace (1742–1827), a black Revolutionary War veteran and emancipated slave who settled in Vermont soon after his manumission in the 1780s. Focusing on Brace’s memoir The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace (1810)—an anti-slavery narrative transcribed by a white lawyer—I imagine the text being in conversation with ideas central to the ideological formation of the early United States. While in Vermont, Brace tried to live as a republican citizen, but he experienced very specific barriers: his children were forced into indentured servitude and his wife subjected to violence while tapping trees for maple sugar. Brace articulates a model of republican belonging that rhetorically and materially stages his freedom. Brace’s text offers possible alternatives to reframing the gendered implications of nineteenth-century African American life narratives.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"23 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2019.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42611912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Medical Women in Nineteenth-Century American Literature","authors":"Margaret Jay Jessee","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2018.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2018.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This introduction argues that the woman physician in American literature inhabits a liminal space, one that is reflected in the generic liminality formally used to contain her. I argue that the essays contained in this journal's issue, while widely divergent in their focus, scope, and topic, all share a concern with how literary genre functions as a space for liminal, transgressive medical women. This special issue, then, details examples of the way transgressive subjects register the transgressive generic spaces seeking to represent them.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"74 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2018.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47603098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Should Female Physicians Treat Male Patients?\": Doctoring the Other Sex, \"Love Sickness,\" and Representations of the American Woman Doctor, 1850–1900","authors":"F.D.A. Wegener","doi":"10.1353/ARQ.2018.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARQ.2018.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:One urgent reason for the widespread opposition to the medical education and training of American women in the second half of the nineteenth century was the fact that women certified as doctors would be eligible to treat patients of the other sex, examining their bodies in a manner that provoked accusations of indelicacy or impropriety. Yet many of the period's numerous woman-doctor fictions depict the protagonist favorably ministering to male patients. There also appeared, however, a series of texts in which the medical woman's skills are comically traduced, as an ailing man is treated by a young, attractive female physician whose manipulations arouse the kind of \"love sickness\" that only she is equipped to \"cure.\" Such disparaging images competed with richer, more nuanced representations of women doctoring male patients in shaping the cultural, social, and professional reception of the medical woman in the United States throughout the period.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"74 1","pages":"145 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARQ.2018.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43566397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}