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“The Coquette” or the Ambiguities: On the Fiction and the Reality of Independence in the New Republic
No full textIn The Coquette (1797), Hannah Foster creates the first female individualist in American literature, Eliza Wharton, but places her within the restrictive and punitive confines of a conventional seduction narrative. The heroine's covert manipulation of sexual double-standards emerges as an ill-fated, single-handed fight against larger socio-biological forces, and results in ruin and death. The rhetoric of renunciation in which Eliza's doubtful redemption narrative is couched barely disguises the innovative and disturbing quality of her story
“Silence – A Fable” di Edgar Allan Poe: La lotta fra scrittura del visibile e scrittura dell’udibile
No full textThere is no doubt that Poe's writing bears the traces of an excessive compulsion for repetition. The essay analyses "Silence," a short 'fable' written in 1833-35, in which the over-recurrence of repetition mirrors pain, anxiety, awe, and death by dramatizing the conflict between representational and metanarrative concerns. The split between the descriptive and the narrative modes is traced back to the opposition between sight and hearing—an opposition that results in near silence
The Drunken Scheherazade: Self-Reflection in Jack London’s “The Road,” “Martin Eden” and “ John Barleycorn”
No full textPoole's reading of the London works chosen for their autobiographical interest brings out a complex conflict: hard drinking encroaches more and more on London's workaholic writing, the obsessive 5,000 words a day. The nihilistic and pessimistic truths revealed in his alcoholic stupor give the lie to the false ideals and illusions, such as Socialism, he believes himself to be peddling in his writings. Paradoxically, these falsities, related to female nurture, are life-sustaining, whereas boozing, associated with male camaraderie, expresses a deep death-wish