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University of Toronto Quarterly
Volume 81, Number 2, Spring 2012
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w704611635t5/
This issue contains:
Eighteenth-Century Literary Precursors of Mrs Warren’s Profession
Brad Kent
Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession is almost solely discussed in terms of its portrayal of prostitution in relation to the theatre of its day. In this light, his work is defined as a decisive break with what came before it. But Shaw warned against this tendency to label literature that challenges contemporary norms as necessarily original. Instead, he called on his audience to recognize the cyclical nature of literature, noting that what is new to one generation is most often merely that which was discarded by the previous one. By adopting the longer view, this essay examines Mrs Warren’s Profession alongside some well-known prostitute narratives of the eighteenth century to argue that while Shaw might have overturned one tradition, there is much to suggest that he concurrently tapped into another.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v2503l174643188k/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=0
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.187
Le motif du loup chez Rachilde: la règle de l’interdit
François Ouellet
Cet article propose une lecture d’un roman de Rachilde, Le meneur de louves (1905), où le motif du loup sert à mettre en valeur la prédominance d’un imaginaire régulé par l’interdit de l’inceste. À l’encontre de la critique féministe pour laquelle Rachilde est une auteure qui prescrit un discours amoureux qui pervertit les rapports traditionnels entre l’homme et la femme, il s’agit ici de faire voir comment la volonté de « refaire l’amour » des personnages est imposée par un interdit qui dicte au texte sa lettre. Ce qui écrit le texte, c’est la règle de l’interdit, le discours féministe n’étant alors que le reflet idéologique d’un effet de texte que Rachilde n’a jamais voulu ni cautionné.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v7j7871388n120h8/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=1
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.208
Impossible Alternatives to Tom Sawyer’s Delusions in Twain and Adorno
Christopher D. Morris
Theodor Adorno’s adaptation of Tom Sawyer depicts it as a precursor to his negative dialectic, which Derrida saw as resembling deconstruction in attempting to articulate the ‘possibility of the impossible.’ The lack of any authentic alternative to Tom, the epitome of America’s delusion, is allegorized when Joe is first posited as ‘wholly other,’ then contained by the hegemonic, referential discourses of St Petersburg. Adorno similarly makes clear that Huck, like Joe, can’t resist such assimilation. This reading of Tom Sawyer is consistent with Twain’s tall tales and travel writings. Unsuccessful efforts to imagine an alternative to Tom’s world also characterize the collusive voice of Twain the narrator of Tom Sawyer.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v15w532729026210/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=2
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.219
Pure Persuasion: Metarhetorical Motives in Kenneth Burke’s Towards a Better Life
Jonathan Butler
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v7l3682l12677816/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=3
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.246
On Judging with Care and the Responsibility of an Heir: Reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
Lydia Efthymia Roupakia
How easy is it for Western readers of contemporary Native literature to suspend their goal-oriented consciousness when approaching Native ‘otherness’? Existing critical interpretations of Eden Robinson’s novel Monkey Beach attest to the ways in which cultural difference elicits politicized reading practices and romanticizing hermeneutical gestures. Yet Monkey Beach alerts the attentive reader against the pitfalls of approaching difference through inherited interpretative templates. Eden Robinson refuses to enlist her protagonist as a player in the politicized ‘games’ of cultural authenticity, postcolonial resistance, or cultural hybridity. Rather, the novel invites the reader to reflect on the complexities of ‘judging with care,’ a term Selma Sevenhuijsen uses to describe a situated form of postmodern feminist ethics in her study Citizenship and the Ethics of Care. More precisely, Monkey Beach asks the reader to do justice to the novel’s formal elaboration of responsible judgement as a process that involves both ‘an active engagement’ with the other and ‘a letting-go’ in the face of ‘Otherness’ (Attridge 130).
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v5287277gg7702k4/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=5
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.279
Mending the Acadian Diaspora: Strategies of Remediation in Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005)
Laurence M. Porter
Dickner’s brilliant, witty first novel finds inspiration in the parody and paradox of the OULIPO writers, Jorge Luís Borges, and Michel Tournier – particularly the latter’s ingenious exploitation of the archetype of inversion. Nikolski’s thematic deep structure, however, derives from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and from the stories of Jonah (Jonas, in French) and Noah in the Book of Genesis. Through the mediation of these intertexts, Dickner reflects on the tragic diaspora of the Acadians starting with their violent deportation from the Maritime Provinces in 1755. Three contemporary Acadian protagonists (one may be descended from Caribbean pirates, one is half Native American, and one half Québécois) separately attempt to reconstitute their lost culture. They transcend their initial failures, forsaking paralyzing nostalgia to join new, multiethnic communities of marginalized peoples. Thus Dickner updates the reparative efforts of Longfellow’s Evangeline and Antonine Maillet’s folk epic Pélagie la charrette, with his thoroughly urban, postmodern sensibility.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v3808231v5225322/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=6
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.297
Photographie et récit de filiation: L’Africain de J. M. G. Le Clézio
Béatrice Vernier-Larochette
Dans le court récit intitulé L’Africain, J. M. G. Le Clézio évoque son père en alliant souvenirs personnels et photos prises par ce médecin en Afrique dans les années 1930. Le Clézio a cependant délibérément soustrait au public l’image paternelle puisqu’elle n’apparaît pas sur les clichés insérés au récit. Cette étude vise à saisir le rôle de la photographie dans cet écrit en tant que « récit de filiation » où l’auteur retrace la vie d’un ascendant décédé resté énigmatique. Nous montrons que les photos commentées et exposées soutiennent l’entreprise de (re)découverte du père, le réhabilitent par rapport à son travail de médecin pionnier durant la colonisation. L’absence de représentation paternelle a pour objectif d’insister sur l’importance de l’Afrique dans la vie de cet homme et dans celle de Le Clézio puisque ce dernier découvre que c’est ce continent qui le relie à cet homme.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n3np31986p158375/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=4
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.265
Israel in Early Modern England
Paul Stevens
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/v7843376082155l3/?p=ef312d77a1904309a147c2afc5774d0b&pi=7
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.313
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