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University of Toronto Quarterly - Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2013 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w07013l66246/
This issue contains:
Dante’s Hermeneutic Complicity in Violence and Fraud in Inferno IX–XVII
William Franke
Self-interpretation is made manifest as a crucial structuring principle of the Inferno in the segment of the poem that begins with Dante’s entry into the city of Dis. This transition directly involves the reader as interpreter by means of the poem’s explicit addresses to the reader. The self-deceptions manifest in the souls Dante encounters take on violent and then fraudulent forms in the seventh and eighth circles respectively. By his interpretive acts as poet, Dante actually participates in this violence and fraud. He makes himself complicit in what he condemns. He is not merely an observer from on high but descends into his own sinful self through acts that involve the author and, behind him, the reader too as interpreters. Dante constantly highlights how it is we ourselves who are secretly at risk in the sins we interpret as readers, for the sins punished in hell are presented as fundamentally sins of self-interpretation.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w2774145nt3127pl/?p=8b551e4982244707b397ff96d49e11f0&pi=0
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.82.1.1
The ‘Supremest of Yankee Critics’: Harold Stearns, the Young Intellectuals, and America’s Discontents
Adam Muller
This article works to shed light on Harold Stearns’s (1891–1943) thinking about Americans’ struggle for authentic modes of creative and critical self-expression in an environment he and others perceived as generally inimical to that struggle. It attempts to convey some sense of the contribution to American art and culture made by Stearns’s early and most influential work, the essays collected in America and the Young Intellectual (1921), and traces its relationship to the cultural criticism produced by other noteworthy intellectuals in the twilight of the Progressive Era. Along the way, it shows how Stearns both reflected and contributed to the view of America held by the extraordinary generation of writers and intellectuals responsible for shaping American cultural identity during and after the interwar years.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/xr671627h500u3h1/?p=8b551e4982244707b397ff96d49e11f0&pi=1
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.82.1.20
From 1727 Bedford Street to 1839 Wylie Avenue: Home in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle
Anissa Janine Wardi
August Wilson had a fraught relationship to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the city of his birth, yet in his literary imagination he returned again and again to his hometown, setting nine out of the ten plays in the neighbourhood of the Hill District. For Wilson, home is collapsed with exile, and such a schism – the pull toward, and the problems of, claiming a home – is manifest throughout his dramaturgy in the repeated tropes of deeds, property, land, and fences, which find particular resonance in Radio Golf, a play he was finishing in the final weeks of his life. Wilson’s dramatic vision of home, which he relentlessly probed throughout his career, pivots on the axis of displacement. This article maintains that, in Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, the gentrification of the Hill District (which was the result of a national urban renewal project) and urban migration are metonyms of the African diaspora, the initial and most devastating breach of home.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/e71q1v7596121107/?p=8b551e4982244707b397ff96d49e11f0&pi=2
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.82.1.44
The Space of Poetry: Inhabiting Form in the Ghazal
David Ward
It is easy to use metaphors of structure (scaffolding, skeletons, architecture) when discussing poetic form. This essay takes that impulse seriously in an attempt to understand how prosodic form affects not poetry in general or poems in specific but the imagination of the reader or writer who engages with it. Cross-pollinating Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space with Agha Shahid Ali’s ghazals, this essay studies the ways in which rhyme, refrain, couplets, and the inclusion of the author in the poem itself might affect an inhabiting imagination. Just as Bachelard complicates the idea of houses as mere containers, so too this essay finds a dynamic relationship between external poetic structures and the internal inhabitant.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/eq08916021588385/?p=8b551e4982244707b397ff96d49e11f0&pi=3
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.82.1.62
Why It Matters: The Value of Literature as Object of Inquiry in Qualitative Research
Robert Nathan
Literature is often excluded from the realm of social science, even by qualitatively minded scholars. While research drawing on non-fiction documents, such as a historian might undertake, is usually lent legitimacy and seriousness, many view research in literature as an artistic domain best left to literary scholars. Novels, however, provide unique insights into important social questions, and social scientists cannot afford to ignore them. Furthermore, the distinctions between novels and social scientific works are ambiguous, and these domains share a great deal in both form and aim. This sharing cuts both ways, with novelists offering social insights comparable to those of the anthropologist or historian and the social scientist borrowing literary devices for the elaboration of his or her ideas.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/wgr04wl70178332u/?p=8b551e4982244707b397ff96d49e11f0&pi=4
DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.82.1.72
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