The Southern Quarterly

The Southern Quarterly was originally published in 2000 by the University of Southern Mississippi. It has different subjects throughout its various different issues, including subjects such as: aspects of the Southern United States, United States history, and American Literature. In the description of the article itself, it analyzes Southern culture through literature, folklore, anthropology, and history (ebsco host). For example, one of the earlier articles that this journal publishes was titled “Negotiating boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers that Be” (Petry). This journal is still publishing its collection of articles to this day, with it publishes by season. So, it has Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues. This journal is located at the University of Southern Mississippi still, and has recently published its Winter 2019 journal. This journal can be very useful for English majors because it shows insight into how Southern culture works and how it has developed over time. It can also show a large degree of how Southern writers produce their material, and how the way that they write can vary from other writers in different parts of the United States. For example, one article that is published is titled “Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston” (Ellis et al.,). This just shows how this article not only reflects the culture in the South, but also the different methods in which it is written with.

With this journal, there are specific criteria that one must follow in order to be able to have their work published in this article. You must have an article that is based on solid documentation, that is seated in literary or critical theory, and that make and original and important contribution to the study of the American South. Articles are not allowed to exceed twenty to twenty-five double-spaced pages in length, along with all of the sources and documentation (The Southern Quarterly). These are the basic guidelines, and as the articles are submitted, they must go through the editorial board. It also states that if you are submitting something and it does not get published, then it becomes the property of The Southern Quarterly. The editorial board consists of many people, with the main editor being Kate Cochran. This journal’s main focus is to shine a light on what Southern culture is, was, and what is projected to happen in the South in the future. This journal is currently calling for people to submit their own original articles for the Spring/Summer of 2020, the Fall of 2020, and the Winter of 2021. These articles must go along with the pre-selected theme of each seasonal publication, and must make sense to the topic that is shown.

While this journal looks into the different issues and topics in the South, its articles range widely from publication to publication. In the Fall of 2015, for example, the articles focused mainly on death. There was one article in this particular publication titled “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New South” (Hayes). This article explores the new looks into the various ways that the South perceives myths about death, and how they cope with it in today’s world and society. In another article stemming from the same published issue, titled as “Lay It All on the Table: Death in the American South,” this article touches on how older traditions around death flow into the new age (Smith). This article focused on touching on how old traditions correlate still with newer traditions in the South, and can still be seen in morphed ways. In another issue that was published in 2003, however, the articles were centered on a person rather than an idea. This particular issue focused on Richard Marius. They ranged from an analysis of the man himself, to a glimpse and discussion about how he lived his life. One of the works written about him, titled “Re-visioning the overland trail: Richard Marius’s bound for the promised land,” covers the analysis of Marius’s specific works and looks into how they can be interpreted (Carroll). But the attitudes of these articles do change, with each one being unique on its own outlook of Marius and his life and works. In another article, “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as a Biographer of Thomas Moore,” this article goes into the ways at which Marius wrote about the life of another writer (Bowman). Whereas one article was an analysis and break down of Marius’s works, this article was more of a critique.

Overall, The Southern Quarterly looks to delve into the many different aspects of the South, in many different terms. This journal can be very beneficial to English majors who are looking for information, writings, or specific analyses over the different parts of the South, and how they contribute to literature today. This journal solely looks at the different types of Southern literature and history, and tries to bring it to a more modern groups of people. This journal can be accessed by many databases and libraries, and can also be obtained with a subscription, which costs a fee. Overall, this journal is beneficial because it gives readers a newfound look into Southern culture and shines a light that might melt away all of the stigmas that the South faces today.

Works Cited

Bowman, Glen. “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as Biographer of                     Thomas More.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 78-91. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222245383?accountid=28833.

Carroll, Viera. “Re-Visioning the Overland Trail: Richard Marius’s Bound for the Promised         Land.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 52-67. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222260514?accountid=28833

“Details for The Southern Quarterly,” EBSCOhost, EBSCO Industries, 2019.             http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/ehost/command/detail?vid=0&sid=08a3b4c8-c571-4c24-993b-          1657436eff03%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#jid=4LD&db=hft

Ellis, Clifton; Haney, Gina. “Visual Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston.” ProQuest, Vol. 44, Iss. 4, (Summer 2007), https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222264458/95B6382524E74A63PQ/4?accountid=28833

Hayes, John. “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New   South.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 105-120,262. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326149?accountid=28833.

O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Cliffs Notes, 2005. Web.                

Petry, Alice Hall. “Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers    that Be.” ProQuest, Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Fall 2002),  https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222268517/EB22E707FED450DPQ/13?accountid=28833

Smith, Abigail L. “Lay it all on the Table: Death in the American South.” Southern Quarterly,     vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 72-86,263. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326056?accountid=28833.

“The Southern Quarterly.” The Southern Quarterly | The University of Southern Mississippi,        University of Southern Mississippi , https://aquila.usm.edu/soq/

University of Southern Mississippi. College of Arts Letters. The Southern Quarterly. (1962).        Web.

50minutes.com. Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find                  Your Dream Job. 50 Minutes, 2015. Web.

College Literature

Many college professors might be searching for the perfect resource to learn new material, or a different view through various lenses. As time goes on, scholars begin to look at different works through various lens that are fueled by things happening throughout time, and knowledge from other scholars. A fantastic place to find reliable research, and information, is the academic journal, College Literature. It’s published by John Hopkins University Press from 1974- present. It is published in a series of quarterly magazines that breaks down different works from authors, both past and present, and brings a fresh look to those various works.  Throughout its articles scholar’s breakdown different works from authors, and begin to process them in different ways. The works chosen to be broken apart vary, but can be anything from works of poetry in the 19^thcentury, analyzing the Odyssey in a new light, or many current works that have been published in the 21^stcentury. With the variety in topics covered it makes finding useful information about works easily accessible for scholars. 

Due to the large amount of literature that is covered in the collegiate setting, this magazine covers a wide variety of things. One of the topics covered is literary theory and criticism. Articles such as “From many million heart-throbs”: Walt Whitman’s Communitarian Sentimentalisms” (Schöberlein), and “Entropic imagination in Poe’s The masque of the red death.” (Zapf). It covers current topics on American literature today such as: “Order Out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon”, Jr (Ruiz- Velasco), and “The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s “Fire in Beulah” (Hada). It has some articles that look at older American literature through new lens such as: “Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales” (Lam), and “Frankenstein, Paradise Lost, and “the majesty of goodness”(Ping). Some other topics discussed in this journal are third word literature, European literature, and many other branches of literature taught in classrooms around the world. This journal captures interesting topics from all over the world, and throughout time for scholars to be able to utilize. This journal can be used as a vital resource for anyone who wants to learn more about various literature. 

 One thing that makes this resource valuable for scholars is that all the articles are peer reviewed. Over the past 40 plus years the editors, and the editor boards, for the magazine have changed, however, the current editor is Carolyn Sorisio, West Chester University. Sorisio has a Ph.D. from Temple University, and is currently a professor at West Chester University.  She specializes in 19^th century American Literature with an emphasis on gender and race. Sorisio has several published articles in various academic magazines, and continues to do research along with teaching various literature classes. She also won various awards for her writing which include, 2015 Susan Koppleman Award from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. She won that prize for “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights” [coedited with Cari M. Carpenter (Univ. of Nebraska P, 2015). Associate editors, review editors, and various other editors are professors who are actively continuing their research, and are well established researchers in their own right. 

Tennessee Tech students have access to this journal through the libraries various databases. Issues from 1999 to 2019 are able to be viewed by current students and faculty are housed in the EBSCOhost data base. Other data bases carry articles as well, but EBSCOhost houses the largest variety of the articles. Some articles are able to be viewed on the publisher’s website, but usually it is only two articles per edition. The best way to view the information is to subscribe to the magazine, or have access through the school database. 

 Work Cited

“College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies | JHU Press.

“English.” Carolyn Sorisio – West Chester University, 2018.

Hada, Kenneth. “The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s ‘Fire in Beulah’.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007.

Lam, Joshua. “Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2018.

Ping, Tang Soo. “Frankstein, Paradise Lost, and ‘the Majesty of Goodness’.Ta.” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989.

Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Order Out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon, Jr.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007.

Schöberlein, Stefan. “‘From Many Million Heart-Throbs’: Walt Whitman’s Communitarian Sentimentalisms.” College Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, 2018.

Zapf, Hubert. “Entropic Imagination in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989.

Renaissance Drama

Renaissance Drama was first published in 1956 under University of Chicago Press. The journal’s goal is to investigate the significance of Renaissance drama by examining interpretations of plays, theater, and performance. There’s a new volume out every year, and it circulates about five hundred of them. In order to be featured in the journal, the suggested length of an article is 6,000-12,000 words, the editing style must be Chicago, and have to submit at least three copies. 

In Volume VIII, which was published in 1965, one of the articles included was “The Wit-Interludes and the Form of Pre-Shakespearan: Romantic Comedy” by Werner Habicht. He explores contrasts of morality and love that were featured in plays before Shakespeare came into the scene. Habicht speaks of situations that revolve around moral play, “temptation, deneration, repentance, regeneration,” (Habicht pg. 79). Habicht goes on to explain how these are typically dramatized as an archetype of morality. In the same volume, there was an article called “Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play” by Dieter Mehl. In his article, he discusses how the actors on stage are having to perform separately of their characters at some points in a play. An example he gave was how sometimes an actor on stage would divulge from the play to provide comic relief after a heavily serious scene. 

In Volume XXVII, which was published in 1996, an article included was “Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: What Do Women Want to Write?” by Meredith Skura. Her article focused more on Elizabeth Cary and her part in with History. She speaks of the claim that Cary actually wrote History instead of Falkland. Another article was “Corneille’s City Comedy: Courtship and Consumption in Early Modern Paris” By Karen Newman. In Newman’s article, she discusses Corneille’s comedies as well as how courtship was portrayed in plays. Newman speaks of how women were always portrayed as “the object of a lover’s passion.”

In Volume XL, published in 2012, it featured an article called “Recent Trends in Editing of Renaissance Drama Anthologies” by David Bevington. He discussed the anthology of Renaissance drama in England and how it had begun. Bevington discusses how Renaissance drama was introduced to more people because of this journal, and how in the earlier versions it was typically filled with similar articles. The last article was “Defining the Proper Members of the Renaissance Theatrical Community” by Mary Bly. Her article was about how playwrights would tend to “borrow” ideas during the sixteenth and seventeenth century including Shakespeare. 

The Renaissance Drama journal has changed over the years by including more topics that fall under Renaissance drama. When the journal first started out, the articles included were always about Pre-Shakespeare and plenty of the same playwrights. Whereas now, the journal includes discussions over ideas and topics that were seen in plays as well as discussions about a female playwright. This journal includes a great deal of articles about Renaissance drama that anyone wanting to learn more or a student has to write a paper over Renaissance drama they can find useful information in it. If a student writes a paper over Renaissance drama, they can easily access this journal by going to the campus library and checking the journal out. 

Works Cited

Bevington, David. “Recent Trends in Editing of Renaissance Drama Anthologies”. Renaissance Drama New Series 40 edited by Jeffrey Masten and William N. West. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2012. 

Bly, Mary.“Defining the Proper Members of the Renaissance Theatrical Community”. Renaissance Drama New Series 40 edited by Jeffrey Masten and William N. West. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2012. 

Habicht, Werner. “The Wit-Interludes and the Form of Pre-Shakespearan: Romantic Comedy”. Renaissance Drama Volume VIII edited by S. Schoenbaum. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1965. 

Mehl, Dieter. “Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play”. Renaissance Drama Volume VIII edited by S. Schoenbaum. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1965. 

Newman, Karen. “Corneille’s City Comedy: Courtship and Consumption in Early Modern Paris”. Renaissance Drama Volume XXVII edited by Mary Beth Rose. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1998. 

Skura, Meredith. “Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: What Do Women Want to Write?”. Renaissance Drama Volume XXVII edited by Mary Beth Rose. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1998. 

Diacritics

Diacritics is a scholarly, quarterly, journal that lends itself to “no particular school of thought”, instead choosing to present as a collection of the intelligentsia with contributions from both national and international scholars and professors, all of whom may “enter a forum for thinking about contradictions without resolutions (Overview) . It was founded in 1971 as a branch of Cornell University’s Romantic Studies department. Since then, it has gone on to become published by John Hopkins University although the majority of the editorial board is  made up of a majority of Cornell professors. 

Within an issue of Diacritics, articles range anywhere from book reviews, to literary criticism, to criticism of fellow scholars and artists, often with no correlation existing between any of the articles. For example, in the Fall 1971 issue, a book review titled “Gabriel Garcia and the Lost Art of Storytelling” by Ricardo Gullon appeared alongside a response to personal criticism titled “Monstrosities In Criticism” by Michel Foucault. Both authors were professors at their respective Universities, with Gullon being credited as the “Professor of Spanish/Spanish American Literature at the University of Texas”(Gullon), and Foucault was a professor at the Collége de France. Additionally, both articles were written in Chicago Style format, as is required by the Diacritics submission form. However, that is where the similarities end as both articles differ completely in subject matter and length. The wide variation of topics continued on through the 1990s with the only difference coming with the addition of footnotes to articles and a longer length of paper. Beginning in the 21st century, however, issues began to adopt a common theme along with reducing the number of articles. An example of this is the Winter 2018 issue titled “Collective Temporalities: Decolonial Perspectives. 

With about 1600 issues in circulation, most articles in the 21st century issues are formatted similarly as directed by the Diacritics submission file which states that articles “must not exceed 12,000 words, must be written in Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, with endnotes and a bibliography” (Author Guidelines). An additional requirement is that the work you submit must be original and unique to Diacritics as they reject articles that have already been published by other scholarly journals. On average, 80 articles are submitted annually with only 26 of those actually being chosen for publication. 

Students at Tennessee Tech University can access any 20th century issue of Diacritics for free through their website. To access articles written in the 21st century, students have to go to the research database ProQuest and are given free access through the university. Diacritics is a useful resource in that it offers alternative theories and criticisms posed by a variety of knowledgeable scholars, however, it should be noted that most articles are founded solely on one author’s individual thought process that may not reflect the consensus of a general academia on any given topic.

Works Cited

“Author Guidelines.” Author Guidelines | JHU Press, www.press.jhu.edu/journals/diacritics/author-guidelines.

Gullon, Ricardo. “Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the Lost Art of Storytelling.” Diacritics, vol. 1, no. 1, 1971, pp. 27–32. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/464556.

“Overview.” Diacritics, John Hopkins University, 21 Aug. 2019, http://www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/overview/.

ImageTexT

Image TexT is an open access online journal for comic studies recognized in the MLA International Bibliography in 2005, and last updated in 2016. Image TexT’s scope is the scholarship of comic books, comic strips, and cartoons to better popularize analysis of the medium. The format of the journal’s contents are scholarly reviews and articles. Started in 2004 by the late Donald Ault and published by the University of Florida, specifically the English department. The editing board is headed by Editor Anatasia Ulanowicz and Associate Editor Terry Harpold, both in the University of Florida. Ulanowicz is an associate professor teaching children’s literature, trauma theory, and the Bible as literature and in 2015 was awarded the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Terry Harpold is an Associate Professor of English, Film and Media Studies and is one of the co-editors of Collectionner l’Extraordinaire, sonder l’Ailleurs. Essais sur Jules Verne en l’honneur de Jean-Michel Margot and Science, Literature and Imagination—Jules Verne and the Adventure of Knowledge. He also publishes essays within other Journals too. Other editors come from a variety of Universities from UCLA, Singapore, Wales Aberystwyth, Central St. Martin’s college just to name a few.

            The content’s topics range from historical or cultural significance across the world, to concepts showcased in American Super-Hero Comics, such as Watchmen, and Japanese Manga, along the lines of Akira, even any media that has a visual and literary overlap. They used to publish an issue of their journal twice a year, as the MLA Bibliography has said. One during the spring and another during the winter. However, in 2006 on their third volume they bumped up the number to 3, and some volumes include 4 issues without a statement to which season they are released.

            The submissions must be in MLA format with a 10,000 word maximum, nothing listed for a minimum, and a 40 to 80 word bio. There are 25 article submissions a year, but they only publish 12 articles opposed to how the journal submits and publishes 13 reviews. Statistically, articles have a 48% chance of being published while reviews have a theoretical 100% chance of publication. Theoretical because more than likely they would turn down a review of low quality. Any images used in submissions are required to be clean and as high quality as possible. All submissions are peer reviewed and read by two editors with a blind submission policy and are returned to the author if rejected. The time between submission and possible publication are anywhere from 6 to 12 months.

Despite being around since 2004 there has already been a noticeable evolution of the journal. One evolution is the aforementioned increase in issues per volume. Another evolution is on the software side. Each article has images and with the first issues the images were tiny and off to the side. They would require the reader to click on them and the image would open in a separate window. However, they solved this by issue 2 and just placed the images within the article themselves to be viewed without clicking on them. Each issue also features a new background with their logo in the foreground. Originally it was just black and white comic panels n the background, but have since move to colored panels and other pieces of art as the background. Beyond that there is not much evolution. Comparing the oldest, middle, and newest issues (volume 1 Issue 1, volume 6 Issue 2, and volume 11 Issue 1) the journal follows the same Intro, Article, Review, then Colophon order. Sometimes they start with direct transcripts of the staff’s visit to conventions and panels.

 Six articles are summarized to show the variety, the detail, and the benefit to comics scholarship. Each one was chosen from previously mentioned issues, and then an issue between each.

First is “Compromised Divisions: Thresholds in Comic Books and Video Games”by Laurie N. Taylor. This article is from Volume 1 Issue 1 and covers a comparison between comics and video games. Specifically, it goes over the reader/player’s pacing in relation to spacial awareness. Such as the sequences going from panel to panel on the page or going in different order of sequences in video games. Though for video games the article only focuses on survival horror. It should also be noted that the article was published before the release of Resident Evil 4, which transformed the structure of the survival horror genre in 2005. The effects of which are still felt today in video games.

From Volume 3, Issue 2 is “Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of William Blake and Alan Moore” by Roger Whitson. This is from a special issue about William Blake, an English poet and painter during the 18th and 19th Century. This specific article connects William Blake and Alan Moore, who wrote the canonical comic book Watchmen. Both men seem to follow the same trend of how both were rebels and critics of the field, but because of that, grew popular and respected. The point is further illustrated in their similar stylistic choices between Blake’s “The Tyger” and Watchmen.

“Imagining a Multiplicity of Visual Rhetorical Traditions: Comics Lessons from Rhetoric Histories” by Franny Howes is from Volume 5, Issue 3. Here, the author seeks to illustrate how the rhetorical indigenous histories  relate to the development of comics. To break that down, it is how stories were told visually and how they impacted comics now.

The article by Andrew J. Friedenthal “Monitoring the Past: DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Narrativization of Comic Book History” from Volume 6, Issue 2 is about the continuity shift within DC Comics after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. Specifically, how it impacted the way super hero comics after would be able to excite fans as well as straighten-out the decades of history and stories that came before.

“Don’t Pray for Paris: Drawing in Post-Charlie Hebdo Graphic Novels” by Bart Beaty is from Volume 9, Issue 2. This article discusses the Charlie Hebdo shooting  that was part of the 2015 France attacks. Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical weekly magazine. This article discusses the aftermath of the event with the outcry of support, its increase in sales, as well as the irony of its censorship in some places.

“Graphic Narratives as Non-Fiction in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era”by Dirk Vanderbeke. This one comes from volume 11, issue 1.This one covers, as the title suggests, the history of comics placed into the context of historical visual medias. It was done to show a natural evolution into what we would consider comics. Vandereke expands the traditional history of comics into the inclusion of literary mediums converted into a visual format. Such examples listed were the Canticum canticorum Block book, Rodolphe Töpffer’s narratives in the 19th century, and Underground Comix in the 1960’s. All of which show their importance in creating the visual and literary combination.

In conclusion the range of content and the organization of the journal does well to highlight why this is such a useful journal in comics scholarships. Being 15 years old as of this profile, it is easy to see why this is such a respected journal. It even has an entry in the MLA Directory of Periodicals to further validate itself.

Works Cited

Beaty, Bart. “Don’t Pray for Paris: Drawing in Post-Charlie Hebdo Graphic Novels.” ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of Florida, 2017, http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v9_2/beaty/.

Bird, Matthew. “How Resident Evil 4 Changed Horror Gaming.” Den of Geek, 16 Oct. 2017, https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/resident-evil/259499/how-resident-evil-4-changed-horror-gaming.

Friedenthal, Andrew J. “Monitoring the Past: DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Narrativization of Comic Book History.” ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of Florida, 2012, http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v6_2/friedenthal/.

Howes, Franny. “Imagining a Multiplicity of Visual Rhetorical Traditions: Comics Lessons from Rhetoric Histories.” ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of Florida, 2010, http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v5_3/howes/.

Taylor, Laurie. “Compromised Divisions: Thresholds in Comic Books and Video Games.” ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of Florida, 2004, http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v1_1/taylor/.

Vanderbeke, Dirk. “Graphic Narratives as Non-Fiction in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era.” ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of Florida, 2019, http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v11_1/vanderbeke/.

Web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu. (2019). ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. [online] Available at: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/ehost/flatdetail?vid=7&sid=34b63da1-115d-4936-836a-a844bb72023e%40sdc-v-sessmgr03 [Accessed 28 Oct. 2019].

Whitson, Roger. “Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of William Blake and Alan Moore.” ImageTexT Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of Florida, 2007, http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v3_2/whitson/.

The Comics Grid

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is an open access online journal from Cambridge University and published by the Open Library of Humanities. It was started in 2009, and the editorial board is comprised of a group from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Brazil, Spain, and France. The journal is headed by Kathleen Dunley, Ernesto Priego, and Peter Wilkins with each head from the University of Advancing Technology, United States; University of London, United Kingdom; and Douglas College, Canada respectively. Submissions are put through an open review system for outside peer reviewers, and when someone submits an article, Comics Grid wants and encourages two-way communication between the author and peer reviewer.

             While the main content covers American comics, it also has topics from art to Japanese manga. Such examples of this variety are the articles “The Citi Exhibition Manga マンガ (British Museum, 2019)” and ” The Relationship Between Personalities and Faces of Manga Characters”. Some examples of traditional comics are “Never Judge a Book by its Comics. A Review of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics” and “Marvel and DC Characters Inspired by Arachnids”.  There is also more variety content format. There are interviews, commentaries, editorials, and reviews, in addition to the standard articles in this journal. An example of each of these in the respective order are “Comics Activism: An Interview with Comics Artist and Activist Kate Evans”, “Genre and Discourse (and Zombies), an Introduction in Pictures”, “Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics” , and “Raising the Superhero Wardrobe: A Review of The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction“.

There is a problem with the journal’s organization that can confuse many who try to use this resource. Often articles are published with different dates, even if published in regularly released issues. Then articles can be reorganized into “Special Collections” which seem to act closer to genres even though they categorize all articles by keywords. All of these separate organizational methods are redundant when one can find any article on the site without needing to go through the issues themselves. When one searches through the journal they can quickly be caught in a loop when trying to narrow down these results.

Despite the redundant organizational issues, The Comics Grid is a useful scholarly journal for more than just American comics. Comic books and graphic novels are still the core of their subject matter.

Works Cited

“The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.” Edited by Kathleen Dunley et al., The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, Open Library of Humanities, 2009, https://www.comicsgrid.com/.

Comparative Drama

Comparative Drama is an academic journal boasting a quarterly publication frequency, which has been administered by the Western Michigan University Department of English since 1967. Its editorial board is constituted of academics from a wide range of disparate institutions, from Stanford, Duke, and Emory, to Freie Universität in Berlin. The journal is edited by Elizabeth A. Bradburn—Associate Professor of English at WMU. As of this writing, over twenty years of Comparative Drama can be accessed by Tennessee Tech students and faculty via the Angelo and Jeanette Volpe Library online database directory. From the directory, scholars may select the “Arts and Humanities Database” by ProQuest. It may interest students of Literature and Drama that, according to the MLA “Directory of Periodicals”, this publication concerns itself with “drama studies which are international in spirit and interdisciplinary in scope. While medieval drama is a special interest, articles may focus on drama of any period from antiquity to the present” (MLA International Bibliography Directory of Periodicals). This journal has a modest circulation of about three hundred, to various institutions and individuals.

While Comparative Drama does not accept unsolicited book reviews, reviews make up a majority of this publication’s content, with an average of forty submitted and published annually. Scholarly articles, meanwhile, only make up about twenty to twenty-five of Comparative Drama’s annual titles. These are chosen from a pool of submissions averaging eighty to one hundred per year. Submissions are published according to the Chicago Manual of Style, and authors can expect to wait up to two months after submission for notice of the journal’s publication decision.

Comparative Drama invites authors who have been previously published by the journal to submit again, however they adhere to a policy that limits authors to one publication per three years. Authors are given a suggested length for submissions of twenty-five to thirty typed, double-spaced pages—or 7,500 to 10,000 words—and they are asked to avoid jargon. Interestingly, while two-hundred fifty-word abstracts are requested with each submission, and while abstracts are included on the ProQuest “Arts and Humanities Database”, they are not published along with the articles in the journal, itself. Conveniently for authors, the Comparative Drama’s homepage at the WMU website includes an electronic “style sheet”, which can be found under the “Submissions Guidelines” section.

Students and scholars of drama can expect to find a vast and meandering range of topics discussed within Comparative Drama’s contents, and throughout its half-century of volumes; however, the works of William Shakespeare seem to occupy a disproportionate amount of space upon its pages. And yet, this may simply reflect that particular author’s disproportionate influence upon this field of study. For example, in the Winter 1999/2000 volume of Comparative Drama, Cynthia Marshall reviews Gillian Murray Kendall’s Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays, wherein the reviewer analyses the complier’s uses of the theorical lens of “New Historicism”.

This journal’s consideration of the “New Historicism” mode of critical theory is likewise apparent in the article “O’Neill and Jaime: A Survivor’s Tale” by Michael Hinden, published in the Winter 2001-2002 volume. Therein, Hinden shows how the tumultuous life of Eugene O’Neill’s brother Jamie had influenced the playwright’s works—from Desire Under the Elms, to the more obvious Long Day’s Journey into Night.

But, for students and scholars looking for more international and diverse fare, the journal does not fall short of its stated, broad scope of interest. In “Staging Queer Marxism in the Age of State Feminism: Gender, Sexuality, and the Nation in Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpinar’s Kadin Erkekleşince (When Woman Becomes Masculine)” author Rüstem Ertuğ Altinay explores how the eponymous play represents how certain socio-sexual particularities that were characteristic of the late Ottoman Empire engender “the conditions of (im)possibility of a queer Marxist feminism.” With titles ranging broadly in focus, and by engaging texts from all different eras and regions using widely disparate lenses of critical theory, Comparative Drama lends itself to the eclectic dramatic scholar seeking to peruse through a sea of disparate topics.

Works Cited

“Comparative Drama,” MLA International Bibliography Directory of Periodicals. EBSCO Industries, Inc. 2019. http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/ehost/flatdetail?vid=3&sid=f9926f04-50c0-44fc-a852-d8ddaf5d34f3%40sdc-v-sessmgr01

“Submission Guidelines”. Comparative Drama. Western Michigan University, https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/policies.html.

Cankara, Murat. “‘May a Wasp Sting Your Tongue!”: The Armenian Stereotype in Ottoman Popular Performances from the Empire to the Nation-State”, Comparative Drama. vol. 52, iss. 4, 2019, pp. 215-241. ProQuest. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/artshumanities/publicationissue/C55DFFF07AE94D58PQ/$B/1/Comparative+Drama$3b+Kalamazoo/02018Y10Y01$23Fall+2018$2fWinter+2019$3b++Vol.+52+$283$2f4$29/$N?accountid=28833.

Eskin, Catherine R. “Review: Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays”. Comparative Drama, vol. 33, iss. 4, 1999, pp. 515–519. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/artshumanities/docview/211697873/22861F2304C443F9PQ/7?accountid=28833.

Hinden, Michael. “O’Neill and Jamie: A Survivor’s Tale”. Comparative Drama. vol. 35, iss. 3, 2001, pp. 435-445. ProQuest. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/artshumanities/docview/211715021/2CEAAF0984A4B9DPQ/11?accountid=28833.

Mazzaro, Jerome. “Shakespeare’s “Books of Memory”: 1 and 2 Henry VI”, Compartive Drama. vol. 35, iss. 3, 2001, pp. 393-414. ProQuest. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/artshumanities/docview/211698648/2CEAAF0984A4B9DPQ/9?accountid=28833.

Robinson, James E. “Caribbean Caliban: Shifting the “I” of the Storm”. Comparative Drama, vol 33, iss. 4, 1999, pp. 431-453. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/artshumanities/docview/211705761/22861F2304C443F9PQ/3?accountid=28833.

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay. “Staging Queer Marxism in the Age of State Feminism: Gender, Sexuality, and the Nation in Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Kadın Erkekleşince (When Woman Becomes Masculine)”. Comparative Drama. vol. 52, iss. 4, 2019, pp. 243-273. ProQuest. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/artshumanities/publicationissue/C55DFFF07AE94D58PQ/$B/1/Comparative+Drama$3b+Kalamazoo/02018Y10Y01$23Fall+2018$2fWinter+2019$3b++Vol.+52+$283$2f4$29/$N?accountid=28833.

Journal of Literary Theory

The Journal of Literary Theory is an English and German Journal that publishes 15-20 articles biannually through a blind peer review process. This journal has been in operation since 2007 and takes into account past perceptions and new developments within the genre of literary theory. The first issues of this journal primarily deal with establishing the field of literary theory as a diverse and changing philosophical ideal pervasive in many languages. Such as in the article “Philosophy and Literature,” (Skilleås) the ongoing debates are indicative of the prevailing nature of literary theory where in many established individuals discuss past conceptions of literary theory and their modern-day implications on the study. In “Cognitive Poetics and Literary Theory” (Stockwell) new studies are changing the way we perceive text acquisition by an audience bringing into question our views on historical literature to this point. “It is argued that stylistics and cognitive poetics have been successful in providing a descriptive account of how readers construct propositional content from literary reading, but they have only recently turned their attention to a correspondingly rigorous analysis of aesthetics and emotional involvement” (Stockwell 135). These themes of the past influences on the climate of modern literary theory are characteristic of this specific journal. Whereas stylistic choices were focused on more in the past, aesthetics and emotional response is now being researched more thoroughly in this journal. Many studies take into account the effects of past philosophy on the current prevailing theories of literature. These ideas are not alien to current events. Articles often discuss the interrelationship of multiple modern-day events with their implicit effects on the current theories surrounding literature.

This journal also takes into account paradoxical views on the nature of literary theory, specifically fiction. “Notes for a(Nother) Theory of Experientiality” and “Law, Tragedy, Spirit: Hölderlin Contra Agamben” (Caracciolo) discuss the paradoxical nature of the individual’s experience compared to the writer’s intention, and how lack of separation between law and violence alters expectation respectively. These issues located in the middle of the current volumes are indicative of a logical shift towards the journal’s modern day more contradictory studies. They often focus on the perceptions of fiction and implicit meaning found at the heart of modern-day writing while also continuing a focus on emotional response, which was stated to have little research in earlier versions. In “The Paradox of Fiction – A Brief Introduction into Recent Developments, Open Questions, and Current Areas of Research, Including a Comprehensive Bibliography from 1975 to 2018” (Konrad) and “Emotion in the Appreciation of Fiction” (Ferran). These modern titles have shifted from establishing concepts within the field to shedding light on social constructions and ideas that motivate individuals to be interested in the genres they enjoy. “The Paradox of Fiction” describes itself as “a collection of essays which deal with this paradox, or, more generally, with problems surrounding fictional emotions. In our brief introduction, we want to pose some questions that we think are still up for debate” (Konrad 193). This journal has many detailed studies regarding the nature of human interest in the realm of literature. Often breaking down concepts and generalizing ideas to explain trends intrinsic to the modern states of fiction and popularity within the populace. These studies generally involve many mediums in which the discussions are elaborated within such as videogames, movies, and other fictional media, however the focus is largely on the reactions to these media rather than the material itself.

This journal as a whole seeks to document and explain perceived trends in fiction by giving historical and social context to its reasoning. These claims are further supported by the posting of controversy and responses at the end of each journal entry. These discussions are often written by scholars responding to some of the larger questions posed by each issue of The Journal of Literary Theory. However, it is of note to mention that these additions to the text often raise more question than they answer. Putting monkey wrenches in the established logic of other writers. These inconsistencies, arguably, are at the heart of literary theory. In “A Strange Discussion: ›Ethical Criticism‹” in vol 6 no.1 by Michael Titzmann, he criticizes the nature of individuals creating meaning in a text, and how that subjectivity effects criticism and its ethicality based on personal bias. It seems, with this knowledge, that with each new addition to the journal; ideas are expanded upon in an inconsistent fashion. Tending towards a general method of thought regarding emotional response rather than objective truth when discussing various forms of media. This, by nature, creates discrepancies in the logic of published works, however this is not negative. The concepts and ideas proposed by these conflicts often shed light on deeper truth that prevails within the research. Inspiring new articles to pick up where the previous issues left off.

So, to conclude, the nature of literary theory as proposed by this journal is not a concrete reality. It changes often by the lens and scope in which scenarios are viewed; within the realm of aesthetic and emotional response it is found that their nature is as to be expected, subjective creating some seeming inconsistencies in response. However, this journal does an exceptional job of postulating new ideas involving literature, and if nothing else inspires creativity in the minds of its viewership. This journal isn’t accessible through TTU unfortunately. I gained access from a friend at TSU, so if you know anyone from Tennessee State University, that is willing to share their school login, they have full access to this journal.

Works Cited

Caracciolo, Marco. “Notes for a(Nother) Theory of Experientiality.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 6, no. 1, 2012, pp. 41-64.

Cooper, Ian. “Law, Tragedy, Spirit: Hölderlin Contra Agamben.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 6, no. 1, 2012, pp. 195-212.

Ferran, Íngrid Vendrell. “Emotion in the Appreciation of Fiction.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 12, no. 2, Mar. 2018, pp. 204–223.

Konrad, Eva-Maria, et al. “The Paradox of Fiction – A Brief Introduction into Recent Developments, Open Questions, and Current Areas of Research, Including a Comprehensive Bibliography from 1975 to 2018.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 12, no. 2, Mar. 2018, pp. 193–203.

“MLA International Bibliography: EBSCO.” EBSCO Information Services, Inc. Www.ebsco.com, https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/mla-international-  bibliography.

Skilleås, Ole Martin. “Philosophy and Literature” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007, 45-60.

Stockwell, Peter. “Cognitive Poetics and Literary Theory.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007, pp. 135-152.

Titzmann, Michael. “A Strange Discussion: ›Ethical Criticism‹.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol.6, no. 1, 2012, pp. 279-286.

Young Scholars in Writing

Young Scholars in Writing, abbreviated YSW, is an academic journal that only publishes undergraduate writers. The essays, written by undergraduates, do not have a specific focus, but instead have a wide variety of topics. Their main subjects focus on rhetoric and composition, writing, literacy, linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. It is an annual journal that began in 2003, published by the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Sciences. The main editor is Doug Downs, but they have large editorial and peer review boards along with the main editor. The peer review board has only undergraduates from Montana State University while the editorial board has members from many different colleges and universities. The journal does not give an editorial board for each volume. Instead, they have one page on their website that lists the editorial board in full.

There are sixty-four articles submitted per year, but only seven of those sixty-four are published which is roughly an eleven percent acceptance rate. The articles are suggested to be ten to twenty-five pages in length with the only requirement that it is authored by an undergraduate student with a preferred MLA style editing. The journal does not include  book reviews or short notes, and there is no charge for submission or pages. It is also actively indexed and peer reviewed. The earlier volumes seem to mostly focus on politics and writing and how it goes with different subjects. The very early volumes do not include abstracts of each article like the more recent articles do, but all of the articles give a biography of the authors which basically describes their position in college- where they were at in their college careers when they wrote the articles and what they are doing after the article is published. 

While the earlier volumes do not contain abstracts, the titles give clear enough descriptions of what the author is writing about in order for a reader to know what they will be reading in the article. For example, while looking through the articles of volume three, a reader can tell exactly what Amanda Marshall will be writing about in her article “Rhetoric of Anorexia: Eating as a Metaphor for Living,” or what Rebecca Feldmann will be discussing in her article “Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertisements.” While those two articles focus on writing in different aspects, articles like “Feminist Figures or Damsels in Distress? The Media’s Gendered Misrepresentation of Disney Princesses,” by Isabelle Gill, focus on a more political topic. The journal even includes topics on religion. One example being Natalie Selah’s article “Crafting Theology: Toward a Theory of Literacy Smiths.” Another example of religion in this journal is Madeline J. Crozier’s article “The Melting Pot as a God-Term.” There are also articles that focus on specific time periods, articles like “American Womanhood and The New Woman: A Rhetorical Consideration of the Development and Circulation of Female Stereotypes, 1890-1920” by Rachel Lynn Stroup. Staring in 2010, they had a section dedicated to showcase first-year writers along with other articles that have the normal variety of students. The wide variety of subjects within the articles of the journal would attract readers of all disciplines to read the journal.

For students that attend Tennessee Tech, the journal can be accessed through the library’s website. The link for the full text option allows students to access all volumes of the journal and all of the articles within each volume. For anyone else looking to read this journal, a simple Google search will take you to the Montana State University website where they house all volumes, and articles within each volume, in the archives tab. This journal is very useful for all undergraduates that would want a paper published in a journal,and  it could also be useful to a range of students, or curious readers, if they are interested in any of the topics that are being published. 

Works Cited 

Crozier, Madeline. “The Melting Pot as a God-Term.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 16, 2019. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/1296. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Feldmann, Rebecca. “Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertisements.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 3, 2005. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/94. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Gill, Isabelle. “Feminist Figures or Damsels in Distress? The Media’s Gendered Misrepresentation of Disney Princesses.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 13, 2016. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/330. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Marshall, Amanda. “Rhetoric of Anorexia: Eating as a Metaphor for Living.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 3, 2005. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/95. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Selah, Natalie. “Crafting Theology: Toward a Theory of Literary Smiths.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 13, 2016. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/327. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Stroup, Rachel. “American Womanhood and The New Woman: A Rhetorical Consideration of the Development and Circulation of Female Stereotypes, 1890-1920.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 16, 2019. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/1089. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

“Young Scholars in Writing.” MLA Directory of Periodicals. ESBCO Industries, 2016.

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3142771%40sessionmgr4007. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Writing. University of Missouri, 2019. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/issue/archive. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Studies in the Novel

Studies in the Novel is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1969 by James W. Lee at the University of North Texas. It contains book reviews and essays over a plethora of topics and is not restricted to any period, subject, or genre of literature. The current Editor is Nora Gilbert and the editorial board consists of an even mix of male and female professors from various universities across America. Once a year a guest editor is brought on and an issue will feature a single author or topic. Essay subjects range from early science fiction, to the use of holy grail motifs in McCarthy’s The Road, to the CIA’s involvement in the film adaptation of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Early issues of Studies in the Novel (1969-1992) are available to TTU students in print at the Volpe Library and journals from 1994-present can be found online through the Proquest Central database.

Submissions to Studies in the Novel must be submitted online as a MS Word file adhering to MLA format consisting of around 6,000 to 9,000 words. Due to the scope of the journal, there are no restrictions on the submission’s subject or stance. Submitted articles are reviewed through the double-blind process after the editor-in-chief has deemed the article to be of sufficient quality. The acceptance rate for submitted articles ranges from approximately 10-13% while book reviews are commissioned by the journal and are almost universally accepted.

 

The content of articles remain, at their core, similar throughout the 50 years the journal has been in publication. They all approach a work of literature from a specific angle. While articles vary wildly in their chosen interpretation of a work, some books are featured several times throughout the years. This reevaluation makes sense when considering the change of culture that has occured since the early issues of the nascent journal’s inception fifty years ago. The following synopses will help to demonstrate both the journal’s broad spectrum of topics and eclectic sources while also highlighting how various interpretations of the same text are encouraged.We begin our look at this expansive journal with 1985’s Spring volume. “Parent-Child Tensions in Frankenstein: The Search for Communion” takes a look at how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a metaphor for abusive/negligent parents and how there is a subtle inference of familial discord within Victor Frankenstein’s family. This article is juxtaposed with “Faulkner’s blues”, a review-essay that delves into Faulkner’s love of the musical genre and how the themes and culture of the music influenced how he wrote his stories.

 

In the spring of 1999, Studies in the Novel featured diverse essays ranging from Mark Twain’s unfinished “Mysterious Stranger” story to the idea of conscience in Frankenstein. “Terrible dreams of creative power: The question of no. 44” takes a look at the multiple versions of an incomplete story Twain had worked on in his later years and is concerned with the character No. 44/Young Satan. “Frankenstein and the Reprobate’s Conscience” sees Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein not as a warning about scientific advancement, but as a novel dealing with “horrors raised out there in the world by a scientist recklessly driving to change the course of nature.” (Goodall 19).

The most recent volume of Studies in the Novel (Vol. 51, Iss. 3) contains another article about Frankenstein, “Frankenstein’s Ghosts”. While the previously mentioned articles were concerned with conscience and relationships within families, this article focuses on the use of ghosts in the narrative and how the tangible existence of an ethereal being allows the author to address “A contemporary anxiety produced by the scientific advances that she records” (Anderson 333). This issue also highlights how submissions have changed throughout the years. Topics and fears that were less relevant during the journal’s inception in 1969 are now prevalent. This can be seen with “Digital Screens and National Divides in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West” by Liliana Naydan. Naydan argues that Exit West is a warning about technology offering merely the façade of being connected while we are actually more separated than ever.

Studies in the Novel is a prestigious, ongoing journal that any English major will be able to find something of interest in. While canonized literature seems to take precedence, both lesser known novels from the past and more modern works are also featured.

Works CitedAnderson, Emily Hodgson. “Frankenstein’s Ghosts.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 51, no. 3, Oct. 2019, pp. 333-347., doi:10.1353/sdn.2019.0043

Claridge, Laura P. “Parent-child Tensions in Frankenstein: The Search for Communion.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 17, no. 1, Apr. 1985, pp. 14-26.

Goodall, Jane. “Frankenstein and the Reprobbate’s Conscience.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 31, no. 1, Apr. 1999, pp. 19-20.

Krause, David. “Faulkner’s Blues.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 17, no. 1, Apr. 1985, pp. 80-94.

Naydan, Liliana M. “Digital Screens and National Divides in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 51, no. 3, Oct. 2019, pp. 433-451., doi:10.1353/sdn.2019.0048

Royal, Derek Paarker. “Terrible Dreams of Creative Power: The Question of No. 44” Studies in the Novel, vol. 31, no. 1, Apr. 1999, pp. 44-59.