<![CDATA[Gregory Schneider - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:55:14 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[Saul Bellow's Ravelstein: The Master's Final Novel]]> Saul Bellow's final novel is indeed an odd beast. A hybrid of the anti-novel (there's very little external conflict), biography (the account of Abe Ravelstein), and memoir of a barely-disguised Bellow himself.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Dec 16, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/saul-bellows-ravelstein-masters-final-novel-11517.html <![CDATA[Walter Mosley's Cinammon Kiss]]> The Easy Rawlins series is where Walter Mosley's genius best expresses itself. This is a genius of ear and eye, of vision and soul.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Dec 06, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/walter-mosleys-cinammon-kiss-9639.html <![CDATA[R.K. Narayan's The Guide and Buchi Emechetta's Kehinde]]> By splitting the self in two, the post-colonial characters seeks not only to save himself in the face of advancing modernity and industrialism, but also to indirectly interrogate the psychological risks of such duality.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Dec 05, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/rk-narayans-guide-buchi-emechettas-kehinde-12148.html <![CDATA[Narrative Passing in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]> The narrative structure of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein occurs in passes, like a relay race with three runners, who each pass the baton in a circuitous pattern.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 26, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/narrative-passing-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-11599.html <![CDATA[Charles Reznikoff's The Manner Music: A Book of Not's]]> This paper explores the Objectivist technique used by the writer Charles Reznikoff in his novel The Manner Music.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 26, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/charles-reznikoffs-manner-music-book-nots-11516.html <![CDATA[Transvestites in Renaissance Drama]]> Jonathan Dollimore states that the "human identity is more constituted than constitutive; constituted by the pre-existing structures of language and ideology, and by the material conditions of human existence."

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 26, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/transvestites-renaissance-drama-11514.html <![CDATA[An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory]]> In the introduction to Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, and Politics, the authors Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins lay out the keynote aim of their book: "To focus on the methods by which post-colonial drama resists imperialism and its effects."

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 26, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/an-introduction-post-colonial-theory-11512.html <![CDATA[A Post-Colonial Critique of Othello]]> This paper will examine Shakespeare's Othello using Post-Colonial literary theory as its touchstone.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 26, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/a-post-colonial-critique-othello-11511.html <![CDATA[Julian Barnes' Love, etc.]]> Though Love, etc, may seem a conventional, linear, and straight-forward retread of Talking it Over, his attention to language and voice makes this novel a gem.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 07, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/julian-barnes-love-etc-8036.html <![CDATA[An Examination of Novelist Will Self]]> He may be overlooked (and lately unpublishable) in American, but author Will Self trumps his contemporaries.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 07, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/an-examination-novelist-will-self-8034.html <![CDATA[Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]> As a novelist myself, I found myself re-examining my own techniques after reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 07, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/haruki-murakamis-wind-bird-chronicle-8033.html <![CDATA[A Review of Bret Easton Ellis' Latest Novel, Lunar Park]]> Bret Easton Ellis is trying, at least, with his new novel Lunar Park. However, effort doesn't make the grade.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 04, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/a-review-bret-easton-ellis-latest-novel-lunar-park-8266.html <![CDATA[Understanding Samuel Beckett]]> Beckett has been known to be a "difficult" author. Here's a crack at what it's all about.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 03, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/understanding-samuel-beckett-8030.html <![CDATA[Frantz Fanon: An Introduction to Black Skin, White Masks]]> This book is a hybrid of psychological analysis, conditional study, political manifesto, and exploration sexual identity and identities. At the center of this is Fanon's own examination: outsider and insider, student and doctor; teacher and disease.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/frantz-fanon-introduction-black-skin-white-masks-9638.html <![CDATA[Charles Brockden Brown's Somnambulism: A Fragment]]> In "Somnambulism: A Fragment" the gothic style conveys terror: Sleepwalking Althorpe murders the woman he desires. Yet, to read the story as a curiosity would miss its parodying against Benjamin Franklin's ideals of industry and pragmatism.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/charles-brockden-browns-somnambulism-fragment-9628.html <![CDATA[Sexual Anxiety in Kafka's Novels]]> In the three unfinished novels by Franz Kafka there is a quick and understated burst of sexual energy exhibited by the male protagonists which color their disrupted universe.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/sexual-anxiety-kafkas-novels-9619.html <![CDATA[Nella Larsen's Passing]]> "But what about the children?" no one asks in Nella Larsen's Passing. This paper will explore Larsen's dialectic of motherhood between the hyper-sensitive Irene and the perma-detached Clare, and to what ends these versions of motherhood coincide.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/nella-larsens-passing-9612.html <![CDATA[Thomas Middleton's and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl]]> Renaissance England was a hierarchical and oppressive environment for women. In this paper, I'll uncover the layers of female gender-role resistance as represented in Thomas Middleton's and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/thomas-middletons-thomas-dekkers-roaring-girl-9604.html <![CDATA[V.S. Naipul's House for Mr. Biswas]]> An axiom post-colonial literature: The novel acts as a site of subversion to resist the imperialistic monolith To resist colonization, the post-colonial novel seeks to redraw the world as the post-colonial subject (or Other) knows, or does not, know it.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/vs-naipuls-house-mr-biswas-9596.html <![CDATA[A Formalist Critique of the Novels by Charles Reznikoff]]> Though mostly known as one of New York's great Jewish Objectivist Poets, Charles Reznikoff wrote two novels that are often ignored. This research paper seeks to establish them as great artistic statements.

Contributor: Gregory Schneider
Published: Nov 02, 2005

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