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  • Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness
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Issue 6 2017

Issue 6 Editorial: Special Issue on Marilynne Robinson

Jennifer Daly
Editorials, Issue 6 2017
With the publication of Housekeeping in 1980, Marilynne Robinson announced herself on the literary stage as a writer of singular fiction – and then proceeded to not publish another novel for more than 20 years.... Read More...

“His soul is marching on”: Suppressing John Brown in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

Elizabeth Abele
Articles, Issue 6 2017
The trail across the sky retraces periodically, for as a universal force, outside of history, Brown is an archetype or prototype, a meteor that recurs comet-like. John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd (123) In The Pres... Read More...

Vision as Creation and Alternative:  The Role of the Author Function in Marilynne Robinson’s Plural Text Gospels of Gilead

Daniel Muhlestein
Articles, Issue 6 2017
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; Joel 2:28... Read More...

The Nature of the Horizon: Genealogy in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

Adrianna Smith
Articles, Issue 6 2017
The structural and literary symbolism of the horizon/horizontality is one of the most powerful and versatile devices in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead (2004). From an organizational perspective, Robinson car... Read More...

Unaffected: Marilynne Robinson’s Postmodern Sentimentalism

Lisa Mendelman
Articles, Issue 6 2017
The opening lines to Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping famously locate the novel in two literary genealogies. Evoking the opener of Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) and invoking the Biblical figure of com... Read More...

“The Empty Mirror”: Selfhood and the Utility of Language in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

Andrew Cunning
Articles, Issue 6 2017
We remain unknown to ourselves. Nieztsche, On the Genealogy of Morals 3. Nietzsche places this declaration right at the beginning of his Genealogy of Morals (1887) as an unequivocal statement of fact. It ... Read More...

Those Same Trees: Narrative Sequence and Simultaneity in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Novels

Rachel Sykes
Articles, Issue 6 2017
In 2014, the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s fourth novel, Lila, completed a trilogy of books set in the small fictional town of Gilead, Iowa.  The Pulitzer-prize-winning Gilead (2004) first tells the story... Read More...

Democracy, and Other Fictions: On the Politics of Robinson’s Non-Fiction

Tim Jelfs
Articles, Issue 6 2017
Since the publication of her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), Marilynne Robinson has built up a large body of non-fiction that sits beside, and in dialogue with, her fiction. Even before her environmentalist p... Read More...

(Sub)merged Worlds in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

Kelsie Donnelly
Articles, Issue 6 2017
Special Mention in the 2016 W.T.M Riches Essay Prize This essay explores the (sub)merged worlds depicted in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping (1980). Applying psychoanalytic conceptualisations of trauma,... Read More...

Review: Stephen Burt, the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

Philip McGowan
Issue 6 2017, Reviews
Burt, Stephen. the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2016. 432 pages. ISBN 9780674737877. Buy here. Over the course of any given year, I recei... Read More...
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