Rocky Mountain E-Review
of Language and Literature
Volume 61, Number 1
SPRING 2007
CONTENTS
Articles | Forum | Reviews
Articles
Quantitative Verse, Bookselling, and Thomas Campion's
Observations in the Art of English Poesie
Barclay Green
Northern Kentucky University
Thomas Campion's Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602) critiques
the use of rhyme and meter in English poetry and develops the prosodic foundation
for vernacular quantitative verse. However, the treatise also responds to what Campion
saw as the unfortunate conditions under which learned, serious poets had to labor and
reacts to the rise of print and the business of bookselling. Through close attention
to the early chapters of Observations, we appreciate more fully the serious
motivations behind the quantitative movement, expand our knowledge of Campion's
contributions to it, and raise questions about how Elizabethan critics responded
to changes in their culture's literary systems.
Larry Watson's Montana 1948
and Euroamerican Representation of Native/Euroamerican History
Peter L. Bayers
Fairfield University
Like other recent films and texts, Larry Watson's Montana 1948 is preoccupied
with the legacy of the U.S. conquest of Native America and the ongoing colonial
relationship between the U.S. and Natives. But Montana 1948 also self-consciously
calls attention to the problems endemic to Euroamerican efforts to "revision"
Euroamerican/Native history. Watson suggests that at best most Euroamericans engage
in shallow, self-congratulatory pieties to relieve themselves of guilt in regard to
Native America, and that when it comes to telling stories about Euroamerican interaction
with Indians, these stories are mired in tired Indian representations that mystify
material history and the ongoing colonial status of Natives in the United States.
Through his flawed narrator, Watson underscores that Euroamericans must be more
rigorously self-critical as they engage questions of representation and their own
deeply held colonial desires when telling history.
Faith, Hope and Service
in Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel
Linda Naranjo-Huebl
Calvin College
Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel navigates a difficult path celebrating
service in a tradition -- Chicano Catholic culture -- that often valorizes the complete
effacement or the martyrdom of women. The novel's protagonist wants to reject the
traditional "angelic" role of a woman in a male-dominated culture and religious
tradition while embracing the virtue of service that is also part of those cultures.
By examining the diverse aspects of the order of angels that structure the book,
one can track Soveida's personal growth, healing, and understanding of service as
love of self and others.
The Desert Noir Detective Novels of Jon Talton
David William Foster
Arizona State University
Jon Talton is one of the most interesting writers about Phoenix. By contrast to
others who use Phoenix as a convenient setting for detective fiction, Talton
uses this genre to interpret the past-as-present. In Dry Heat (2004),
moreover, his narrative focuses on the contrasting fate of two famous Phoenix
residential neighborhoods.
Forum
Multilingual Awareness through Travel
Albrecht Classen
University of Arizona
The motivation to study one or more foreign languages can be vastly improved through
a travel experience. But I propose a structured travel course through various European
countries focusing on a specific topic, such as the history of the Middle Ages. As part
of this travel experience, students also acquire basic knowledge of various languages
and gain a new understanding of the wealth of linguistic differences in the global
community. This article analyzes a questionnaire handed out to a group of students
at the end of a three-week summer travel course and argues that a multi-language
exposure can have tremendous, long-term effects on students because they gain a new
degree of inspiration and motivation to acquire more than one, if not many, foreign
languages.
Reviews
Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions
of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha, by Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Reviewer: Daniel Gustav Anderson
Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the
Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex, by Opritsa D. Popa
Reviewer: Albrecht Classen
Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of
Robert W. Hanning, ed. Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior
Reviewer: Robyn Malo
The Romance of the Rose Illuminated:
Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, by Alcuin Blamires
and Gail C. Holian
Reviewer: Albrecht Classen
Les Femmes et la tradition littéraire,
by Vicki Mistacco
Reviewer: Jocelyne Le Ber
Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends,
by Jody Enders
Reviewer: Joanne Craig
Writing from the Edge of the World:
The Memoirs of Darién 1514-1527,
by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, ed. and trans. G.F. Dille
Reviewer: McKenna Rose
La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality
in Colonial Spanish America, by Jonathan D. Steigman
Reviewer: José I. Suárez
More Recent Publications in Oxfordian Studies
The Secret Love Story in Shakespeare's Sonnets,
by Helen Heightsman Gordon
Oxford's Letters: The Letters of Edward de Vere,
17th Earl of Oxford, CD, read by Derek Jacobi
De Vere as Shakespeare:
An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon, by William Farina
Reviewer: Michael Delahoyde
Searching for Shakespeare, by Tarnya
Cooper
Reviewer: Joanne Craig
Approaches to Teaching Emily
Brontë's Wuthering Heights, ed. Sue Lonoff and Terri A. Hasseler
Reviewer: Véronique Machelidon
Agent of Empire: William Walker
and the Imperial Self in American Literature, by Brady Harrison
Reviewer: Amy T. Hamilton
The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and
Identity in American Literature and Culture, by Mary McAleer Balkun
Reviewer: Michael Pringle
Stephen Crane Remembered, ed. Paul Sorrentino
Reviewer: James W. Long
Proust in Love, by William C. Carter
Reviewer: Catherine Marachi
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels,
by Ryan Simmons
Reviewer: Susana M. Morris
The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and
Latin American Fiction, by Lois Parkinson Zamora
Reviewer: Matthew S. Landers
The Spaces of Violence,
by James R. Giles
Reviewer: Kyle Wiggins
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945,
by Tony Judt
Reviewer: Daniel C. Villanueva
Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction,
by Ian Gregson
Reviewer: Mimi R. Gladstein
Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men
in Popular Genres 1945-2000,
by Brian Baker
Reviewer: Cindy A. McLeod
Cosmos,
by Witold Gombrowicz, trans. Danuta Borchardt
Reviewer: David Thomas Holmberg
Soi-Disant: Life-Writing in French,
ed. Juliana De Nooy et al.
Reviewer: Helynne H. Hansen
La séduction policière: signes
de croissance d'un genre réputé mineur: Pierre Magnan, Daniel
Pennac et quelques autres, by Pierre Verdaguer
Reviewer: Sophie Boyer
Ukraine's Orange Revolution, by Andrew Wilson
Reviewer: Daniel C. Villanueva
Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo,
by Joseph Dewey
Reviewer: Randy Laist
Fictions of Globalization: Consumption, the Market
and the Contemporary American Novel,
by James Annesley
Reviewer: Aliza Atik
Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of
White People, by John Hartigan, Jr.
Reviewer: Daniel Gustav Anderson
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students:
English and American Literature, 6th ed. by Nancy L. Baker and Nancy Huling
Reviewer: Michael C. Boecherer
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