College English, Vol. 60, No. 1, January 1998

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• The Last of the Mohicans and the Languages of America

  Lawrence Rosenwald

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  Abstract: Offers a sustained linguistic analysis of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." Finds that, because Cooper's technical blunders and moral limitations are always in view, they are revelatory. Suggests that no American author has gotten more things wrong about languages; but no one has dramatized more about how languages function in the American experience.

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• Incest, Incorporation, and King Lear in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres

  Marina Leslie

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  Abstract: Suggests that Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" is a faithful and a "profoundly subversive" revision of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Argues that the terms in which the novel have been most frequently praised, no less than the case made for banning it, raise important questions about the relationship between the novel's secret and the source of Smiley's Shakespearean "production."

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• Abidjan Journal

  Mary K. Ruetten

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  Abstract: Describes the author's experiences as a Fulbright scholar and English-as-a-Foreign-Language lecturer at the National University of Cote d'Ivoire in Abidjan before and during teacher and student strikes in May 1991. Notes that the author experienced what education is like for many people in the world--education in Abidjan was serious and deadly.

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• Quixote's Visor: A Rhetorical Turn

  William H. Green

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  Abstract: Discusses "Quixote's visor," a rhetorical turn that conceals a logical gap, an appeal to frustration or necessity. Suggests that the form of Quixote's visor, the testing of a series of possibilities, is a way of deriving logical and rhetorical inferences in response to acts of questioning. Discusses two "cousins"--Sherlock's visor and Darwin's visor.

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• POEMS

  Matthew J. Spireng, Aron Keesbury, Martha Modena Vertreace

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• REVIEW: Shakespeare on CD-ROM

  Helen J. Schwartz

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• COMMENT & RESPONSE: TWO COMMENTS ON “THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA OF THEORY VS. THE UNIFYING MISSION OF TEACHING”

  Howard, Karnezis / Dasenbrock, Gregory

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