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Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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ISSN (Print) 0040-4691 - ISSN (Online) 1534-7303
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Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s
“Dracula”
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  Abstract: Although Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air would become famous for its “War of the Worlds” Halloween broadcast (October 30, 1938), its first episode, another adaptation of a Victorian horror story, has received considerably less critical attention. A surprisingly busy and literal dramatization of the Bram Stoker novel, “Dracula” aired on July 11, 1938, introducing the “Broadways of the entire United States” to Welles’s vision of an accessible canon (Welles, “Dracula” 1:22). It was an apt choice; by this time, radio itself was threatening to become a vampire, seducing and hypnotizing the masses, unknowingly invited in from the ether.As a whole, radio programs from the 1930s still suffer from a lingering ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-13T00:00:00-05:00
Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s
Mock-Dystopic Brave New World
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  Abstract: In aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), World Controller Mustapha Mond tells John the Savage in their climactic tête-à-tête that “[t]he world’s stable now” (BNW 193; all citations refer to the Vintage edition unless otherwise stated). A good deal rides on accepting this statement uncritically, for readings generally concur that the dreadful terror of Huxley’s dystopian vision lies in the World State indeed being depressingly stable and frighteningly competent. But cracks and discrepancies everywhere reveal that it is not. One critical route is to minimize or rationalize away these problems; another is to fault them as authorial slips in world-building; another is to claim that dystopias are supposed to be ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-13T00:00:00-05:00
The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest
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  Abstract: “We should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality” (“Mr. Oscar Wilde” 5): such was Oscar Wilde’s stated philosophy encapsulating The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Wilde further referenced his philosophy in the play’s subtitle: “A trivial comedy for serious people.” Since its earliest reviews, commentators have routinely recognized an interrelationship between the serious and the trivial, and those who have attempted to grapple with these contraries have continually collected under two broad umbrellas: farce and satire. Numerous permutations percolate from these capacious categories, but their commonality lies in their ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-13T00:00:00-05:00
“Why Am I a Girl'”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank
Bidart’s “Ellen West”
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  Abstract: First published in ploughshares in 1975 and then republished in The Book of the Body in 1979, Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” is a fourteen-page dramatic monologue based on Ludwig Binswanger’s case history, originally published in 1944, of an individual with anorexia whom Binswanger pseudonymously named Ellen West.1 Scholars of Binswanger’s case history have revealed Ellen West to be Jewish and Binswanger to be anti-Semitic. Abigail Bray, for example, notes that Binswanger’s rhetoric pits the Aryan body, deemed synonymous with the “‘ethereal world’” of “lightness . . . and beauty,” against the dark Jewish body, which is described as a “‘tomb world’” signifying “social failure, mental and physical inertia, the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-13T00:00:00-05:00

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