Abstracts of English Studies - An Official Publication of The National Council of Teachers of English - In This Issue—

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Abstracts of English Studies presents monthly, short and objective summaries of relevant articles appearing in current issues across a wide range of English studies periodicals. The publication positions itself as an official outlet of the National Council of Teachers of English, outlining editorial leadership, advisory and editor boards, and contributor aims. It also explains coverage boundaries, noting that journals with no relevant material are not listed and issue numbers may be omitted due to space limitations.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages52

Reading Time1 h 20 min

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Editorial leadership and boards

Editors, advisory board, staff secretary

Publication aims and coverage policy

Selected article summaries

Conceptual ambivalence in Cooper's Leather-stocking

Woodcraft as a response to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Re-evaluation of Ring Lardner's fiction

Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

Baudelaire and Nathanael West

ABSTRACTSOF ENGLISH STUDIES # An Official Publication of # The National Council of Teachers of English 一IN THIS ISSUE— American LiteratureKenyon ReviewAtlantic MonthlyLiterature and PsychologyAudienceMeanjinBoston Public Library QuarterlyModern DramaBritish Book NewsModern PhilologyBucknell ReviewMonthBulletin of BibliographyNationCahiers du SudNew RepublicCLA JournalNew York Folklore QuarterlyColby Library QuarterlyNieuw Vlaams TijdschriftCollege EnglishNineteenth-Century FictionCommentaryNotes and QueriesCritiquePoetry PublicCritique(Paris)Psychoanalysis and the Psychoan.Rev.DiscourseReview of English StudiesDrama CritiqueRevue de Littérature ComparéeDurham University JournalSan Francisco ReviewEmerson Society QuarterlyScience and SocietyEnglish JournalShakespeare SurveyEnglish Studies in AfricaShenandoahExplicatorSpectrumForumStudies in LinguisticsInternat'l Journ.of American Ling.Texas QuarterlyJohn O'London'sThoreau Society BulletinJourn.of the Canadian Ling.Assoc.Victorian StudiesKansas MagazineVirginia Quarterly ReviewWestern Humanities Review # EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lewis SawinUniversity of Colorado Donna GerstenbergerJ.Wallace DonaldGeorge HendrickNew York,N.YCharles NilonJohn B.ShipleyClyde Hankey A.Lewis SoensWestern Michigan Univ.Charles D.Tate,JrJohn H.WrennArthur Normanof the University of ColoradoUniv.of Chicago Staff Secretary:Eloise Pearson # ADVISORY BOARD V.de Sola PintoUniversity of Nottingham W.Nelson FrancisFranklin and Marshall College # EDITORS Lewis LearyColumbia University Ernest C.MossnerUniversity of Texas The Editors of AES are proud to announce that the four distinguishedscholars whose names appear just above have accepted appointment toAES's newly created Advisory Board. The names of CONTRIBUTORS are nowlisted together on the outside back cover. The aim of Abstracts of English Studies is to provide a means bywhich scholars,teachers,and students may keep abreast of current peri-odical literature in the field of English studies.AES contributors examinemore than 400 periodicals,and each month AES publishes short,ob-jective summaries of all relevant articles appearing in current issues.Because of space limitations,AES does not list issue numbers of journalsin which nothing relevant appears.When a particular issue of a journal isnot listed,it contains nothing relevant to AES. AMERICAN LITERATURE,XXXI:4,January 1960. 693.Zoellner,Robert H."Conceptual Ambivalence in Cooper's Leather-stocking,"P.397-420.Cooper's view of Leatherstocking was ambivalent,as was his view of the Western movement.Although Leatherstocking isgenerally accepted by modern critics and readers as an idealized portraitof the archetypal Adamic hero,a closer examination of the hero's por-trayal reveals that Cooper's own increasing sense of society,class,caste,manners,and social involvement brought tension and contradiction intohis depiction of the trapper.Only in The Deerslayer,in which thetrapper is young and innocent,does Cooper create an idealized portraitof the hero.Cooper's conceptual ambivalence is most clearly obvious inThe Prairie,where Leatherstocking is often nothing more than a lonelyand talkative old man. 694.Ridgely,Joseph V.“Woodcraft:Simms's First Answer to UncleTom's Cabin,"pp.421-433.Simms's historical romance,Woodcraft,washis "first answer"to Uncle Tom's Cabin.In this novel,the fifth of aseries of seven,Simms chose to reply to Mrs.Stowe not by attacking heror her book,but by defending the South and its_institutions.Thus,hewrote of the South during a "heroic age,"the Revolution,deliberatelykept the novel’s tone soft,presented a slaveholding plantation owner asthe gentle and humorous hero,and based his plot upon the hero's grow-ing acceptance of responsibility.In Woodcraft the master-slave rela-tionship is founded upon mutual respect and concern. 695.Webb,Howard W.,Jr."The Meaning of Ring Lardner's Fiction:A Re-evaluation,"pp.434-445.Lardner's work was primarily concernedwith the prob

FAQs

What is the purpose of Abstracts of English Studies?

It provides a way for scholars, teachers, and students to stay current with English-studies periodical literature through short, objective monthly summaries.

How does the publication decide which journals to include?

It lists relevant journals for the current month, and because of space limits it does not include issue numbers when no relevant material appears.

What kind of content is summarized in each issue?

AES summarizes articles appearing in current issues of more than 400 periodicals, focusing on themes and interpretations within English literature and related fields.

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