Bibliography of William Carlos Williams Scholarship 2011

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1 Bibliography of William Carlos Williams Scholarship 2011 Life Along the Passaic River & Selected Recent Scholarship Bell, Barbara Currier. Williams' The Use of Force and First Principles in Medical Ethics. Literature and Medicine 3 (1984): Examines the question of medical ethics in The Use of Force. Beveridge, Allan. The Benefits of Reading Literature. Mindreadings: Literature and Psychology. Ed. Femi Oyebode. London: RCPsych Publications: Argues that students of medicine benefit from education in the humanities, and discusses a wide variety of literature with a medical context, including Life Along the Passaic River. Boone, April. William Carlos Williams s The Great American Novel: Flamboyance and the Beginning of Art. William Carlos Williams Review 26.1 (2006): Boone examines the question of form in The Great American Novel, and argues that Williams uses elements of metafiction, creating a novel that anticipates postmodern fiction. Boelhower, William. "A Place from which to Speak: The Gift Economy in William s Poem Morning. Paterson Literary Review (Jan. 2005): This essay discusses Williams s interest in Paterson immigrants and an Italian neighborhood on the margins of Paterson, focusing on the cultural gap between the residents and the poem s speaker. Boss, Laura. "Meeting with William Carlos Williams. Paterson Literary Review (Jan 2005): Describes Laura Boss s personal connection with Williams, his support for younger writers, and his influence on her work. Cohen, Milton. Stumbling into Crossfire: William Carlos Williams, Partisan Review, and the Left in the 1930s. Journal of Modern Literature 32.2 (2009): Discusses Williams s embattled relationship with Partisan Review in the 1930s. Coles, Robert, MD. Dr. William Carlos Williams: Affection, Anger, and Their Discontents. Literary Imagination 2.1 (2000): William Carlos Williams: A Writing Physician. JAMA (1981): Both essays discuss Williams s doctor stories.

2 2 Copestake, Ian, ed. The Legacy of William Carlos Williams: Points of Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars P, A collection of essays that examine Williams s contribution to various 20 th -century branches of poetics as well as his connections to modernism, abstract impressionism, surrealism, and other cultural movements that influenced the development of American poetry Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams. New York: Peter Lang, A collection of seventeen essays that examine the modernist dimensions and development of Williams s poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction. Highlighted are Williams s influence on younger poets, the importance of the American idiom on Williams s poetics; and a separate section, distinguished by two long essays by Gary Grieve-Carlson and Mark C. Long that focus on Paterson. Crawford, T. Hugh. Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, Examines the concurrent development of modernism and the professionalism of medicine in the United States, and explores scientific perspectives that are present throughout Williams s work The Politics of Narrative Form. Literature and Medicine 11.1 (1992): Discusses narration in Mind and Body. Entin, Joseph B. Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, Entin examines fiction and photography of the 1930s that adopts the sensationalism of popular culture, such as tabloids or pulp fiction, in order to show the injustices inflicted on the working class, as evidenced in their damaged and disfigured bodies. Contains an extended study of Life Along the Passaic River. Favis, Roberta Smith. Painting the Red City. American Art 17.1 (Spring 2003): Favis explores the sense of place that both Bluemner and Williams found in the city of Paterson, examining the connection between Oscar Bluemner s paintings of Paterson s silk factories and Williams s writing, especially Paterson. Just as Williams believed that Paterson was an appropriate subject for contemplation by the mind of modern man, Bluemner believed that Paterson, with its history of immigration and labor struggle, could serve as a symbol of the essence of America. Flanagan, Ian. Hearing the American Voice: Thomas Kinsella and William Carlos Williams, Irish Studies Review 16.3 (2008): Honorable mention, Louis Martz Prize 2009.

3 3 Gish, Robert F. "Rare Presences: The Knife of the Times and Life Along the Passaic River." William Carlos Williams, A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: G. K. Hall, A study of thematics and stylistics in Williams's short fiction. Hahn, Stephen. "It was civilization I was after": George Tice, William Carlos Williams, and the Archaeology of Paterson. Literary Review 50.4 (Summer 2007): A thorough and insightful review of two books that engage the sense of place of Paterson: Paterson, and Paterson II, by photographer George Tice. Hardy, Sarah Boykin. The Art of Diagnosis. Narrative 6.2 (1998): A comparative analysis of the short fiction of Poe and Williams, and the use of a medical slant in these works. Discusses A Face of Stone. Hillringhouse, Mark. "Looking at Paterson. Paterson Literary Review (Jan. 2005): Examines the influence of the city of Paterson city to the poem Paterson. Contains a description of the city, the references to Paterson, and examines Williams s choice of Paterson as a subject for a book-length poem. Hsiao, Irene. Early William Carlos Williams: Bad Keats? The Cambridge Quarterly 37 (2008): Awarded 2009 Louis Martz Prize for best essay on Williams published outside the WCW Review. Johnson, Bob. "A Whole Synthesis of His Time": Political Ideology and Cultural Politics in the Writings of William Carlos Williams, " American Quarterly 54.2 (2002): Considers Williams s politics, especially in his Depression writings, including Life Along the Passaic River. King, Nancy M.P., and Ann Folwell Stafford. Patient Stories, Doctor Stories, and True Stories: A Cautionary Reading. Literature and Medicine 11.2 (1992): Discusses Face of Stone. Kinnell, Galway. "Don t Cure It, Cultivate It: Visiting William Carlos Williams in the Late Fifties. Paterson Literary Review (Jan 2005): Recounts Kinnell s personal interaction with Williams during a visit to Rutherford, New Jersey.

4 4 Koch, Vivienne. The Novels and Short Stories." William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, An examination of Williams's fiction before 1950, including The Knife of the Times and Life along the Passaic River. Koch argues for their importance in the development of Williams s career and of the modern American short story. Laughlin, James. Remembering William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, Laughlin, Williams s editor at New Directions, offers a brief recollection and fond anecdotes that recall his relationship with Williams. Lunberry, Clark. "So Much Depends: Printed Matter, Dying Words, and the Entropic Poem." Critical Inquiry 30.3 (Spring 2004): Examines the friendship and relationship between Williams and Robert Smithson, the well-known New Jersey artist. MacGowan, Christopher J. The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook (Blackwell Guides to Literature). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Blackwell Guides to Literature). Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, Marsh, Alec. The Poet as a Man of Action: Emersonian Reflection on Williams The Wedge. College Hill Review 6 (2010): n. pag. Web. 26 May Traces Emersonian influence and tendencies, following the work of William James, in The Wedge, arguing for the usefulness of Richard Poirier s approach to Williams in Poetry and Pragmatism (1992) and The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections (1987). Monteiro, George. The Doctor's Black Bag: William Carlos Williams' Passaic River Stories. Modern Language Studies (1983): Examines Williams s dual careers as physician and writer, and the ways in which those callings interact in his Passaic River stories. Perloff, Marjorie. The Man Who Loved Women: The Medical Fictions of William Carlos Williams." The Georgia Review 34.4 (1980): An examination of psychosexual aspects of doctor-patient relationships in several doctor stories in Life along the Passaic River. Rozendal, Michael. Forms of Need: William Carlos Williams in the Radical Thirties Little Journals. William Carlos Williams Review 27.2 (2007): A study of Williams s story Jean Biecke, which appeared in the first issue of Blast, and Williams s desire to create a form that would respond to the social needs of the time.

5 5 Slate, J.E. "William Carlos Williams and the Modern Short Story." The Southern Review 4.3 (1968): Slate relates Williams's theories about writing short fiction to the stories themselves, demonstrating the modern qualities of Williams's thought and practice. Wagner, Linda Welshimer. "The Shape of Men's Lives." The Prose of William Carlos Williams. Middlebury, CT: Wesleyan UP, Wagner surveys Williams's short fiction, relating its subjects and techniques to those of contemporaneous writings. Walton, Eda Lou. X-Ray Realism. Rev. of Life Along the Passaic River. The Nation (28 March 1938): Early review of the book upon its publication by New Directions in 1938 priced at $1.95. In Walton s words, Dr. Williams takes no detours around life in the collection of sketches, as she calls them. Brutally honest in their representation of life in the Passaic river town, the collected stories, Walton claims, offer the reader the shock of observing bone suddenly and cleanly unfleshed. Williams, William Carlos. "A Beginning on the Short Story (Notes)," in Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, Witemeyer, Hugh. William Carlos Williams' Introduction to His Short Stories: A History and Some Interpretive Uses. Journal of Modern Literature 18.4 (1993): A close examination of a 48-page typescript sent by Williams in 1960 to his editor at New Directions, James Laughlin. Prepared by Judith Broome Department of English William Paterson University June 2011