UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 30, Page 13
May 4, 1995
University of Delaware Press releases 11 titles

     The University of Delaware Press has released 11 new publications
in the fields of literature, history, science and Shakespearean
studies.

     Colloquial Language in 'Ulysses': A Reference Tool by R. W. Dent,
retired from the University of California, Los Angeles, provides
useful, raw data for the Ulysses scholar, making available information
on Joyce's colloquial language and calling attention to easily
overlooked information in Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional English.

     'My Hideous Progeny': Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the
Father-Daughter Relationship, by Katherine Hill-Miller of Long Island
University, explores William Godwin's unsettling psychological legacy,
his generous intellectual gifts to his daughter and her response to
his influence as portrayed in the figure of the father in her novels.
The book illustrates a typical course of father-daughter
relationships.

     In a unique demonstration of the critical possibilities of
Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, To Kill a Text: The Dialogic
Fiction of Hugo, Dickens and Zola, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston of
Indiana University analyzes the intertextual conflicts among Victor
Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Charles Dickens' Bleak House and Emile
Zola's Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal.

     Daniel Statt, of Auburn University at Montgomery, in Foreigners
and Englishmen: The Controversy over Immigration and Population, 1660-
1760, traces the vigorous controversy over immigration policy,
population growth and the presence of foreigners in English society
that unfolded from the Restoration of 1660 to the accession of George
III a century later. The book stresses the intimate relationship among
economic and political discourse, state policy and the circumstances
that shaped the experience of migrants.

     'For the Purposes of Defense': The Politics of the Jeffersonian
Gunboat Program, by Gene A. Smith of Texas Christian University,
examines the politics and ideology of the fleet of small, shallow-
draft vessels commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.

     In a study that serves as an introduction to the field of neural
networks and its application, Neural Computation in Hopfield Networks
and Boltzmann Machines, by James P. Coughlin of Towson State
University and researcher Robert H. Baran, focuses on the existing
mathematical models of neurons and their interactions, the simulation
of which has been one of the biggest challenges facing modern science.

     Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson and Comic
Androgyny, by Grace Tiffany of the University of New Orleans, argues
that the differing Renaissance views of androgyny have their roots in
the conflicting classical traditions of satire and myth.

     Using a new paradigm of human motivation and development taken
from psychoanalytic theory, John Russell of Union County College,
N.J., shows in Hamlet and Narcissus that Hamlet's delay arises from
his narcissistic wish both to worship and to destroy his father.

     The theme of The Yoke of Love: Prophetic Riddles in 'The Merchant
of Venice' is the disinheritance of a father. Author Avraham Oz of the
University of Haifa makes an intellectual foray into many issues and
areas of thought suggested by the play.

     Rawdon Wilson of the University of Alberta relates in
Shakespearean Narrative the Bard's understanding of narrative in plays
to his narrative poems of the 1590s. The book also examines the
conventions used in the embedded narratives in the plays.

     Recognizing that the punctuation of the 16th and 17th centuries
existed for the speaking voice as much as for grammatical marking,
Anthony Graham-White of the University of Illinois, Chicago, traces
the changing uses of punctuation for dramatic purposes in his book,
Punctuation and Its Dramatic Value in Shakespearean Drama.

     All are available at the bookstore.
                                                         -Marta Kvande