Stephen Crane Studies 17.2

Now let's take a look at volume 17, number 2 of Stephen Crane Studies. The first article is "The Sound and the Fury in Stephen Crane's Maggie and George's Mother" by Shunji Kuga. This takes a look at the slang and speech habits of Crane's bowery folk. I'll spoil the surprise for you though...they mostly yell and curse a lot, and utter things like, "What'd hell?". I know many of you do as well.

Next is a piece about "An Unpublished Note and Inscription of Stephen Crane" by George & Jean Houston. The items are on photographs and date from 1897, sent to a man named Eben Alexander. I won't reveal what Crane wrote, you'll have to read Stephen Crane Studies 17.2 to find that out.

"'Our Own Steve Crane' in Chicago," by George Monteiro, samples some funny unsigned parodies of Crane's poetic style that appeared in newspapers during his lifetime. This one was published in the Duluth News-Tribune, August 6,1897:

A man walked along a crooked road.
The road was so twisted that sometimes the man met himself coming back.
"Ah," he said, and smiled. "Nit."
He was a wise man and bought a bottle of Keeley cure.

Last is a review of Patrick Dooley's "A Community of Inquiry: Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature" submitted by John Clendenning.