Eugene Onegin the Cold War Monument: How Edmund Wilson Quarreled with Vladimir Nabokov by Tim Conley

“…The tale of how Edmund Wilson quarreled with Vladimir Nabokov over the latter’s 1964 translation of Eugene Onegin can be instructively read as a politically charged event, specifically a “high culture” allegory of the Cold War. …”
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Wilder’s Joyce: Inspiration, Borrowing, Appropriation, Plagiarism by S. E. Gontarski

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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…In a Freudian/gender approach to the issue of male sex identity in Charles Dickens’s fiction, the present article starts from Edmund Wilson’s seminal study ‘The Two Scrooges.’ It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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A close[r] reading of E.E. Cummings’s ‘anti-rationality’ by J. E. Terblanche, A. M. de Lange

“…Blackmur, Helen Vendler and Edmund Wilson) are examined in this article. The central question posed is what the frame of anti-rationality actually marks or masks - should Cummings’s poetry be shown to be quite rational, after all. …”
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“It’s Just a Matter of Form”: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Experiments with Masculinity by Sarah Parker

“…These works are both formally innovative, blurring the boundaries between poetry and drama, causing Edmund Wilson to complain that Millay had “gone to pieces”. …”
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