... symptomatic reading surface reading new formalism reparative reading Louis Althusser ...

.... symptomatic reading surface reading new formalism reparative reading Louis Althusser ...

... In literary criticism, proponents of critique assume that texts have hidden meanings that must be uncovered by the critic. This has given rise to the idea that “suspicious” or “symptomatic” reading is a specific method of “deep” reading, as opposed to “surface” reading. Drawing on Wittgenstein...

... proposed interpretive paradigms such as “surface reading,” “ordinary language criticism,” and “postcritique” are correct in pointing out that the symptomatic reading practices associated with the hermeneutics of suspicion have brought literary criticism to a deadening impasse, Sbriglia nonetheless...

... from just outside Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The chapter argues that Lange’s nonrecognition of the Indigenous woman is emblematic of a surface reading of the Dust Bowl that reifies abject whiteness, as seen in texts such as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939). It then demonstrates how policies...

...Countertraditions of Critique In literary criticism, proponents of critique assume that texts have hidden meanings that must be uncovered by the critic. This has given rise to the idea that “suspicious” or “symptomatic” reading is a specific method of “deep” reading, as opposed to “surface...

... a symptom. In a close reading of Louis Althusser’s Reading Capital , she focuses on Althusser’s figure, “the play on words itself,” to disclose the way in which the act of reading both discloses and is taken by surprise by the work of form. symptomatic reading surface reading new formalism...

... and interfaces,” the essay thinks about what sorts of codes and myths ocean depth and ocean surface direct us to now. It concludes with how the concepts of circulation and residence time, specific to the Black Atlantic, lead us to a new reading of the Titanic’s wreck together with ever-churned-together...

.... Conceding that advocates and practitioners of recently proposed interpretive paradigms such as “surface reading,” “ordinary language criticism,” and “postcritique” are correct in pointing out that the symptomatic reading practices associated with the hermeneutics of suspicion have brought literary criticism...

... for radar echoes from the surface of the sea that scatter steady images of waves, to theorize how waves, for the people who study them, are always a mix of the empirical and the conceptual, the real and the represented. waves oceans abstraction reading ...

... the early ideas that would be developed, elaborated and re-elaborated in her later work. Issues of gender, history, culture an ethical/political choices surface, as well as the enmeshment of creative praxes and theoretical praxes. The essay thus pursues an analysis of this play focusing on the issues...

... and other close artist-friends, such as Herbert Gentry, are essential to reading his paintings not as indices of any form of social intimacy but as an intimacy borne of multisensory stimuli and affiliations and social exchanges embodied in the complexity of color. In the worked, dense chromatic surfaces...

...) and the eponymous short story from 1962 on which it was based. This chapter surfaces the real-life tragedy that inspired Sembène’s text and film, showing how La Noire de . . . has functioned as a “screen memory” (Sigmund Freud) that has both concealed and conserved traces of a real suicide buried in French...

... a sweeping move in the direction of republicanism, egalitarian opportunity, federalism, and secularism. As the readings in part IV illustrate, not until the last quarter of the century was peace and a modicum of conciliation achieved. Even then, social problems seethed beneath the surface of an entrenched...

... What new histories surface when photography begins underground? Chapter 1 turns to bitumen, the light-sensitive material in the first photograph taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. Taking as a case study Warren Cariou’s petrographs of the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada, the chapter...

... that the disconnect between the personal and the political, following her marriage, lies at the heart of her disquiet. This is why the two books cannot be read in the same register, though they are about the same life. Nevertheless, they become the spur for her writing and offer a clue to how she finally resolves her...

..., while Maximin’s novel splits open the monumental account of the collective suicide of Louis Delgrès and his followers in 1802. Both authors write directly into and against the colonial archive, clearing space for other voices and more complicated forms of resistance to surface. French Atlantic...

... rumor, and his reading of learned chroniclers. The city that emerges from his picaresque stories is inhabited by a remarkable cast, including warring parties of Basques and other Spanish immigrants; trapped Indian mineworkers rescued by a miraculous Virgin; an Indian social climber rebuffed...

... Delaney use images of light to put blues-sorrows into perspective. The chapter offers a new reading of Baldwin’s major short story “Sonny’s Blues” in the context of Delaney’s lessons to Baldwin as the latter matures as an author. The essay proposes a theory of reading visual art and literature...

... interiority, but through redefining vision as both visual and tactile. For Delaney, intimacy can be understood as an extension of seeing, and his relationships with James Baldwin and other close artist-friends, such as Herbert Gentry, are essential to reading his paintings not as indices of any form of social...