... and explores how Trump thereby captured elite, corporate, and white supremacist attention. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 New Americanists US literary criticism American studies Donald Trump References American Studies Association . 2016 . “ Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson...

... perspicuous. At a time when prominent literary critics such as Wai Chee Dimock, Lawrence Buell, and Jonathan Arac have called on humanists to think about Ameri- can writing within radically expanded spatial and historical horizons, US 2. Horace Engdahl, “The Nobel Prize: Dawn of a New Canon accessed...

... and variegated oeuvre among critics highlights a pervasive and troubling provincialism afflicting this supposedly global moment in world cultural history. Using Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn , the author links the emergence of “distant” modes of reading to drone warfare and concludes by calling for greater...

..., a text that has provoked literally thousands of critical interventions.35 While it is by now impossible to pro- he used only a part of his first lecture for the third section of the book, so when Jacobs talks about his second lecture in Zurich (2015: 87), she actually refers to the third lec- ture...

.... It argues that for most postcolonial literatures or literatures from emergent literary spaces (to use Pascale Casanova's term), literary value inheres as much in the teachability of the text as in whatever other aesthetic qualities it may possess. This means that the text's ability to illustrate, rework...

...Herman Rapaport This essay speaks to two New Critical taboos generally held by literary critics, whatever their training. The first concerns the poet's use of a preestablished referent that functions as a sentimental attachment that carries the poem along. This is usually considered a form...

..., it explores the relationship between literature and protests from a relatively broad perspective in an attempt to delineate the poetry of protest. Second, it discusses how Taiwanese poets used poetry to express their dissent when faced with varying social issues in different eras. The overall aim...

... of modern- 8. Lu Xun s story The Story of Ah Q is one outstanding example of this critical heritage. At the time, the literary master declared the Chinese Revolution politically ineffective. He exclaimed, I feel that I used to be a slave before the [1911] revolution. Not long after the revolution I...

... to mark the break with the Romanovs and to register the establishment of a “secular” plurilingual social order separate from that of the Russian Future(s) of Criticism—I / Ertürk / Toward a Literary Communism 187 ing Turkic languages in the Soviet Union in 1929 and remained in use until...

...Jeffrey J. Williams “American Literature in the World” is an interview with the literary critic Wai Chee Dimock, in which she discusses her efforts to extend the field of American literature, over time and to various continents, for instance seeing the use of the ancient epic Gilgamesh...

... / Criticism and Society 155 a moment that, for us, both symbolizes and evidences the pain and violence China experienced in the process of inventing its modern literary identity in the early twentieth century. The tragedy took place at the Summer Palace, the famous but ominous imperial summer...

..., or even 14. Arac, Critical Genealogies, 49. Fest / b2 Interview with Jonathan Arac 35 of American literature, but rather to use what one might call the “perspec- tive” of literary history as a way of addressing specific questions that arise for me, either...

... is to succeed, he must provide us with a reliable means of distinguishing between the delusional and self-critical tendencies of historical process. To put this in his idiom, we need the analytical tools that would allow us to bring the forms of thought engendered by the aesthetic object back...

...” that occupy our network visualizations, yet somewhat less visible broker fig- ures significantly populate the literary field, particularly as the field grows more complex in the 1920s. Here we zoom in upon a critical year, 1924– 25, in the expansion of US modernism (Figure 5). We flag two broker fig...

... the critical humanities. Two other developments threaten not only the priority but also the existence of criticism. One is Distant Reading, associated with Franco Moretti but now developed far beyond his original ideas, about which skeptics and defenders have said perhaps too much. 19 Let us disentangle...

..., within literary studies and linguistics, to start promising investiga- tions about the future of reading. Reader response theories, as they used to come in different posi- tions and academic brands during their moment of academic glory in the 1970s, do not help here because, independent...

... an obvious question: What are we to make of this intensely stylized form of critical address defined, to use one of Jarratt’s character- izations of the sophist discourse, by “the primacy of human knowledge, possibilities for non-rational and emotional responses to the whole range...

... critical in their methods. The claim that literary examples are especially good at prompting moral reflection most often describes the use of scenarios from canoni- cal works of European literature, whose situational and psychological rich- ness assists the philosopher in crossing the gap...

...,” uses the idea of the checkpoint (as mainly exemplified in the paradoxical crossing points between Israel and Palestine) to criticize the “porous borders” model of Comparative Literature represented by Wai Chee Dimock. The “idea of fluid borders—concretized by NAFTA, Shengen, the Eurozone...

... of music) offers an alternative view of the ontology of literature, without falling back into the long-frustrated attempts to “define literature.” Many (if not all) of the texts that we call “literary” provide us with exactly this impression of “being wrapped” into the material world—a material world...