...Bradley J. Fest This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses...

...Lindsay Waters In the twentieth century, criticism flourished in the academy in the English language from the 1930s to the 1960s, but gradually a hyperprofessionalized discourse purporting to be criticism took its place. The problem was exacerbated because people misunderstand literary theory...

...Jonathan Arac Joseph Frank (1918–2013) achieved fame as a literary scholar first with his three-part essay “Spatial Form in Modern Literature” (1945) and then with his five-volume critical biography Dostoevsky (1976–2002). This essay traces his career, emphasizing its divergence from the practices...

... homeland rather than the state. One result of this rethinking of the history of Chinese intellectuals is the emergence of 1957, the beginning of the Anti-Rightist Campaign, as a critical, and tragic, turning point for socialist theory and practice in China and throughout the world. References Cheng...

..., its own techne. In this respect, it would provide preparation for a projected sequence of courses including: (a) History and Taxonomy of Rhetoric (b) Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism (c) Theories of Grammar and their Application to Literary Studies (d...

..., often finding a home in comparative literature. 3 Many theory specialists remained committed to literary criticism—we can take the Yale School as an example—although the work of many theoretically minded critics did not remain within the canons of national literatures and languages or language...

... for an indigenous critical theory are copious. They started to be heard in the late 1980s and became a visible critical movement in the mid-1990s. In the first issue of Wenxue pinglun (Literary review) in 1997, the leading critical journal in China, for example, an entire section is devoted to the issue of how...

.... A. Judy is professor of critical and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches course in world literature, global English studies and literature, contemporary Arabic literature, as well as critical and literary theory. He is a member...

..., and artifacts alike. What follows is a case study of the effects that his version of the ‘‘unmasking turn of mind’’ had upon his critique of literary criticism and his explanation of literary texts such as Gustave Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale and Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘‘La Musique et les lettres...

... on eigh- teenth- and nineteenth-century­ literature and literary theory. She is currently at work on a book on the rise of mass education, to be called Designing Education, and on a brief history of reading and practical criticism in the Anglo-­American tradition. Patrick Jagoda is assistant...

... might the limits of current literary-critical historicisms be further brought to notice by a critical confrontation with Badiou's “inaesthetics”? Finally, how might the profound weaknesses of Badiou's own practices of reading open up alternative, materialist, and formalist frameworks to account both...

... literature, literary criticism, and critical theory. He has second- ary interests in African American literature, film studies, and Cold War studies. His Race, Ralph Ellison, and American Cold War Literature is forthcoming. He has pre- viously published in boundary 2 and has forthcoming essays in English...

... gained entry into the intellectual scene, appropri- ated by visual culture, literary criticism, political theory, history, and cul- tural studies. Yet the collection of his writings provides an impression that his piecemeal reception, allowed by the disparate contents of the writing, could not afford...

... to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant on December 21, 1916 (1981: 391). Bourne, a literary and cultural critic whose writings became among the most widely read and lasting of those pro- duced by the Young American intellectuals of the 1910s, referred in this instance to the ongoing disenfranchisement of post...

... Critique: Kant’s Writing as Critical Praxis (1994) and Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine (2004), and the editor of the collected works by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt (1993 He is currently working on a book on Heine and critical theory. 280 boundary 2 / Summer 2004 Stathis...

... write like, would be Perry Anderson. He can be very impressive, writing on international political economy and the history of social and political theory, and he has had an interesting career. I suppose I have something in com- mon with both of those very different cases, of the literary critic...

... that is, practically speaking, necessary but also problematic. Another way that lit- erary studies maintains the stylistic status quo is by holding the canon of literary theory—a veritable hootenanny of rhetorical and poetic play that in Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (Tuscaloosa: University...

..., literary criticism, and critical theory. He has secondary interests in African American literature, film studies, and Cold War studies. Henry Veggian’s primary interests are twentieth-­century American literatures, with an emphasis on postmodernism and the American novel. Publications and works...

... solve our minority ethnic group problem in the Soviet breakup model Venturino / Inquiring After Theory in China 103 ishment handed down to the Tibetan literary critic, journal editor, and poet Woeser (the Chinese transliteration is Weise), for publishing...

... solve our minority ethnic group problem in the Soviet breakup model Venturino / Inquiring After Theory in China 103 ishment handed down to the Tibetan literary critic, journal editor, and poet Woeser (the Chinese transliteration is Weise), for publishing...