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... in the critical discourse, the author uses Northrup Frye's definition of “the central principal of ironic myth” as a “parody of romance,” Mikhail M. Bakhtin's discussions of the grotesque and parody as “an integral element in Menippean satire and in all carnivalized genres,” and Charles A. Knight's chapters...

...Sabrina Ovan This article provides a comparative reading of “ Las Meninas ,” Michel Foucault's opening essay in The Order of Things , and the historical novel Q , written by the Italian collective known as Luther Blissett. Foucault's opening chapter, a close reading of Diego Velázquez's 1656...

.... Quashie insists that it is always a plurality in terms of the experience of it as well as the traditions that provide insight into it. The aliveness he elaborates over five chapters is a theory of heterogeneity, plurality, and freedom made possible through multidirectional struggle. The precise...

... interested in the overlap between commercial life and literary culture in the early modern period and beyond. As England's economy expanded overseas, so did the reach of English writing. Accordingly, the final chapter turns from the national to the international literary market. Here, Werlin traces...

... to explore the relationship between early modern literature—and especially seventeenth-century devotional verse—and the post-Reformation church. Comprising a substantial introduction, chapters on John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton, and a coda on Thomas Traherne, it is an impressive...

..., Harrison remarks on Locke's opposition both to “the fictions produced by the imagination” and to “figurative language itself” (25). But as chapter 5 makes beautifully apparent, Locke also mined the resources of language to accomplish particular persuasive effects, “philosophizing in the subjunctive” (240...

... is the eponymous Alice, subject of the book's first chapter, which follows Carroll's protagonist through the deconstructions of identity that unfold in Wonderland. Beginning with Alice's loss of her name in Through the Looking Glass , Chatterjee shows how self-estrangement empowers Alice to discover new...

..., one chapter gives a more standard take on the Kash- miri conflict, followed by a chapter that discusses the cultural relevance of the Sufi saint and poet Lalla-­Ded. The connection between the two chapters is subtle. Khan connects the political revolutionary concept of Kashmiriyat (Sheikh Abdul...

... chapter gives a more standard take on the Kash- miri conflict, followed by a chapter that discusses the cultural relevance of the Sufi saint and poet Lalla-­Ded. The connection between the two chapters is subtle. Khan connects the political revolutionary concept of Kashmiriyat (Sheikh Abdul- lah’s...

... chapter, “Protean Form: Erotic Abstraction and Ardent Futurity in the Poetry of Mina Loy,” which troubles modernist teleologies that see untethered abstraction as the apex of pure form. Loy's abstractions, shaped by Constantin Brancusi's sculptures, seek foundation and base physicality instead, muddying...

.... Du Bois's self-proclaimed turn from statistics to agitprop followed his shock upon hearing that lynching victim Sam Hose's body parts were exhibited in a nearby butcher shop after his murder. Womack insists that “this is not expressly a book about Du Bois, but he haunts every chapter” (29). Indeed...

... to place the complex temporal forms imagined by his primary texts, forms that other scholars might be tempted to describe using modern terminology—maybe from the “new time studies”—that would launder their true connection to enlightenment theories of progress. Chapter 1 establishes the eighteenth...

... sixteenth century. “Stage talk,” for instance (the subject of chapter 1), emerges from Christopher Marlowe's much-imitated Tamburlaine as a style affording distance between speaker and hearer, thus providing playgoers with a “compellingly theatrical model of publicness” (58). “Love talk,” the subject...

... that appear across the book's five chapters. The argument of each chapter is equally clear and intricate, and for this reader, productive of pleasures akin to those of visual intricacy as described by Hogarth. Zitin's first chapter offers British Enlightenment empiricism and its skeptical focus...

... (and the communities they circulate within) for extinction, that nevertheless preserve a capacity to scale into a world beyond the forms of power that stand behind the targeting (16). Garcia s insistence, throughout these six chapters, that our interpretive frame- works have made lively literary matter appear...

... development as an essentially pedagogical one. Novels become what they are, Bartoszyńska suggests, by training readers to become novel readers. This idea features most prominently in the second chapter, although echoes of varying intensity are traceable in other chapters as well. Discussing Potocki...

...) could benefit. After having briefly discussed Goethe's contribution to the genre with Wilhelm Meister in an initial chapter geared to an Anglophone audience, Jef- fers proceeds to trace the origins of the idea of Bildung, both in its development as specifically German in Schiller's work...

... categorize (in another instance of ret- rospective labeling) as novels. Thus, chapters on theorists of the picturesque (such as Gilpin, Price, and Knight); on theorists representing both sides of the debate regarding the relations between poetry and painting (such as Lessing and Kames); and on Hume's...

... technique of ekphrasis (a vivid description of a thing) is practiced precisely in order to blur the line between observer and observed. Eisendrath s introductory first chapter locates us amid a rise in the scientific and antiquarian art of empirical description. The ability to observe an ancient piece...

... some new understanding out of texts that are thought to offer something of value are more compelling than the chapters that thoroughly dismantle texts that get it wrong. The monograph ends with its most important reading, of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2018). This “strong form” of near...