...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...

... 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...

...Gershun Avilez Throughout Black Aliveness , Quashie develops his ideas primarily through Black women writers, especially Morrison and Clifton, who appear across the chapters. He not only wants to argue for the significance of these writers; he also argues that it is through the Black female...

... 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...

..., 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...

..., 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...

..., borrowing Woolf's terms, I understand to mean literature's various love affairs and dalliances with other arts. Dynamic Form is composed of five main chapters, each of which takes up a different formal proposition or offers a revision of a different “formal orthodoxy” by pairing an author with an art...

... of our criticism in much the same way as Hogarth's practical formalism teaches ordinary viewers about the opportunities for losing themselves in the pleasure of seeing. The below passage from chapter 1 is paradigmatic. Zitin has just established British Enlightenment empiricism's skeptical epistemology...

... 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, Du Bois resides both at the center and, ghostlily, at the periphery, infusing the book entirely. This approach...

... (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...

...) 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... of practice, a form of making that makes material possible (5). The book unfolds in five chapters, the first of which, Literary Knowledge, describes how in spite of an overt caution about figurative language, literariness served a vital, definitional function in the textual rendering of early...

... 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 of statuary or an insect s form without projecting oneself onto one s object...

... does motivate criticism, or at the very least can drive the reading and the teaching of modernist poetry. McCabe's excellent chapter on Stein, the second chapter of her book and the first chapter on a particular writer, provides one of the best accounts of the relevance to her aesthetic...

... case studies, it is also arrestingly timely. In the chapter on “Milton's Storehouses,” Kadue offers a particularly revelatory corrective to Stanley Fish's reading of the passage in Areopagitica describing books preserved “as in a vial” as relics. Kadue points out that we might instead see...

... value and purpose” emerge from this process of generic normalization (127). For example, in one of my favorite chapters, Koenigs looks at Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Robert Montgomery Bird's Shepperd Lee and asks us to consider the difference between a novel and a literary...

... (Thien 2016 : iv). Thien's paratexts also include four epigraphs, two documentary photographic images, and fifty endnotes acknowledging her cited material. There are samples of Western (14) and Chinese “jianpu” (33) musical notation in chapter 1, as well as many Chinese words, in traditional...