..., whose work spans literature as cultural production and practical political mobilization, might provide a more useful politics of reading and writing. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 decolonization John Guillory Antonio Gramsci antiapartheid...

... Luiselli's role as primary narrator summons the gentle debate among scholars studying audiobooks about authors reading their own work: David Sheinberg ( 2019 : 330) argues, for example, that an autobiography narrated by someone other than the author “seems . . . to be missing the point,” whereas William...

...: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry . London : Methuen . “The Pitch of the Dawn”: Reading Lyric in Jorie Graham’s Aubades FIONA GREEN, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE At the beginning of Great Expectations, Dickens’s Pip remembers trying to make sense of things before he could read...

... to be “really understood”; the early essay, which I revisit in its published form and through notes and drafts, makes an argument about difficult writing itself: that it can demand not just intellectual but affective response. Ashbery calls attention to a poetics of intimacy in Stanzas and reads its grand...

...Maurizio Ascari Does Franco Moretti's notion of “distant reading” really provide a liberating and democratic approach to literature, as it promises? Far from opening new perspectives, distant reading may actually blunt our critical faculties, inviting us to inadvertently adopt biased views...

...Grady C. Wray COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 WORKS CITED/CONSULTED Cixous Helene . Reading with Clarice Lispector . Ed. and trans. Conley Verena Andermatt . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1990 . Fitz Earl E. Clarice Lispector...

...Fiona McWilliam This essay seeks to rectify an ongoing problem in scholarship on Katherine Anne Porter. Porter's short story “He,” a key and often-anthologized text, is being read in a revised version without attention to those revisions or the story's original context, the October 1927 issue...

...Nathan K. Hensley This article on temporality, reading, and narrative form shows how George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss stretches on the affordances of the novel to highlight the tension between structure and flow that characterizes any act of textual analysis. This tension within readerly method...

... . ---. The Sublime Object of Ideology . New York : Verso , 1989 . Print . Zupancic Alenka . Ethics of the Real . New York : Verso , 2000 . Print . JES GREW, THE HOLY GRAIL, AND THE DESIRE FOR A METANARRATIVE TO BELIEVE: READING ISHMAEL REED'S MUMBO JUMBO AS A HISTORICAL THRILLER...

... . Diepeveen Leonard . “ Reading Nonsense: The Experience of Contemporary Poetry .” Genre 24 ( 1991 ): 25 - 43 . Hayles N. Katherine . “ Chance Operations: Cagean Paradox and Contemporary Science .” John Cage: Composed in America . Ed. Perloff Marjorie Junkerman Charles . Chicago...

...Luke Carson; Heather Cass White Because for us “learning to read” is synonymous with “learning to read poetry,” we framed this issue of Genre with that one generic restriction. We invited our contributors to discuss the idea of “learning to read” with reference either to a critic who has or should...

... reading of the film in relation to his other interventions on cinema, which are scattered throughout his seminars and are more numerous and heterogeneous than generally assumed, drawing especially on cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The article shows how Lacan's analysis of Never on Sunday...

... and critique is referenced in order to recommend the issue's articles as models of an intermediate approach: generous reading. Described as an affirmative mode of interpretation that matches the tenor of postcritique, generous reading retains the central importance of critique by attending to the ways in which...

...Ellen Levy Levy's chosen model for how to read poems is not a literary critic but an art historian, T. J. Clark. Why? To some extent, the author is following a more generalized “visual turn” in literary studies. But Clark is also a skilled and devoted close reader who, like many in literature...

... and 1950s. This essay proposes a different reading of clichés by focusing on artists who approach the cliché not with grimness but with fascination. Raymond Roussel, Marcel Duchamp, and John Ashbery recognized the cliché's constitutive function in modern culture; its ties to print, photography...

...Robert Baker This essay presents a close reading of C. D. Wright's Deepstep Come Shining . One of the great book-length poems published in America over the last few decades, this poem gathers the strengths of Wright's earlier books while at the same time inventing the sort of roving collage...

...Timothy Wientzen This article argues for the centrality of ideas of automatism and habit within the political and aesthetic life of literary modernism. D. H. Lawrence's characteristic interest in the raptures of sexuality and corporality are read in relation to shifts in the nature of political...

... The Wire in a long tradition of representing slavery that can further inform our reading of the program's interrogation of early twenty-first-century American life, cultures, and literary traditions. Read in the context of two modes of representing slavery in particular—the African American slave narrative...

... late fiction, a countercurrent the article reads in terms of Jamesian camp. Combining the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser with recent work in affect theory—specifically Sianne Ngai’s work on tone—the article offers readings of James’s The Sacred Fount (1901) and The Golden Bowl (1904) in terms...

... identifies three distinct modalities of the new opioid novel, paying particular attention to the ways these texts think through the causality of the opioid epidemic. First, some texts (novels from Julie Bunton, Brian Allen Carr, Cheryl Reed, and Jennifer Weiner), which read like detective fiction, take...