..., David. Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xi + 251 pp. Includes Index. ISBN 0-312-21260-7, $65.00. Differentiating his seminal The Literature of Terror from Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law, Punter terms this new work...

...Timothy Dow Adams Fuchs Miriam , The Text is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2004 . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Egan Susanna . Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary...

...Jonathan Culler © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 DESERT ISLAND TEXTS JONATHAN CULLER, CORNELL UNIVERSITY What is the most influential critical or theoretical text of the past couple of decades? This is a question which a specialist in literary theory ought...

... . London : Verso , 1990 . 94 - 102 . ISLAND AND ARCHIVE: FAVORITE CONTEMPORARY THEORY TEXTS VINCENT B. LEITCH, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Several years after it was published, my editor at Columbia University Press began encouraging me to do a follow up to my book American Literary...

... tragedy and modern realism, this essay offers a model for how texts “perform” their genres. The essay describes these literary speech-acts as “genre performatives,” which are smaller-order gestures, devices, and formal techniques that at once present and execute a text’s status as part of any given genre...

... 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...

... seduced and betrayed by Hollywood and its stars. This article argues that Puig's early texts, The Buenos Aires Affair , with its collection of Hollywood epigraphs, and Kiss of the Spider Woman , with its movie-obsessed protagonist, perform the very concept of queer movie fandom. What one sees in Puig's...

... to a lacuna within critical appraisals of Norman Mailer that has ignored what he meant by the collective novel. Much of the critical output remains concentrated on attempts to resolve the book's dominant generic problem: Is the text a novel or a history of the 1967 march to the Pentagon? What remains buried...

... and creative treatments of the historical novel. Robinson’s text shows that this scalar challenge is of particular importance to the contemporary moment and reconfigures how some of its major coordinates — the economy, the environment, the body, and narrative itself — cross the gap between micro and macro...

...Matthew John Phillips Following Henry James, literary-critical practices presume the autonomy and integrity of the literary text. The roman à clef meanwhile troubles this autonomy by presuming a transparent and concrete relation between text and world. By turning to the late nineteenth-century...

... “A Stroke of Good Fortune” (1955), these possibilities disrupt both a character's identity and what we might call the identity of an O'Connor text. Critics generally read the story as a failed attempt to portray the Catholic plea against, as O'Connor put it, the “rejection of life at the source...

... taxonomies of distorting the inherently indeterminate meanings of texts by imposing arbitrary restrictions, or “laws,” on our reading practices. This essay surveys the major objections to genre criticism lodged by its principal critics (especially Derrida) before introducing and advocating “trope theory...

...). It finishes by proposing a general model of Lacanian reading as “cut” rather than interpretation, that is, an analysis that does not seek to account for a text as a whole but, rather, to find the correct point at which to break into it. Peter Buse is associate dean for research in the Faculty of Arts...

... in the novelistic form, which is read as a complex cautionary tale about the erosion and challenges to those transnational aspirations of success and seamless transnational citizenship. In this manner, Blue White Red disempowers narratives that blindly valorize emigration, and the text serves as a kind of epistle...

... Chinese culture known? Understanding translation through Judith Butler’s “performativity,” the article looks critically both at Yu’s poems and the texts he parodies, in particular those by Gary Snyder and Ezra Pound, in the context of works by John Ashbery, the Language poets, Jonathan Stalling, and Eliot...

... regionalist writing. Depicted as living relics or belated leftovers from superseded cultural epochs, remnants, the essay claims, project the distinctly modern modalities of displacement and ontological insecurity into the regionalist texts they inhabit, thus unsettling the conventional critical readings...

...Jeremy Colangelo Although disability studies researchers have long recognized the interdependence of ability and disability as socially mediated categories, few studies have taken the next logical step of examining how ability is constructed and represented in literary texts. This article pursues...

...Bradley J. Fest In the twenty‐first century, digital technologies have made it possible for writers and artists to create massively unreadable works through computational and collaborative composition, what the author has elsewhere called megatexts . The ubiquity of texts appearing across media...

... texts enact critique through the resources of literary form. Generous reading interprets novels as critique. The final section presents summaries of each article's argument about exemplary big, ambitious novels. Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 This content is made freely available...

... with no need for a second counterpart text to draw cross-literary parallels. Written from a transpacific narratorial stance of a millennial Vancouver-based daughter of Chinese immigrants, the narrative communicates her secondhand knowledge about the traumatic twentieth-century history of the People's Republic...