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...Dorothea Heitsch Pinkus Karen , Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Book Reviews bryan hull, portland community college Nyla Ali Khan, Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir...

...Anthony Ossa-Richardson [email protected] Elizabeth S. Anker , On Paradox: The Claims of Theory , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 In one of the most widely memefied moments of modern British comedy...

...Steven Salaita Clark Steve , ed. Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit . New York : Zed , 1999 . 264 pp. © COPYRIGHT 1999 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 1999 Ideology and Inscription: "Cultural Studies" after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen...

...: A Theory of Poetry . New York : Oxford UP , 1973 . Foucault Michel . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Trans. Sheridan Alan . New York : Vintage , 1979 . Gilbert Sandra M. Gubar Susan . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century...

...Wesley Beal COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 WORKS CITED Benjamin Walter . The Arcades Project . Trans. Eiland Howard McLaughlin Kevin . Ed. Tiedemann Rolf . 1982 . Cambridge, MA : Belknap of Harvard UP , 2004 . Conspiracy Theory . Dir...

...Katie Owens-Murphy Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies as a theory and methodology has never quite recovered from the opposition of Jacques Derrida, whose well-known essay “The Law of Genre” (1980) accused literary...

... examples we have of deconstruction as a mode of interpretation. Whatever complications Fish has added to his theory, in the end he will say that the text gives nothing whatsoever; it is absolutely empty to the interpretation. Therefore it is free, even though the freedom may be constrained either...

... who are searching for a thoughtful conversation with the most recent updates in theories of world literature, such as Pheng Cheah's What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature . Bartoszyńska's project boldly renounces both the telos of realism and the search for sociohistorical...

..., and trees from evolutionary theory), he actually uses them to support theories that lack proper verification, incurring the danger of bending reality to theory. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited Allison Sarah Heuser Ryan Jockers Matthew Moretti Franco Witmore...

... on psychological interiority as the defining criterion for humanlike mimesis. It proposes that we instead look to an alternative theory of seeming human, one based on repetition and routine. Cybernetics, an early form of artificial intelligence, provides a theory of developmental time through the feedback loop...

....” This article argues that this freighted figure of inversion obscures the theories of embodiment found in sexological case studies themselves, which ground the experience of sex in sociality and sensation. The sexological invert provides the foundation for a trans feminine stock character that modernist novels...

...Gretchen Braun Abstract The interim between Darwin's first publication of the theory of natural selection ( The Origin of Species , 1859) and his extended application of it to human development ( The Descent of Man , 1871) corresponds with the reign of sensation fiction, a genre built upon older...

...Daniel Darvay This article argues that Virginia Woolf's theory and practice of the novel extends key elements of the gothic sublime shared by nineteenth-century sensation fiction and by contemporaneous psychiatric methods of diagnosis. In novels such as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Mary...

... the return of religion in its more public forms in recent decades, any more than one could have foreseen the great reopening of the question of secularization within social theory since 1990. If, as I argue, the complete eradication of religious thought, which is to say a “finished” project of secularization...

...Elizabeth Covington The genre of the circadian or one-day novel, of which James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are the most famous examples, relies on John Locke's theory of individual identity composed of memories over time. The modernist writer and critic Storm...

... contributes to the articulation of a theory of comedy in The Ethics of Psychoanalysis , a seminar best known for its treatment of Antigone and tragic drama. It then locates this theory of comedy and reading of Never on Sunday in relation to key concepts of the Ethics such as jouissance and the moral good(s...

... on the part of those who feel targeted (or offended) by its referential finger-pointing and nose thumbing, as with the murders on January 7, 2015, of twelve people at the satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Drawing on satire theories from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this essay asks...

... of sensory input, and modifies it, using ideas that belong to comic theory and to seventeenth-century philosophies of the passions. His literary criticism thus reveals the way the self depicted in Jonsonian comedy, driven historically by the humors, gives way to a new, imitative model of the self driven more...

... 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...

..., Lost Children Archive highlights the absences of refugee voices, attends to the histories of violence that have led to their disappearance, and refuses to posit an answer to how the story of the crisis ends. This analysis reroutes theories of the big, ambitious novel through discussions of archival...