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... corollaries to Wilde's, illustrating that contemporary audiences understood Wilde's and Strauss's projects as compatible and complementary rather than divergent, as later scholars have argued. At a time when the relationship between the symbolist-decadent and modernist aesthetics was very much in flux...

... of the tradition, but rather than move toward hope, in the manner of most earlier texts, it ends with Seward’s melancholy recognition of her own weakness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 “Fears in Solitude,” which also retains some features of the tradition, is a sustained reflection on the individual’s limited...

... happens to a literary work when it is read online rather than in print? I have little but grateful thanks for Zhu’s essay about my influence in China. I had not known anything about the controversy in China in response to my “end of literature” essay. Now I know a lot about it. Zhu’s essay, moreover...

... novel offers a model of circulation that emphasizes coagulation and stasis rather than liquidity, mobility, and flows. This model explains how texts repeat while altering preexisting forms of circulation, which has consequences for understanding how reading publics arise and reproduce themselves...

... the pressure of anticommunism. The 1940s work of Muriel Rukeyser, turning away from an earlier documentary poetics, exemplifies her generation’s concern with the continuity between the Popular Front and World War II rather than a retreat from New Deal reform to patriotic consensus. During this understudied...

...Sophus Helle Abstract Premodern sources mainly depict authors as textual transmitters rather than original creators. To treat these figurations of authorship as meaningful in their own right, one has to overcome a series of methodological hurdles. The polarized image of the author as either...

...Loren Cressler Abstract What are the consequences of reading Shakespeare’s allusions to classical heroes through vernacular adaptations rather than through classical texts? This essay reframes the debate about which classical sources Shakespeare consulted, arguing that he encountered Aeneas...

... and federal law. Rather than simply dismiss these right-wing appeals to resistance theory as unscholarly and anachronistic, the essay argues that we must take them seriously as an uncomfortable part of this theory’s legacy. References Allen Jake . 2021 . “ Collier Commissioners Set to Vote on Bill...

... practices, and it is those practices that emerge over time. The article then recasts the interest in the early novel’s fictionality shown by Catherine Gallagher and others as a problem of practices rather than of concepts. It tracks trends in subject matter and assertions of literal truth through...

... their protagonists and undermine the typological assumptions of much realist fiction. The essay suggests that, rather than read these developments as evidence of a formal rupture between modernism and realism, we view Bleak House , Ulysses , and The Wire as playing a role in an understudied tradition of “population...

... logic that treats religion as a universal cultural phenomenon that corresponds to national and aesthetic characteristics. A promising alternative is a “connective” rather than a comparativist approach, which entails emphasizing the historical formation of religious practices in cultural exchange...

... in time rather than across classes of persons, thus transforming idling from a characterological deficiency into a periodic respite that is necessary for all and that all are entitled to. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 idling leisure irony point of view...

... Le’s “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” deploy description to unsettle detail’s objectifying effects. Their authors invent techniques of deploying racist and exotic details to reveal how the logic of liberal multiculturalism and diversity rather than the aesthetics...

... Live under a Black Sun (1937), two counter-Enlightenment texts that draw their found content and characters from the Age of Pope and Swift. It argues that reappropriating eccentricity as a badge of creativity rather than a label for dismissal allows Sitwell to explore more capacious models of pleasure...

... the job of a character is to individuate. The comic rather than tragic historiography of the formalist account makes it slightly preferable to the antiformalist one. The essay's archive is intended to be comprehensive and includes representative examples from poems, novels, plays, comic books, and works...

... of everything that has been lost and forgotten on the earth's surface; and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1914 words-in-freedom epic, Zang Tumb Tumb , in which commercial inventories are used as overlays to explode (rather than preserve) memories. Jeffrey T. Schnapp's latest publications are SPEED limits...

... to abandon. Yet in the context of the seventeenth century, such gestures were associated with modernity rather than the opposite. This essay reinterprets the significance of authorial modesty by analyzing this disconnect, which calls attention less to the changing strategies of writers than to the evolving...

..., or reclaiming it as an intrinsic rather than extrinsic element of modernity. Adam Barrows is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University. He is author of The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature (2011) and was awarded the 2010...

.... Rather, these categories constituted different ways of thinking about time, place, and identity. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA . His most recent book is Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011). © 2012 by University...

.... Everything is subject to understanding, via dialogue rather than intuition, and with continued alertness to the unthought within each culture. François Jullien holds the Chaire sur l’Altérité at the Collège d’Études Mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. He is author of thirty books...