... ); and Vermule Blakey , Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2010 ). Cited in the text as RB, NI, and WWC, respectively. On the Cognitive Turn in Literary Studies michelle ty A review of Stanislas Dehaene, Reading in the Brain (New York...

...Steve Evans Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 "A WORLD UNSUSPECTED": THE DYNAMICS OF LITERARY CHANGE IN HEGEL, BOURDIEU, AND ADORNO Steve Evans The problematic of literary change has engaged every generation of writers and critics since the German Romantics at the turn...

...Alya Ansari Abstract This essay foregrounds the hermeneutic purchase of totality in contemporary literary criticism. Responding to the recent proliferation of the “gig work” novel, the essay takes up two interrelated lines of inquiry: How might we rethink the conceptual affordances of “totality...

...Roy Chan Abstract Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–89) is best known for his utopian realist novel What Is to Be Done? (1863). However, he was perhaps most celebrated as a literary thinker in China as a result of the Soviet canonization of the nineteenth-century “democratic critics.” This essay...

...Jack W. Chen Abstract This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What...

... of literary production for Clifton and Jordan, as part of the way they privilege the creative world their mothers produced for them. fury maternal retrieval black feminism Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change. Audre Lorde “Remember this,” Lucille Clifton’s...

... to totality but (via Bataille’s dialogue with Alexandre Kojève) his action-centered framing of the movement of history and the character of actuality. Against the dialectical mastery of history, Bataille seeks to articulate an unpolitical image of sovereignty and play that is ultimately poetic or literary...

...Jan Mieszkowski Abstract Tracing a trajectory of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient atomists to the late twentieth century, this essay explores the surprisingly consistent role that dust has played in the conceptualization of language. In Lucretius, Sophocles, and the New Testament...

... in the ontologically inflected interpretations of Ugrešić’s work. Instead of valorizing exile as a desirable, paradigmatically human condition, this article shows Ugrešić breaking with exilic literary and theoretical conventions by advancing the possibility of a return to what she calls “retro-utopia”—a place glimpsed...

...Kyle Baasch Abstract Cultural and literary critics have begun to abandon a long-standing commitment to poststructuralist and deconstructive interpretative methods in favor of an ostensibly Marxist aspiration to comprehend cultural phenomena as symptomatic expressions of a social totality...

...Bruno Penteado Abstract Recent developments in literary studies that can be grouped under the umbrella term postcritique purport to restore, in our disciplinary practices, attention to affect, pleasure, and attachment, which postcritics believe the critical tradition has silenced and neglected...

... Board, Qui Parle 2024 In 2023 a man named Dan published a book about publishing. This book’s opening scene, set in the early 1990s and rendered in the careful style of much contemporary realism, introduces us to a publishing insider who occupies the center of a literary network—editors, writers...

...- papers), our managers respond with a new battery of assessments, and everybody seems satisfi ed. Everybody but us, the assessed, such tragic fi gures—and much more tragic are those among the assessed who happen to belong to the diffi cult-to-assess discipline of literary studies.1 No matter how much...

... in The Canterbury Tales : The Monk as Literary Theorist .” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49 , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 7 – 31 . Karnes Michelle . “ The Possibilities of Medieval Fiction .” New Literary History 51 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 209 – 20 . Lorden Jennifer . “ Tale and Parable...

...- duction (and I refer specifi cally to those arts that modernity has habituated us not to see as public performances— notably litera- ture and the visual arts, painting and sculpture) massively invests in public spaces, as in the case of performances in the literary fi eld...

...- Srinivasan: Divisions of Labor 245 cale Casanova’s world- systems- theory- inspired “literary geopolitics,” the generalist-specialist negotiation of translated literatures advocat- ed by David Damrosch, Wai Chee Dimock’s counter- Andersonian “literature for the planet,” Eric Hayot’s enumeration...

... the choice of basic rubric has been challenged, by me among others.3 Ursula Heise rightly observes that “ecocriticism has imposed itself as convenient shorthand for what some critics prefer to call en- vironmental criticism, [or] literary-environmental studies, [or] lit- erary ecology...

...Marjorie Perloff Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 The Decay of a Discipline Refl ections on the English Department Today marjorie perloff In 1999, when I fi rst addressed the “Crisis in the Humanities,” I was still optimistic about the future of literary studies.1 The rap- id...

... collapsing on its surface, its own place — ? — Leslie Scalapino, New Time The essays presented here are, in related ways, investigations of the poetics of the new, researches into the literary and cultural status of new meaning...

... than not taken as pejoratives in academic discourse, particularly in theory cultures. As Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, Amanda Anderson is sharply aware that the affiliation liberal in literary studies and the humanities can today be as risky a critical...