... . Devoney Looser Power Through Comics (on Lillian S. Robinson, Wonder Women: Feminisms and Super heroes [Routledge, 2004]) Those of us who know the work, now spanning three decades, of feminist and cultural critic Lillian S. Robinson may be surprised to find that her latest book...

... quiet. Sure enough, he was into Oscar’s comics. He looked up from the foot of the bed when I opened the door, his face getting red. He had big ears, a wide forehead, and a little chin pointing down. They’re so cute when they’re pups. “Ifinished my numbers,” he said. “Show me,” I said...

...Mike Casey © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Mike Casey Bagley's Sign Bagley's sign on the road near the monkey house the POW cage people put up a traffic sign prisoner crossing good ideas go wrong though started off comical...

...: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic . Translated by Brereton Cloudesley Rothwell Fred . London : Macmillan . Bourdillon Jennifer . 1956 . Visit to the Sherpas . London : Collins . Hardie Norman . 1957 . In Highest Nepal: Our Life among the Sherpas . London : Allen...

... people are happy with his version of the past, how he fes- toons the synapse hallway with plastic barrel monkeys and other childhood fictions. How much remembering is simply the snake swal- lowing itself.) II. If you want to see Nadine give up religion for comic books turn to page 93. III...

... and the utopian impulse to “posit other spaces” Merola  129 (2012, 134). Drawing on the distinction between tragic apocalyptic narratives, in which time is “predetermined and epochal,” and comic apocalyptic narratives, in which time is “open-ended...

... those he had in 1952 on comic books have only recently received acknowledgment as literary scholarship. As Fiedler’s popularity peaked in the 1960s and 70s, the brash critic focused inward to reflect on the impossibility of playing both the worldly wild child...

... Newsletter Interview . 1999 . About Writing . 299 - 310 . —. “ The Semiology of Silence .” 1983 . Silent Interviews . 21 - 58 . —. Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics . Hanover : Wesleyan UP , 1994 . —. Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language...

... delivery was comical, not malicious. I bent and spread. He said, “Therrrrre’s a happy face. Get dressed,” and walked out as I giggled to myself. 36 the minnesota review Cheri had legally become Cheri at some point in his life. He’s a young Puerto Rican pre-op...

... the Wellsian narrator calls the delight of words freshly and expressively grouped (Wells [1910] 2005: 114). In futureal one might hear both a futural and a real, but also the funereal : Wells s novel is, among other things, a marvelously comical and moving exploration of what Mr Polly, misremembering...

... films, though they are Loach Interview 95 not necessarily comic ones —​in Kes, for instance, the boy’s fate is com- pletely determined by the school and family, while a film like Family Life doubtless presents the family as an entirely malevolent force...

... for split-level ranches and collapsed barns, the odd trailer, silos that waved comically in the air like gigan- tic slinky toys. All of them lurching through the bracken, just going somewhere, onward, just to go, as though they’d been waiting the requisite decades to adjourn their duties...

..., that the transformative energies behind all this apocalyptic engineering were in some sense working on your behalf. Oscillating between the diabolical and the comic, the nineteenth- century Satan hinted that capitalism’s new spectacle might in the end offer “nothing more than the same...

... that in retrospect—like the Hopkins symposium— becomes a turning point, but it isn’t experienced like that at the time, only later does it seem a big deal. I remember some comic things about the Hopkins symposium, like how annoyed Lacan was that he’d been upstaged by Derrida. He was really...

... with the night sweats, fearing I missed my true calling as a failed comic writer. I ought to have been someone who published a satiric journal, then threw it over in self-disgust. On the other hand, I have to watch it, lest my tendency to crack wise interfere with my other aspiration...

... recognizes that "cognitive studies," as currently defined academically, precludes his particular interest in culture and "cultural studies" has embraced certain forms of popular culture faster than others. Films, for example, science fiction novels, and comics (graphic novels) have been embraced...

... been marked as disposable. More than an ethics grounded in the “feminist idea of female solidarity” (Bouson 2011, 22) or a “comic reworking of [Jimmy’s] tragic masculine perspective” (Watkins 2012, 132), this is an affirmation that if the post-Anthropocene (post) human is to resist...

... analytics must be seen as exposing the radical exteriority of experience. What marks the LSS as radical in its findings, based somewhat comically on the unexpected flood, concerns this advancement in synchronizing data gathering and analytics. The LSS thus is exactly where our nightmares...

... narratives? In which way does literature comment on human geologic impact concerning the characters, the role of the narrator, and the aesthetic structure? Which modes of narration (comic, tragic, ironic, didactic) are deployed to reflect on the challenges of the Anthropocene? 114 the minnesota...

... many predecessors, Marx included. After all, labor’s creativity needed to be recognized and then sharply excised by workers, since it was the very traitorous source of their exploiter’s power. As Marx noted, in a comic vein, economists like Nassau Senior are “so dominated by their fixed...