... Cary . “ From Dead Meat to Glow in the Dark Bunnies: Seeing ‘the Animal Question’ in Contemporary Art .” Parallax 12.1 ( 2006 ): 95 - 109 . Robert McKay Animal Ethics and Literary Criticism (on Jacques Derrida’s The Animal That Therefore I Am [New York: Fordham UP, 2008...

... to read literary works for their great moral wisdom, and they fault literary scholars for ignoring this appeal and for failing to understand basic economics. But as this survey of recent publications demonstrates, the conjunction of these critiques is odd: literary critics have been skeptical of claims...

...Thom Dancer This essay reflects on the recent debates about the value (or lack of value) of symptomatic, deep, and critical reading in the context of the decline of the political doctrine of secularism. It aims to frame the literary critical questions about surface and depth, subjectivity...

... issues in contemporary method in literary criticism. It also addresses some of the debate about the concept and offers one revision. Additionally, the interview also surveys Marcus's influential work in comparative literature, notably on the spaces in fiction in French and English literature in her book...

... regarding close reading and “the New Criticism,” the movement associated with it, and at how the practice has figured in Anglo-American literary studies over the course of the past century. It turns then to how a certain idea of “close reading” has come to figure in the discourses of the digital humanities...

...Jason Berger This essay examines how Slavoj Žižek’s conception of fantasy may open up new approaches for political, literary, and aesthetic criticism. Taking In Defense of Lost Causes (2008) as a case study, I demonstrate how Žižek’s method provides a much-needed consideration of form. Moreover, I...

...Nidesh Lawtoo In this interview, J. Hillis Miller and Nidesh Lawtoo take one of the most influential concepts in Western aesthetics, mimēsis , as an Ariadne’s thread to retrace the major turns in Miller’s career and, by extension, to promote a re- turn of mimesis in literary theory and criticism...

... University Press . Greene Roland . 1991 . Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . ———. 1999 . “ The Lyric .” In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism , vol. 3 , edited by Norton Glyn P. , 216 – 28...

... and normalized by liberal-capitalist civilization, while those perceived to be exceptional are vehemently criticized. Yet what most thinkers had tried to occlude literary accounts of violence have unconcealed. At least this is one of the insights that emerges in the thought-provoking reflections found in Moira...

... national or linguistic insularity, they had the opposite effect: a cosmo- politan quality that I missed in most of the English departments I came to know. Watson  The audience for your work has included literary scholars, critical theorists, cultural critics, scientists, historians, analytic phi...

...Anna Ioanes In the wake of the linguistic turn, scholars have turned to affect and to aesthetics to account for textual experiences that exceed critical frameworks of representation and critique. Bringing formalist analysis and affect theory to bear on one another, recent works of literary, art...

... movements get founded was precisely the one I had raised in my book, and it returns in altered form here). On the one hand, we have a Marxist analysis that explains such cultural phenomena as critical movements through reference to their economic base (the corporate university and the logic of late...

...Henry Ivry As the Anthropocene has migrated from the life and physical sciences into the humanities as both a theoretical and material condition, there have been a growing number of critics who have critiqued the Anthropos of the Anthropo cene, arguing that the monolithic humanity imagined...

...Madigan Haley The novel has become a crucial interpretive site for global literary studies owing to its status as arguably the first, and most persistent, world genre. This essay marks a critical turn that coalesces around the problem of how to imagine the novel at the world scale. Recent...

...). Douglas Amy is not the only scholar to defend government from attack; a number of literary critics have taken up this task as well. The most recent is Bruce Robbins, and the subtitle of his Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), “Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State...

... writers, whether we define success as critical, popular, or commercial. This is simply not true, to the same degree, for men’s writings. It is important to acknowledge, then, that the writing of women’s literary history is old. But it is not old in some kind of “back in the day...

... [Riverhead Books, 2005]) Richard Powers' 1995 novel, Galatea 2.2, asks whether it is possible for a computer to simulate a literary critic. In trying to answer that question Powers explains what a book does to a brain, exploring the multiple calculations a brain makes to understand a simple...

... . Paris : Fayard , 1999 . Meryl Altman Why I Read (on Barbara Johnson, Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation [Harvard UP, 2003]) Who'd be a literary critic? The philosophers throw us out of the republic with the poets and other swampy-minded womanish...

... Stories and Mechanic Accents, both of which came out in 1987, were the product of those ten years of thinking about popular fiction, thinking that had begun as a project in Marxist literary criticism. That was my initial interest, to follow the models that Fred Jameson...

... of Rita Felski's assessment of feminist literary criticism, Literature After Feminism, elegantly sums up the point of her entire book: "Literature after feminism is an expanded field, not a diminished one" (169). Capaciousness, expansion, new horizons, breakthroughs, innovations—these words...