... to Postcolonial Literary Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2004 . Loomba Ania . Postcolonial Studies and Beyond . Durham : Duke UP , 2005 . MacPhee Graham Podder Prem . Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective . New York : Berghahn Books , 2007 . Marx...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith The article is concerned with the history of “close reading,” understood as a practice crucial to the field of literary studies, vis-à-vis “distant reading,” a range of computational methods identified with the digital humanities. It looks at some early controversies...

... whitewashes the asymmetric inequities of the humans of humanity. While much of this work has advocated for a dismissal of the Anthropocene concept, this article traces an alternate trajectory that has begun to emerge at the juncture of Black studies and literary theory. In this article, the author considers...

... of literary texts pertaining to world literature, the genre of Utopia, and beyond. Furthermore, it also engages in a highly stimulating discussion on the postcolonial possibilities of literary “mapping” practices and the transdisciplinary scope of spatial literary studies. [email protected]...

...Anna Poletti This article considers zine making as a form of independent literary production that can offer new insights into the understanding of creativity in literary studies and the humanities more broadly. It situates zines as a form of literary writing, reading, and distribution that cannot...

... capitalism), and on the other, an approach that uses the tools of literary analysis, including attention to form, genre, and group formation. I argue for the superiority of the latter and advance the view that we in literary studies should use, confidently and aggressively, the tools of our own discipline...

... in the Apology ), the essay argues that defending the humanities as good leads to unacceptable conclusions. In the realm of literary studies, these take the form of exclusions of the kind (though not necessarily the degree) that Socrates models in the Republic . Any such censorship is unacceptable not because...

...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...

...? These studies trace this anxiety through the mid-century decades in which the dream of the Old Left met the fantasy of the new class. Old Left, New Class: Literary Anxiety in the Consumers’ Republic . (on Schryer Stephen ., Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War...

...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...

... Literary and Cultural Studies 4 , nos. 3–4 : 221 – 43 . Reddy Vanita . 2016 . Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Rofheart Mahriana . 2013 . Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese...

... to locate their object of study by identifying what other literary genres and forms of com- munication cannot do.1 Succinctly defined in 1957 by M. H. Abrams as “any fairly short, non-narrative poem presenting a single speaker who expresses a state of mind or a process of thought and feeling...

... by Frederick Crews, in which he views the "New Americanist" as a term of art that differentiates scholarship in the field deviating from the assumptions that had organized what I called the "field-imaginary" of American literary studies. This term of art was deployed not in order to welcome a renewal...

... Literature and Literary Theory, and was named University Professor in 1981. In the late 1970s, Smith began working on theoretical problems of value and evaluation, the focus of a year spent at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sci- ences at Stanford and another year at the Institute...

... one. Approaches in the environmental humanities that hope to do justice to the Anthropocene will have to respect this novel notion of writing. In his 2007 study Ecology without Nature, for instance, the literary critic Timothy Morton coined the term “ecomimesis” to describe the pervasive...

... Literature Studies 54 , no. 2 : 482 – 85 . Anjaria Ulka . 2012 . Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Asian American Writers’ Workshop . 2017 . “ AAWWTV: Surreal Lives with Alex Kleeman, Deepak...

.../nonnative distinction as expressed in the experiences of postcolonial writers as well as of teachers and learners of English. Literary authors discussed include Amitav Ghosh, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Michael Harnett. Case studies from the English-as-a-second-language classroom are borrowed from the fields...

... the disparities between individual works and social structures in their eagerness to nail down political meanings. The model of articulation, well known in cultural if not in literary studies, redeems such trespasses by allowing us to do justice to the contingency, mutability, and many-sidedness...

..., and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies . Durham : Duke UP , 1989 . ---. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1995 . Kant Immanuel . The Critique of Pure Reason . 1787. Trans. and ed. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood...

... the American obsession with “scientific criticism.” The struggle was over defining the role of criticism, particularly compared to the social sciences, and the place of literary study in the university. Reading them now, an overarching sense that the credos give is of a thriving, serious...