...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...

... 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...

...Janell Watson In this interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, known for her important contributions to literary theory and for an unusual interdisciplinary career, interviewer Janell Watson gives a brief account of Smith’s early interests in philosophy and science, her career as a teacher...

...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...

... in current literary discourse, as well as with European theories of poetic subjectivity and community. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Works Cited Abrams M. H. ( 1957 ) 1971 . A Glossary of Literary Terms . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston . Adorno Theodor . 1974 . “ Lyric...

... . 2011 . “ ‘Terminal Crisis?’ From the Worlding of American Literature to World-System Literature .” American Literary History 23 ( 3 ): 643 – 59 . Moretti Franco . 2011 . “ World-Systems Analysis, Evolutionary Theory, Weltliteratur .” In Palumbo-Liu, Robbins, and Tanoukhi, Immanuel...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Jeffrey J. Williams The Clarity of Theory: An Interview with Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler is a leading expositor of contemporary literary theory. His book, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics...

...Tobias Boes; Kate Marshall This introduction to the focus section on “Writing the Anthropocene” examines the challenges that the entry of our species into a new geological epoch poses for the humanities in general and for literary and media theory in particular. It proposes the hypothesis...

... mentioned, is that I wanted the book to be used as a textbook. I am not saying that in a negative sense; there was also something useful about reorganizing feminist literary theory in terms of these topoi, because, as you say, in one way they are familiar, but they are not usually the way in which...

... of personal belief to acknowledged authorities and third-person sources. Literary theory prides itself on its antinomian and anti- authoritarian spirit yet often accentuates such deference, as if multiplying citations of Foucault or Zizek will bestow a cast-iron legitimacy...

... of the growth it has experienced since the late 1980s. Scholarship from that period fused the then-rapid developments in feminist literary theory with historicisms, old and new. Women’s literary historicism has been punctuated by watershed moments, if not full-blown...

... concerns. They got things backwards. This became the opening pages of my book, an unabashed credo, Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (1992), arguing a handful of positions on perennial literary topics consistent with a cultural studies informed by poststructuralism...

... Erwin . 1959 . Meaning in the Visual Arts . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Pinkus Karen . 2008 . “ On Cars, Climate, and Literary Theory .” Technology and Culture 49 ( 4 ): 1002 – 9 . ———. 2010 . “ Carbon Management: A Gift of Time? ” Oxford Literary Review 32 ( 1...

... brief, pointed, and bestselling Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (Methuen). Although a comparative study assessing key figures of French and American feminisms, the book became known for criticizing the essentialism of the American wing and for bringing news...

... (Taylor & Francis, 2005). Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and has published widely on nineteenth century American literature and literary theory. He has been director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the past two years. Rita...

... comments on politics as well as on more specialized pursuits like literary theory. His new book, What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (Norton, 2006), takes on the conservative backlash against liberalism and defends the humanities...

... contributor to the magazine Internazionale and the supplement to La Repubblica, Il Venerdì di Repubblica. Yumna Siddiqi is associate professor of English at Middlebury Col- lege, where she specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, dias- pora and migration studies, and literary theory. Her book...

.... Violence: Thinking without Banisters. Cambridge: Polity. Bowie, Andrew. 2013. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy. Cambridge: Polity. Camus, Albert. 2013. Algerian Chronicles. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Castle, Gregory. 2013. The Literary Theory...

... on modernist culture, the history of the novel, and literary theory. He is the author of Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (2012) as well as of recent or forthcoming articles 178 the minnesota review in German Studies Review, Modernism/modernity, and Novel...

..., was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2006. Robin J. Sowards is Assistant Professor of English at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. He is currently at work on two projects, one on Chomsky and literary theory, the other on materialism and theology in Browning and Hopkins. John H. Summers...