...Stanimir Panayotov Stanimir Panayotov Speculum of the Pruning-Scissors (on Katerina Kolozova and Eileen A. Joy, eds., After the “Speculative Turn”: Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism) After ten years of biting the dust of speculative realism (hereafter SR), scholars are now...

... about genuine value precisely because they have attended so closely to the markets structuring cultural production. What ultimately stands out in recent scholarship on economics and literature is its turn away from complex accounts of the nature of literary form and its turn toward considerations...

... of Minnesota P , 1998 . Woodmansee Martha Osteen Mark , eds. The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics . London : Routledge , 1999 . Omaar Hena The Global Turn in Postcolonial Literary Studies (on Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C...

...Andrew Cole Andrew Cole Introduction The Medieval Turn in Theory Remember when theory came to town? You could spill your coffee about it —​what with all the buzz in the humanities in North America about the new interpretive models, all that excited talk about gender, class...

... . Haisman 163 Alice Haisman The Biocultural Turn (on Marquard Smith and Joanna Morra, The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Future to a Biocultural Present [Cambridge: MIT P, 2006]; Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science...

... : Thames and Hudson . Lind Maria . 2011 . “The Collaborative Turn.” In Maria Lind: Selected Writing , edited by Wood Brian Kuan , 177 – 204 . Berlin : Sternberg . Melis Liesbeth Seijdel Jorinde , eds. 2009 . A Precarious Existence: Vulnerability in the Public Domain...

...John Marsh © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 John Marsh Criticism in the Iron Mills: New Working-Class Studies and the Class Turn (on Gavin Jones, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008]; John Russo...

...Phyllis Klein Copyright © 2020 Phyllis Klein 2020 Phyllis Klein It Was the Tide Turning It was the slip of paper he left on the table with the note saying where he d be and when he d return. Just the basic information about a day set up to thrum like any other. And the heart he d drawn...

...Toni Thomas © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 the minnesota review Toni Thomas My Mother’s Body Turns Traitor on Her til she doesn’t recognize herself anymore curtains the bathroom mirror scissors herself out of family photograph...

...David Dodd Lee © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 the minnesota review David Dodd Lee Turning Seventeen (Muskegon, 1976) The mist off the river mixed with the smoke And made the wine glow. Her fingers were soft. They jumped at the tops of my...

...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...

....” Starting in the early 1990s, however, a deep shift occurred in the way the body was interpreted. A new movement cast tremendous doubt on the hegemony of language and instead advocated a performative, pictorial, and affective approach — the so-called material turn — which encompassed all...

...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...

..., vision, and speculation—turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical power. Such a literacy would be an impersonal kind of literacy, a literacy for which poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the domain of what is here called—in distinction to atom time—atomic time...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... that is neither purely literary nor purely political in nature but, rather, explores and examines inscription and media themselves. Turning in its final moments to contemporary Insta-poetry, the article ultimately considers the subjectivities and socialities enabled by print materiality, from typewritten text...

...Kathleen Biddick Kathleen Biddick questions the political-theological turn in contemporary political philosophy with its focus on efforts to “deconstruct Christianity.” She argues that the Christian institutional imaginary (inaugurated by Paul’s ekklesia and adumbrated by the medieval management...

... Chinese intellectuals, whose identity as such has already transformed beyond recognition. China’s global soft power and discourse power campaign may ultimately turn out to be a self-celebratory extravaganza bereft of real substance. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Works Cited Abrahamsen Eric...

... that the Anthropocene can best be understood as a form of writing, a process by which humankind inscribes permanent messages into the geological, climatological, and biochemical records of our planet and is forced, in turn, to study those records for messages pertaining to its future. It discusses the relationship...

...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...